1988 World Matchplay (snooker)

The 1989 Everest World Matchplay was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place in December 1988 in Brentwood, England.

World Matchplay
Tournament information
Dates2–10 December 1988
VenueInternational Centre
CityBrentwood
CountryEngland
FormatNon-ranking event
Winner's share£100,000
Final
Champion Steve Davis
Runner-up John Parrott
Score9–5
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Established by Barry Hearn, this was the first World Matchplay tournament and was an invitation event for the top twelve players on the provisional ranking list. It was the first snooker event to offer a six-figure prize with the winner of the event sponsored by Everest, the double glazing company, receiving £100,000.[1]

Of the 12 players, the top eight seeds received a bye into the quarter finals. Steve Davis won the event, defeating John Parrott 9–5 in the final.[2]

Main draw
Round 1
Best of 17 frames		 Quarter-finals
Best of 17 frames		 Semi-finals
Best of 17 frames		 Final
Best of 17 frames
     
        Steve Davis 9  
Mike Hallett 9     Mike Hallett 2  
Willie Thorne 8       Steve Davis 9  
          Jimmy White 5  
        Jimmy White 9  
Terry Griffiths 9     Terry Griffiths 5  
Peter Francisco 7       Steve Davis 9
          John Parrott 5
        Stephen Hendry 9  
Dennis Taylor 9     Dennis Taylor 7  
Tony Knowles 7       Stephen Hendry 6  
          John Parrott 9  
        John Parrott 9      
Joe Johnson 9     Joe Johnson 7      
Cliff Thorburn 4  

Final
Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Len Ganley
Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, England, 10 December 1988.
Steve Davis
 England		 9–5 John Parrott
 England
First session: 120–7 (100), 66–47, 69-6, 61-51, 102–4 (62), 59–41, 25–73
Second session: 18–91 64), 0–139 (135), 77-0 (53), 92–25 (84), 0–86, 1-85, 73-21
100 Highest break 135
1 Century breaks 1
4 50+ breaks 2
gollark: Sure they can. Just apply penalties/taxes if you pollute stuff.
gollark: > Tell factories to produce 100K units of winter clothing and give them free choice of a variety of different accepted models.But then you don't know how much stuff each factory will need.
gollark: But a firm has the simple goal of "maximize profit", which makes all that way easier.
gollark: And you have to somehow merge the disagreements into some compromise version and it's all quite hard.
gollark: Anyway, the linear programming thing: just how do you assign values for millions of different end-product goods? If you have people vote on it, they'll probably only be remotely competent to decide on a summary or something, and the process of translating the summaries into full plans will probably involve someone making subjective decisions themselves and influencing the process.

References
  1. "World Matchplay". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 28 February 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  2. Hayton, Eric. Cuesport Book of Professional Snooker. p. 157.
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