Tournament Name: | Skoda Grand Prix |
Venue: | Crowtree Centre |
Location: | Sunderland |
Country: | England |
Organisation: | WPBSA |
Format: | Ranking event |
Total Prize Fund: | £330,000 |
Winners Share: | £60,000 |
Highest Break: | (138) |
Score: | 9–5 |
Previous: | 1994 |
Next: | 1996 |
The 1995 Skoda Grand Prix was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16–29 October 1995 at the Crowtree Centre in Sunderland, England.[1]
Stephen Hendry defeated defending champion John Higgins 9–5 in a rather scrappy final.__TOC__
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[1] Winner: £60,000
Runner up: £32,000
Semi-finalists: £16,000
Quarter-finalists: £9,050
Last 16: £4,550
Last 32: £2,600
Last 64: £1,900
Stage one High Break: £3,600
Stage two High Break: £5,000
Total: £330,000
Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Alan Chamberlain Crowtree Centre, Sunderland, England, 29 October 1995. | |||
John Higgins (1) | 5–9 | Stephen Hendry (2) | |
Afternoon: 47–76, 57–22, 34–79 (54), 66–43, 75–55 (Higgins 55), 0–64 (58), 3–66, 10–69 (60) Evening: 72–55, 20–98 (55), 56–63 (Higgins 56, Hendry 53), 71–64 (Hendry 51) 8–100 (87), 0–117 (73) | |||
56 | Highest break | 87 | |
0 | Century breaks | 0 | |
2 | 50+ breaks | 8 |