1992 Masters (snooker)

The 1992 Masters (officially the 1992 Benson & Hedges Masters) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 2 and 9 February 1992 at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, England.

1992 Benson & Hedges Masters

Tournament information
Dates	2–9 February 1992 (1992-02-02 – 1992-02-09)
Venue	Wembley Conference Centre
City	London
Country	England
Organisation	WPBSA
Format	Non-ranking event
Highest break	Jimmy White (ENG) (139)
Final
Champion	Stephen Hendry (SCO)
Runner-up	John Parrott (ENG)
Score	9–4
← 1991 1993 →

Stephen Hendry retained his title by beating John Parrott 9–4 in the final. This was Parrott's last of his three masters finals, he would retire without winning the event.

Field

Defending champion Stephen Hendry 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, Ken Doherty (ranked 51), and James Wattana (ranked 20), who was the wild-card selection. Ken Doherty and Tony Jones were making their debuts in the Masters.

Wild-card round

In the preliminary round, the wild-card players plays the 15th and 16th seeds:^[1][2]

Match	Date		Score
WC1	Monday 3 February	Tony Jones (ENG) (15)	4–5	Ken Doherty (IRL)
WC2	Sunday 2 February	Tony Knowles (ENG) (16)	1–5	James Wattana (THA)

Main draw

^[1][2]

	Last 16 Best of 9 frames					Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames					Semi-finals Best of 11 frames					Final Best of 17 frames
	1	Stephen Hendry (SCO)	5
	14	Martin Clark (ENG)	0
						1	Stephen Hendry	5
						12	Dean Reynolds	1
	8	Mike Hallett (ENG)	3
	12	Dean Reynolds (ENG)	5
											1	Stephen Hendry	6
											4	Jimmy White	4
	5	Gary Wilkinson (ENG)	2
	13	Alain Robidoux (CAN)	5
						13	Alain Robidoux	3
						4	Jimmy White	5
	4	Jimmy White (ENG)	5
	10	Doug Mountjoy (WAL)	4
																1	Stephen Hendry	9
																2	John Parrott	4
	3	Steve Davis (ENG)	5
	9	Dennis Taylor (NIR)	4
						3	Steve Davis	4
						6	Neal Foulds	5
	6	Neal Foulds (ENG)	5
	11	Terry Griffiths (WAL)	3
											6	Neal Foulds	3
											2	John Parrott	6
	7	Steve James (ENG)	1
		James Wattana (THA)	5
							James Wattana	3
						2	John Parrott	5
	2	John Parrott (ENG)	5
		Ken Doherty (IRL)	1

Final

Final: Best of 17 frames. Referee: Alan Chamberlain Wembley Conference Centre, London, England, 9 February 1992.
Stephen Hendry  Scotland	9–4	John Parrott  England
First session: 110–0 (81), 56–50, 64–22, 136–0 (136), 58–68, 49–61, 77–32 (67), 64–38, 71–11, 1–119 (81), 6–62, 91–1 (91), 97–0
136	Highest break	81
1	Century breaks	0
4	50+ breaks	1

Qualifying

Ken Doherty won the qualifying tournament, known as the 1991 Benson & Hedges Championship at the time.^[3]

Century breaks

Total: 8

• 139 – Jimmy White
• 136, 118 – Stephen Hendry
• 130, 105 – James Wattana
• 119 – Gary Wilkinson
• 114 – John Parrott
• 101 – Steve Davis

James Wattana's 130 was scored in the wild-card round.

References

1. "1992 Masters Results". Snooker Database. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
2. "The Masters". Snooker Scene. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
3. Turner, Chris. "Benson & Hedges Championship, Masters Qualifying Tournament". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2010.