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1994 Masters (snooker)

Professional non-ranking snooker tournament, Feb 1994

Field	Value
tournament_name	1994 Benson & Hedges Masters
dates
venue	Wembley Conference Centre
location	London
country	England
organisation	WPBSA
format	Non-ranking event
Total prize fund	£415,000
winners_share	£115,000
highest_break	Alan McManus (132)
winner	Alan McManus
runner_up	Stephen Hendry
score	9–8
previous	1993
next	1995

http://www.cuetracker.net/Tournaments/Masters/1994/02
:Triggered by \bcuetracker\.net\b on the local blacklist|bot=Cyberbot II|invisible=false}} The 1994 Masters (officially the 1994 Benson & Hedges Masters) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 6 and 13 February 1994 at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, England.

Defending champion Stephen Hendry met Alan McManus in the final. Hendry had won the previous five Masters tournaments and was undefeated in 23 matches since making his debut in 1989. By comparison McManus had lost all six of the important finals he had contested since his first final, the 1992 Asian Open. The previous week he had lost to Steve Davis in the final of the Welsh Open. McManus won the first three frames, but Hendry won the next three to level the match, including a break of 115 in frame 5, Hendry's first century of the tournament. McManus won the 7th frame to take a 4–3 lead at the end of the afternoon session. Hendry had breaks of 80, 49, 62 and 58 to win four of the first five frames in the evening and take a 7–5 lead. McManus had missed a simple black to lose frame 10 after he had needed three snookers. McManus levelled the match again by winning the next two frames before losing frame 15 and winning a tense frame 16. In the deciding frame Hendry missed an ambitious plant after which McManus made a 76 break, Hendry conceding with only 59 on the table. McManus won the first prize of £115,000.

Field

Stephen Hendry, defending champion and World Champion was the number 1 seed. Places were allocated to the top 16 players in the world rankings. Players seeded 15 and 16 played in the wild-card round against the winner of the qualifying event, Ronnie O'Sullivan (ranked 57), and Peter Ebdon (ranked 21), who was the wild-card selection. Peter Ebdon, David Roe and 18-year-old Ronnie O'Sullivan were making their debuts in the Masters.

Wild-card round

In the preliminary round, the qualifier and wild-card players played the 15th and 16th seeds:

Match	Date	Score
WC1	Sunday 6 February	Dennis Taylor (15)
WC2	Monday 7 February	David Roe (16)

Main draw

Final

6	50+ breaks	4

Qualifying

Ronnie O'Sullivan won the qualifying tournament, known as the 1993 Benson & Hedges Championship at the time which took place in Edinburgh between 6 and 10 November 1993.

Century breaks

Total: 7

132 Alan McManus
130, 104 James Wattana
119 Ken Doherty
115 Stephen Hendry
113, 112 Peter Ebdon

Peter Ebdon's 112 was scored in the wild-card round.

References

(14 February 1994). "Big Mac – Alan's a Master". Daily Mirror.
Yates, Phil. (8 February 1994). "Nervous Foulds recaptured art of winning". The Times.
"1994 Masters Results". Snooker Database.
"The Masters". Snooker Scene.
Yates, Phil. (14 February 1994). "McManus edges out Hendry to claim first title". The Times.
(14 February 1994). "McManus arrives: Benson and Hedges Masters". The Independent.
Turner, Chris. "Benson & Hedges Championship, Masters Qualifying Tournament". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive.
"1994 Masters". CueTracker - Snooker Results and Statistics Database.

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