2000 Pontins Professional Explained

Tournament Name:2000 Pontins Professional
Venue:Pontin's
Location:Prestatyn
Country:Wales
Organisation:WPBSA
Format:Non-Ranking event
Highest Break: Jimmy White (122)
Winner: Darren Morgan
Runner Up: Jimmy White
Score:9–2
Previous:1999
Next:Last

The 2000 Pontins Professional was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place in May 2000 in Prestatyn, Wales.

The tournament featured eight professional players. The quarter-final matches were contested over the best of 9 frames, the semi-finals best of eleven and the final best of seventeen.[1]

The 2000 tournament was the twenty-seventh and final edition of the Pontins Professional, the series being discontinued thereafter.[2]

Darren Morgan won the event,by defeating Jimmy White 9–2 in the final.[3]

Main draw

Results from the tournament are shown below.[1]

Final

Final: Best of 17 frames.
Pontins, Prestatyn, Wales, 20 May 2000.
Jimmy White
2–9Darren Morgan
44–72, 49–77 (61), 33–70, 0–119 (119), 70–14, 0–76 (65), 7–104 (77), 43–86, 102–16 (101), 0–111 (80), 0–76 (75)
101Highest break119
1Century breaks1
150+ breaks6

Century breaks

Century breaks from the tournament are shown below.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Morgan wins Pontins professional title . Snooker Scene . July 2000 . 8–9.
  2. Web site: Brief History of the Pontins Open and Professional. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. 14 November 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120228200841/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pontins.html. 28 February 2012.
  3. News: Darren deja vu . 18 May 2000 . Coventry Telegraph . 85.