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1993 King's Cup
The 1993 King's Cup was an invitational non-ranking snooker tournament held in Bangkok in December 1993. James Wattana won the tournament by defeating Darren Morgan Darren Morgan (born 3 May 1966) is a Welsh former professional snooker player who now competes as an amateur. Morgan won the World Amateur Championship in 1987 and played on the professional main tour from 1988 until 2006. He earned just ov ... 8–3 in the final. Round-robin groups were held to produce qualifiers for the knockout stage. Suriya Suwannasing made the highest break of the tournament, 110, during the group stages. Morgan led 2–0 and 3–1 in the final, before Wattana won seven consecutive frames for victory. Main draw Players in bold denote match winners, and players with an asterisk were amateurs. References {{Snooker season 1993/1994 King's Cup (snooker) 1993 in snooker 1993 in Thai sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's Cup (snooker)
The King's Cup was a series of invitational snooker tournaments staged in Bangkok, Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ... between 1990 and 1994, and was an event made for television in Thailand and held in the studios of their Channel 9 station just before Christmas. The tournament invited sixteen players, with a majority being Asian, and divided them into four groups of three. Four players were exempted until the quarter-finals, at which point they joined the group winners. Winners References {{snooker tournaments King's Cup (snooker) Snooker non-ranking competitions Recurring sporting events established in 1991 Recurring events disestablished in 1994 Defunct snooker competitions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated population of 10.539 million as of 2020, 15.3 percent of the country's population. Over 14 million people (22.2 percent) lived within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region at the 2010 census, making Bangkok an extreme primate city, dwarfing Thailand's other urban centres in both size and importance to the national economy. Bangkok traces its roots to a small trading post during the Ayutthaya Kingdom in the 15th century, which eventually grew and became the site of two capital cities, Thonburi Kingdom, Thonburi in 1768 and Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932), Rattanakosin in 1782. Bangkok was at the heart of the modernization of Siam, later renamed Thailand, during the late-19th century, as the country faced pressures from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker World Rankings
The snooker world rankings are the official system of ranking professional snooker players to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments on the World Snooker Tour. The ranking lists are maintained by the sport's governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Each player's world ranking is based on their performances in designated ranking tournaments over the preceding two years. The world ranking list is updated after every ranking tournament. The system of world rankings was inaugurated in the 1976–77 season. Until the 2013–14 season, the point tariffs for each tournament were set by the governing body, but the rankings transitioned to a prize money list in the 2014–15 season. Background The rankings determine the seedings for tournaments on the World Snooker Tour, organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), and who gets an invite to prestigious invitational events. Tournaments open to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wattana
James Wattana (; born January 17, 1970, as วัฒนา ภู่โอบอ้อม ''Wattana Pu-Ob-Orm'', then renamed รัชพล ภู่โอบอ้อม ''Ratchapol Pu-Ob-Orm'' in 2003) is a Thai former professional snooker player. A professional between 1989 and 2008, and from 2009 to 2020, Wattana reached his highest ranking position – world number 3 – for the 1994–95 season. He has won three ranking tournaments, the 1992 Strachan Open and the Thailand Open in 1994 and 1995, and has finished as the runner-up in a further five ranking events. He twice reached the semi-finals of the World Snooker Championship, in 1993 and 1997. When he was defeated in the semi-finals in 1993 by Jimmy White, it was only Wattana's second appearance in the final televised stages at the Crucible Theatre, his first being the previous year when he lost in the second round to the eventual winner Stephen Hendry. Having received two year invitational tour cards in 2014, 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Morgan
Darren Morgan (born 3 May 1966) is a Welsh former professional snooker player who now competes as an amateur. Morgan won the World Amateur Championship in 1987 and played on the professional main tour from 1988 until 2006. He earned just over £1 million in prize money, reached a high ranking of eight, and was ranked within the top 16 for six years despite never winning a ranking event. He compiled 111 in his career. Career Morgan was born in Newport, South Wales. His best achievements as a professional were to win the Irish Masters in 1996, beating Steve Davis 9–8 in the final, and he captained Wales to victory in the 1999 Nations Cup. He was also a semi-finalist in the 1994 World Championship, beating Mark King 10–5, Willie Thorne 13–12 and John Parrott 13–11 before losing to Jimmy White 9–16. He was also a quarter-finalist on three occasions, beating Ken Doherty and Ronnie O'Sullivan in 1996 and 1997 respectively at the Crucible. When he beat O'Sull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 King's Cup
The 1992 King's Cup was an invitational non-ranking snooker tournament held in Bangkok in December 1992. Nigel Bond won the tournament by defeating James Wattana James Wattana (; born January 17, 1970, as วัฒนา ภู่โอบอ้อม ''Wattana Pu-Ob-Orm'', then renamed รัชพล ภู่โอบอ้อม ''Ratchapol Pu-Ob-Orm'' in 2003) is a Thai former professional snooker pl ... 8–7 in the final. Sixteen players, a mixture of amateurs and professionals, were invited to compete. Four players were exempted to the quarter-final stage, where they each faced the winner of a qualifying group. In the final, Wattana took a 2–0 lead; Bond moved ahead for the first time at 5–4. Wattana was a from victory at 7–6, but Bond took the 14th frame and then recorded a of 106 in the to secure the title. Going into the tournament, Bond had been on a poor run of form. After winning the championship, Bond commented that the tournament was "a nice break from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 King's Cup ...
The 1994 King's Cup was an invitational non-ranking snooker tournament held in Bangkok in December 1994. Billy Snaddon won the tournament by defeating Noppadon Noppachorn 8–4 in the final. Round-robin groups were held to produce qualifiers for the knockout stage. Suriya Suwannasing made the highest break of the tournament, 120, during the group stages. Noppachorn led 3–1 in the final, before Snaddon won seven of the next eight frames for victory. Main draw Players in bold denote match winners. References {{Snooker season 1994/1995 King's Cup (snooker) King's Cup King's Cup King's Cup __NOTOC__ King's Cup (incl. translations), may refer to: Sports Football * Copa del Rey, Spanish for "King's Cup," the main national knockout tournament in men's football * King Cup (sometimes named King's Cup), Saudi Arabian men's football nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker Scene
''Snooker Scene'' is a monthly magazine about snooker and other cue sports. It was established by Clive Everton in 1972 from the amalgamation of the Billiards and Snooker Control Council's ''Billiards and Snooker'' and his own ''World Snooker''. Everton was editor until he retired in September 2022; the following month, it was announced that the magazine would be published by Curtis Sport, and with a new editor, Nick Metcalfe. History Everton had been the editor of ''Billiards and Snooker'' from the December 1966 issue until the February 1971 issue when he was succeeded by Doug Organ. According to Everton, he was sacked at the instigation of Jack Karnehm, the Chairman of the Billiards and Snooker Control Council (as the Billiards Association and Control Council had renamed itself) for "giving professionals publicity" by including picture of four professional players on the cover of ''Billiards and Snooker'' at a time when the Billiards and Snooker Control Council and the profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Round-robin Tournament
A round-robin tournament (or all-go-away-tournament) is a competition Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, indiv ... in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & C. Merriam Co), p.1980. A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, in which participants/teams are eliminated after a certain number of losses. Terminology The term ''round-robin'' is derived from the French term ''ruban'', meaning "ribbon". Over a long period of time, the term was Folk etymology, corrupted and idiomized to ''robin''. In a ''single round-robin'' schedule, each participant plays every other participant once. If each participant plays all others twice, this is freque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Murphy (snooker Player)
Stephen Murphy is an Irish former professional snooker player. Murphy was a professional player from 1989 to 1999. He reached the last 32 of the 1992 Snooker World championship. He lost 10–3 at the crucible to multiple world champion Stephen Hendry. In October 1996 Murphy represented Ireland at the World Cup. Three-man teams with one sub from all over the globe took part at the Armari Watergate Hotel in Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estima .... The Irish team consisted of Murphy along with Ken Doherty, Fergal O'Brien and Michael Judge as sub. Ireland beat Canada to earn a semi-final with England. The England team was made up of Peter Ebdon, Nigel Bond and Ronnie O'Sullivan but lost 10–9. Ireland faced a Scotland team of Hendry, John Higgins and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Yousaf (snooker Player)
Muhammad Yousaf ( ur, محمد یوسف, born 1952), also spelled as Mohammed Yousuf, is a Pakistani snooker player. He is the winner of the 1994 IBSF World Snooker Championship, 2006 IBSF World Masters Championship, and 1998 ACBS Asian Snooker Championship. Biography Yousaf was born in Mumbai, India and later migrated to Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Currently, he is resident in Lahore and coaches young snooker players in one of the largest snooker clubs of Pakistan, ''Dolphin Snooker Club'', situated in Chandni Chowk, Lahore, Pakistan. Career In 1994, at the IBSF World Snooker Championship at Johannesburg, he defeated Iceland’s Johannes R. Johanneson 11–9 to become the IBSF World Snooker Champion. In 2006, he beat Glen Wilkinson of Australia in Amman 5–4 to win the IBSF World Masters Championship in Jordan. He also competed at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. Achievements * 2006 IBSF World Masters Champion * 2002 Asian Champion * 2000 IBSF World Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Prince
Jason Prince (born 17 June 1970 from Derry) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player. Career Born in 1970, Prince turned professional in 1990, having beaten Fred Davis 10–5 to qualify. During his first season, he reached the last 16 of the 1990 Dubai Classic, leading Dean Reynolds 4–2 but losing 4–5, and defeated John Spencer 5–4 en route to the last 64 of the 1991 Classic; this was one of Spencer's final professional matches. Later that season, Prince beat Davis in qualifying for the 1991 World Championship, the 10–4 defeat for Davis coming near the end of a professional career which lasted sixty-two years, and went on to defeat Ray Reardon 10–5 in the next round; Reardon, who was Prince's favourite player as a child, never played another match in competition. As a result of his performances against Spencer, Davis and Reardon, Prince earned the nickname 'The Terminator', having ostensibly 'terminated' the careers of all three. Having shown promise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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