1995 German Open (snooker)

1995 German Open 1995 12 3 1995 12 10 y Messe Frankfurt Frankfurt Germany WPBSA Ranking event £40,000 John Higgins SCO (139) John Higgins SCO Ken Doherty IRL 9–3 First 1996 The 1995 German Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 3 and 10 December 1995 at the Messe Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany. It was the first ranking event held in Germany. John Higgins won the inaugural event defeating Ken Doherty 9–3 in the final. Summary The tournament involved the top 16 players in the world ranking who were joined by 16 qualifiers and 4 wild-card players. The four lowest ranked qualifiers played the wild-card players, winning all their four matches and advancing to the last-32. Four of the top-16 players lost in the last-32 round, including Ronnie O'Sullivan and Jimmy White. Further top-ranked players were beaten in the last-16 stage, including Steve Davis, John Parrott and James Wattana. Tony Drago led Stephen Hendry 3–1 but Hendry then won the next four frames to win the match 5–3. Three Scots, Stephen Hendry, Alan McManus and John Higgins, won their quarter-final matches and were joined in the semi-finals by Ken Doherty. Hendry led Doherty 3–2 but Doherty then won the next four frames to win the match 6–5. In the other semi-final, Higgins beat McManus in the deciding frame after a break of 58. The final was level at three frame each before Higgins won the next six frames to win 9–3 and take the first prize of £40,000. Higgins made a break of 139 in the 11th frame of the final to win the high break prize of £5,000. Wildcard round The four lowest ranked qualifiers played four continental players, three from Germany and one from Belgium. Match Score WC1 Dave Finbow ENG 5–1 Yvan van Velthoven BEL WC2 Mark King ENG 5–0 Dieter Johns GER WC3 Chris Small SCO 5–0 Thomas Schweser GER WC4 Yasin Merchant IND 5–0 Peter Wagner GER Main draw German Open http://www.snookerscene.co.uk/page.php?id=20 Snooker Scene https://web.archive.org/web/20130124071707/http://www.snookerscene.co.uk/page.php?id=20 20 November 2017 2013-01-24German Open 1995 http://www.snooker.org/trn/9596/go_res.shtml Snooker.org 20 April 2012 29 November 2021 200 Last 32Best of 9 frames Last 16Best of 9 frames Quarter-finalsBest of 9 frames Semi-finalsBest of 11 frames FinalBest of 17 frames 1 Stephen Hendry SCO 5 Joe Swail NIR 2 14 Tony Drago MLT 5 Mick Price ENG 1 15 Terry Griffiths WAL 0 Rod Lawler ENG 5 5 James Wattana THA 5 Gary Wilkinson ENG 3 7 Jimmy White ENG 3 Steve James ENG 5 13 Dave Harold ENG 1 Mark Bennett WAL 5 9 Ken Doherty IRL 5 Dean Reynolds ENG 3 4 John Parrott ENG 5 Martin Clark ENG 2 3 Ronnie O'Sullivan ENG 3 Mark King ENG 5 11 John Higgins SCO 5 Chris Small SCO 2 12 Nigel Bond ENG 5 Willie Thorne ENG 0 8 Darren Morgan WAL 5 Billy Snaddon SCO 4 6 Alan McManus SCO 5 Mark Williams WAL 1 10 Peter Ebdon ENG 5 Yasin Merchant IND 1 16 David Roe ENG 5 Neal Foulds ENG 3 2 Steve Davis ENG 5 Dave Finbow ENG 1 1 SCO Stephen Hendry 5 14 MLT Tony Drago 3 ENG Rod Lawler 5 5 THA James Wattana 2   ENG Steve James 3 WAL Mark Bennett 5 9 IRL Ken Doherty 5 4 ENG John Parrott 4 ENG Mark King 3 11 SCO John Higgins 5 12 ENG Nigel Bond 1 8 WAL Darren Morgan 5 6 SCO Alan McManus 5 10 ENG Peter Ebdon 4 16 ENG David Roe 5 ENG Steve Davis 4 1 SCO Stephen Hendry 5 ENG Rod Lawler 3 WAL Mark Bennett 2 9 IRL Ken Doherty 5 11 SCO John Higgins 5 8 WAL Darren Morgan 4 6 SCO Alan McManus 5 16 ENG David Roe 3 1 SCO Stephen Hendry 3 9 IRL Ken Doherty 6 11 SCO John Higgins 6 6 SCO Alan McManus 5 9 IRL Ken Doherty 3 11 SCO John Higgins 9 Final Final: Best of 17 frames. Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, 10 December 1995. Ken Doherty (9) 3–9 John Higgins (11) 106–16 (105), 0–112 (70), 0–97 (97), 50–64 (50 Doherty), 55–8, 80–45 (80), 0–66, 10–73 (50), 42–77, 39–90 (50), 0–143 (139), 52–82 105 Highest break 139 1 Century breaks 1 5 50+ breaks 3 References Category:German Masters German Open (snooker) German Open (snooker) German Open (snooker) Category:Sports competitions in Frankfurt