The 1992 King's Cup was an invitational non-

ranking A ranking is a relationship between a set of items, often recorded in a list, such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than", or "ranked equal to" the second. In mathematics, this is known as a weak ...

snooker tournament held in

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in December 1992.

Nigel Bond Nigel Bond (born 15 November 1965) is an English retired professional snooker player. Bond competed on the main tour from 1989 to 2022, and was ranked within the world's top 16 players between 1992 and 1999, peaking at 5th for the 1996–97 ...

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 the main nookercircuit and the pressure...It was just the tonic I needed". He received £2,500 prize money.

Main draw

Players in bold denote match winners.

References

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King's Cup 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's Cup (Bahrain), the premier national knockout football tournament * King's ...

1990s in sport in Bangkok