2000 Premier League Snooker
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 8 January – 6 May 2000 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Organisation | Matchroom Sport |
| Format | Non-ranking event |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Stephen Hendry |
| Runner-up |  Mark Williams |
| Score | 9–5 |
← 1999 2001 → | |
The 2000 Altodigital.com Premier League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 8 January to 6 May 2000.
Stephen Hendry won in the final 9–5 against Mark Williams.[1]
Hendry made his 500th career century in his match against Ronnie O'Sullivan at Stirling on 2 April.[2]
League phase
[edit]| Ranking | HEN |
HIG |
WIL |
 OSU |
 FU |
WHI |
DAV |
Frame W-L |
Match W-D-L |
Pld-Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Hendry | x | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 30–18 | 4–1–1 | 6–9 |
| 2 | John Higgins | 5 | x | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 27–21 | 4–0–2 | 6–8 |
| 3 | Mark Williams | 4 | 3 | x | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 27–21 | 3–2–1 | 6–8 |
| 4 | Ronnie O'Sullivan | 2 | 5 | 4 | x | 4 | 4 | 7 | 26–22 | 2–3–1 | 6–7 |
| 5 | Marco Fu | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | x | 5 | 6 | 24–24 | 3–1–2 | 6–7 |
| 6 | Jimmy White | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | x | 4 | 18–30 | 0–2–4 | 6–2 |
| 7 | Steve Davis | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | x | 16–32 | 0–1–5 | 6–1 |
Top four qualified for the play-offs. If points were level then most frames won determined their positions. If two players had an identical record then the result in their match determined their positions. If that ended 4–4 then the player who got to four first was higher.[3]
- 8 January – Swansea Leisure Centre, Swansea, Wales
- Mark Williams 5–3 Steve Davis
- John Higgins 6–2 Jimmy White
- 9 January – Swansea Leisure Centre, Swansea, Wales
- John Higgins 5–3 Steve Davis
- Ronnie O'Sullivan 4–4 Jimmy White
- Stephen Hendry 4–4 Mark Williams
- 5 February – North Kesteven Leisure Centre, Lincoln, England
- Stephen Hendry 7–1 Marco Fu
- Ronnie O'Sullivan 4–4 Marco Fu
- Steve Davis 4–4 Jimmy White
- 6 February – North Kesteven Leisure Centre, Lincoln, England
- John Higgins 5–3 Mark Williams
- Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–3 John Higgins
- Stephen Hendry 5–3 Steve Davis
- 18 March – Cleethorpes Leisure Centre, Cleethorpes, England
- Mark Williams 4–4 Ronnie O'Sullivan
- Stephen Hendry 5–3 Jimmy White
- 19 March – Cleethorpes Leisure Centre, Cleethorpes, England
- Marco Fu 5–3 John Higgins
- Ronnie O'Sullivan 7–1 Steve Davis
- Marco Fu 5–3 Jimmy White
- 1 April – University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
- Mark Williams 5–3 Marco Fu
- John Higgins 5–3 Stephen Hendry
- 2 April – University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
- Marco Fu 6–2 Steve Davis
- Mark Williams 6–2 Jimmy White
- Stephen Hendry 6–2 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Play-offs
[edit]5–6 May – Charter Hall, Colchester, England[3]
| Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 17 frames | ||||||||
| 1 | Stephen Hendry
| 6 | |||||||
| 4 | Ronnie O'Sullivan
| 2 | |||||||
| 1 | Stephen Hendry
| 9 | |||||||
| 3 | Mark Williams
| 5 | |||||||
| 2 | John Higgins
| 3 | |||||||
| 3 | Mark Williams
| 6 | |||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Premier/Matchroom League, Matchroom Championship League". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012.
- ^ "Williams awarded top honour". BBC Sport. 3 December 2000.
- ^ a b "2000 Results". premierleaguesnooker.matchroomcms.com. Matchroom Sport. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2011.