1994 Masters (snooker)
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 6–13 February 1994 |
| Venue | Wembley Conference Centre |
| City | London |
| Country | England |
| Organisation(s) | WPBSA |
| Format | Non-ranking event |
| Highest break | 132 |
| Final | |
| Champion |
 Alan McManus |
| Runner-up |
Stephen Hendry |
| Score | 9–8 |
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The 1994 Benson & Hedges Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 6 and 13 February 1994 at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, England.
Alan McManus won in the final 9–8 against Stephen Hendry.
Field
Stephen Hendry, defending champion and World Champion was the number 1 seed. Places were allocated to the top 16 players in the world rankings. Players seeded 15 and 16 played in the wild-card round against the winner of the qualifying event, Ronnie O'Sullivan (ranked 57), and Peter Ebdon (ranked 21), who was the wild-card selection. Peter Ebdon, Ronnie O'Sullivan and David Roe were making their debuts in the Masters.
Wild-card round
In the preliminary round, the qualifier and wild-card players played the 15th and 16th seeds:[1][2]
| Match | Date | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WC1 | Sunday 6 February |  Dennis Taylor (15) |
5–1 |  Ronnie O'Sullivan |
| WC2 | Monday 7 February | David Roe (16) |
1–5 | Peter Ebdon |
Main draw
| Last 16 Best of 9 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 17 frames | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Stephen Hendry
| 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 10 |  Darren Morgan
| 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Stephen Hendry
| 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Steve James
| 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Terry Griffiths
| 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Steve James
| 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Stephen Hendry
| 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 |  James Wattana
| 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | James Wattana
| 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Martin Clark
| 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | James Wattana
| 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Peter Ebdon
| 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Steve Davis
| 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Peter Ebdon
| 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Stephen Hendry
| 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Alan McManus
| 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Jimmy White
| 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 11 |  Ken Doherty
| 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Ken Doherty
| 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Alan McManus
| 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Alan McManus
| 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Nigel Bond
| 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Alan McManus
| 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Neal Foulds
| 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Willie Thorne
| 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 15 | Dennis Taylor
| 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 15 | Dennis Taylor
| 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Neal Foulds
| 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | John Parrott
| 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Neal Foulds
| 5 | |||||||||||||||||
Qualifying
Ronnie O'Sullivan won the qualifying tournament, known as the 1993 Benson & Hedges Championship at the time.[3]
Century breaks
- 132 Alan McManus
- 130, 104 James Wattana
- 119 Ken Doherty
- 115 Stephen Hendry
- 113, 112 Peter Ebdon
Peter Ebdon's 112 was scored in the wild-card round.
References
- 1 2 "1994 Masters Results". Snooker Database. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- 1 2 "The Masters". Snooker Scene. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ↑ Turner, Chris. "Benson & Hedges Championship, Masters Qualifying Tournament". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- ↑ "1994 Masters". CueTracker - Snooker Results and Statistics Database. Retrieved 19 January 2015.