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Masters Qualifying Event

Snooker tournament

Field	Value
tournament_name	Masters Qualifying Event
venue	World Snooker Centre
location	Prestatyn
country	Wales
establishment	1990
organisation	World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
format	Non-ranking event
final year	2009
Final Champion	ENG Rory McLeod

The Masters Qualifying Event was a professional snooker tournament, which ran from 1990 to 2009. Each season, the winner of the event was awarded a wild-card to play at the Masters.

History

At the 1990 Masters two wild-cards were added to the tournament and the following season a qualifying tournament was established for one of these wild-cards. The tournament was named Benson & Hedges Championship. The event was held in Glasgow and Alan McManus became the inaugural champion.

In the 1992/1993 season it became one of the minor-ranking events along with the three Strachan Challenge events. These events carried one-tenth of the ranking points of other tournaments. but most of the top players did not enter, so it lost ranking status from the next season. The event was then moved to Edinburgh in 1994/1995 for three years, to Malvern in 1997/1998 for four years and to Mansfield in 2001/2002 for two years.

In 2003/2004 the event was renamed to Masters Qualifying Event due to restrictions on tobacco advertising in the United Kingdom. The event was held in Prestatyn; the top 16 players were excluded from the event and other non-participating Main Tour members were replaced by top players from the Challenge Tour Order of Merit. After a season away, the Masters Qualifying Event returned to the calendar in 2005/2006, and was moved to the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield next season for three years. The event was last held in Prestatyn during the 2009/10 season.

There has been five official maximum breaks during the history of the tournament. Karl Burrows made the first against Adrian Rosa in 1999. The second was made in 2000 by David McLellan against Steve Meakin, the third in 2001 by Shaun Murphy against Adrian Rosa and the fourth in 2002 by Tony Drago against Stuart Bingham. The last came at the 2005 event by Bingham against Marcus Campbell. There was one further maximum break by Terry Murphy against Robert Thallon but it was not officially ratified due to the match being played on one of the outside non-templated tables.

Winners

Year	Winner	Runner-up	Final score	Season
1990	SCO Alan McManus	THA James Wattana	9–5	1990/91
1991	IRL Ken Doherty	WAL Darren Morgan	9–3	1991/92
1992	SCO Chris Small	SCO Alan McManus	9–1	1992/93
1993	ENG Ronnie O'Sullivan	SCO John Lardner	9–6	1993/94
1994	WAL Mark Williams	ENG Rod Lawler	9–5	1994/95
1995	WAL Matthew Stevens	SCO Paul McPhillips	9–3	1995/96
1996	ENG Brian Morgan	SCO Drew Henry	9–8	1996/97
1997	ENG Andy Hicks	WAL Paul Davies	9–6	1997/98
1998	ENG David Gray	ENG Dave Harold	9–6	1998/99
1999	ENG Ali Carter	ENG Simon Bedford	9–4	1999/00
2000	ENG Shaun Murphy	ENG Stuart Bingham	9–7	2000/01
2001	WAL Ryan Day	SCO Hugh Abernethy	9–5	2001/02
2002	ENG Mark Davis	CYP Mehmet Husnu	9–6	2002/03
2003	AUS Neil Robertson	WAL Dominic Dale	6–5	2003/04
2005	ENG Stuart Bingham	ENG Ali Carter	6–3	2005/06
2006	ENG Stuart Bingham	ENG Mark Selby	6–2	2006/07
2007	ENG Barry Hawkins	NOR Kurt Maflin	6–4	2007/08
2008	ENG Judd Trump	ENG Mark Joyce	6–1	2008/09
2009	ENG Rory McLeod	ENG Andrew Higginson	6–1	2009/10

References

Turner, Chris. "Benson & Hedges Championship, Masters Qualifying Event". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive.
"Strachan Open, Strachan Challenges". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive.
Turner, Chris. "Maximum Breaks". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive.
Kastner, Hugo. "SNOOKER – Spieler, Regeln & Rekorde (July 2012 Update)".
"The 147 Club". Global Snooker Centre.

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