2000 Pontins Professional
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 13–20 May 2000 |
| Venue | Pontin's |
| City | Prestatyn |
| Country | Wales |
| Organisation | WPBSA |
| Format | Non-Ranking event |
| Highest break |  Jimmy White (122) |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Darren Morgan |
| Runner-up | Jimmy White |
| Score | 9–2 |
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The 2000 Pontins Professional was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place in May 2000 in Prestatyn, Wales.
The tournament featured eight professional players. The quarter-final matches were contested over the best of 9 frames, the semi-finals best of eleven and the final best of seventeen.[1]
The 2000 tournament was the twenty-seventh and final edition of the Pontins Professional, the series being discontinued thereafter.[2]
Darren Morgan won the event,by defeating Jimmy White 9–2 in the final.[3]
Main draw
[edit]Results from the tournament are shown below.[1]
| Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 17 frames | ||||||||||||
| Jimmy White
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| Martin Clark
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Jimmy White
| 6 | |||||||||||||
| Matthew Stevens
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Matthew Stevens
| 5 | |||||||||||||
 Ken Doherty
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Jimmy White
| 2 | |||||||||||||
| Darren Morgan
| 9 | |||||||||||||
| Darren Morgan
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| Mark Williams
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Darren Morgan
| 6 | |||||||||||||
| Paul Hunter
| 4 | |||||||||||||
| Paul Hunter
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| Stephen Lee
| 3 | |||||||||||||
Final
[edit]| Final: Best of 17 frames.[1] Pontins, Prestatyn, Wales, 20 May 2000. | ||
| Jimmy White England
|
2–9 | Darren Morgan Wales
|
| 44–72, 49–77 (61), 33–70, 0–119 (119), 70–14, 0–76 (65), 7–104 (77), 43–86, 102–16 (101), 0–111 (80), 0–76 (75) | ||
| 101 | Highest break | 119 |
| 1 | Century breaks | 1 |
| 1 | 50+ breaks | 6 |
Century breaks
[edit]Century breaks from the tournament are shown below.[1]
- 122, 101, 101 – Jimmy White
- 119 – Darren Morgan
- 116 – Matthew Stevens
- 106 – Paul Hunter
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Morgan wins Pontins professional title". Snooker Scene. July 2000. pp. 8–9.
- ^ "Brief History of the Pontins Open and Professional". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 28 February 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "Darren deja vu". Coventry Telegraph. 18 May 2000. p. 85.