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1991 Masters (snooker)

Professional non-ranking snooker tournament, Feb 1991

Field	Value
tournament_name	1991 Benson & Hedges Masters
dates
venue	Wembley Conference Centre
location	London
country	England
organisation	WPBSA
format	Non-ranking event
Total prize fund	£350,000
winners_share	£100,000
highest_break	Dennis Taylor (135)
winner	Stephen Hendry
runner_up	Mike Hallett
score	9–8
previous	1990
next	1992

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:Triggered by \bcuetracker\.net\b on the local blacklist|bot=Cyberbot II|invisible=false}} The 1991 Masters (officially the 1991 Benson & Hedges Masters) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 3 and 10 February 1991 at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, England. The highest break of the tournament was a 135 compiled by Dennis Taylor, for which he earned £7,500.

In the final, defending champion Stephen Hendry performed what is considered to be one of the greatest comebacks in snooker history, when he defeated Mike Hallett 9–8, after trailing 0–7 and 2–8 earlier in the match.

World number 1 Hendry went into the final as a firm 1/6 favourite, and with 9–3 Hendry being the most favoured score with the bookies, but world number 7 Hallett played one of the most dominant snooker sessions by an underdog to win all 7 frames of the afternoon session to take a 7–0 lead. In the first frame of the evening session, Hallett missed the final pink that would have made it 8–0, with Hendry then potting the pink and black to win his first frame of the match. Hendry reduced his arrears to 2–7, but then Hallett made it 8–2 and just one frame from victory. With the Masters title in his sights, Hallett just needed to pot the final pink and black in the eleventh frame to win the match, but he narrowly missed the pink with the rest, allowing Hendry to pot the pink to win the frame and reduce his arrears to 3–8. Despite Hallett having numerous chances in the following six frames, including in the last frame where Hallett led until the last few balls, Hendry eventually made a historic recovery to win 9–8.

Places in the tournament were allocated to the top 16 players in the world rankings. World number one Stephen Hendry was the number 1 seed. Players seeded 15 and 16 (Tony Meo and Alain Robidoux) competed in the wild-card round against Alan McManus, who was the winner of the qualifying event, and Gary Wilkinson (ranked 19), who was the wild-card selection. Martin Clark (ranked 12), Alan McManus, Alain Robidoux, and Gary Wilkinson were making their Masters debuts.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: £100,000
Runner-up: £50,000
Semi-final: £23,000
Quarter-final: £15,000
Last 16: £9,000
Last 18 (wild-cards): £6,000
Highest break: £10,000
Total: £350,000

Wild-card round

title=1991 Masters Results	url=http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/EventResults.aspx?EventKey=81	publisher=Snooker Database	accessdate=5 May 2011	archive-date=7 October 2011	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007103103/http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/EventResults.aspx?EventKey=81	url-status=dead}}	Date	Score
WC1	Sunday 3 February	Tony Meo (15)
WC2	Monday 4 February	Alain Robidoux (16)

Main draw

Final

3	50+ breaks	4

Qualifying Event

Alan McManus won the qualifying tournament, known as the 1990 Benson & Hedges Satellite Championship at the time beating James Wattana 9–5 in the final to qualify for the main tournament at Wembley. The tournament was played at the Masters Club in Glasgow between 1 and 6 December 1990.

Century breaks

Total: 9

135 Dennis Taylor
131, 117, 114 Stephen Hendry
125 Mike Hallett
107 Doug Mountjoy
108, 101 Jimmy White
101 Steve James

References

(30 January 1991). "Hendry red-hot favourite for treble". Aberdeen Evening Express.
Vedat, Ismail. (17 January 2014). "Snooker's greatest comeback: 'It took me six months to get over it'". [[ESPN in the United Kingdom.
(1991). "Benson and Hedges Snooker Year". Pelham Books.
"1991 Masters Results". Snooker Database.
"The Masters". Snooker Scene.
Turner, Chris. "Benson & Hedges Championship, Masters Qualifying Tournament". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive.
"1991 Masters". CueTracker - Snooker Results and Statistics Database.

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