2000 Pontins Professional
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 13–20 May 2000 |
| Venue | Pontin's |
| City | Prestatyn |
| Country | Wales |
| Organisation | WPBSA |
| Format | Non-Ranking event |
| Highest break |  Jimmy White (122) |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Darren Morgan |
| Runner-up | Jimmy White |
| Score | 9–2 |
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The 2000 Pontins Professional was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place in May 2000 in Prestatyn, Wales.
The tournament featured eight professional players. The quarter-final matches were contested over the best of 9 frames, the semi-finals best of eleven and the final best of seventeen.
The 2000 tournament was the twenty-seventh and final edition of the Pontins Professional, the series being discontinued thereafter.
Darren Morgan won the event, by defeating Jimmy White 9–2 in the final.
Main draw
Results from the tournament are shown below.
| Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 17 frames | ||||||||||||
| Jimmy White
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| Martin Clark
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Jimmy White
| 6 | |||||||||||||
| Matthew Stevens
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Matthew Stevens
| 5 | |||||||||||||
 Ken Doherty
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Jimmy White
| 2 | |||||||||||||
| Darren Morgan
| 9 | |||||||||||||
| Darren Morgan
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| Mark Williams
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Darren Morgan
| 6 | |||||||||||||
| Paul Hunter
| 4 | |||||||||||||
| Paul Hunter
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| Stephen Lee
| 3 | |||||||||||||
Final
| Final: Best of 17 frames. Pontins, Prestatyn, Wales, 20 May 2000. | ||
| Jimmy White England |
2–9 | Darren Morgan Wales |
| 44–72, 49–77 (61), 33–70, 0–119 (119), 70–14, 0–76 (65), 7–104 (77), 43–86, 102–16 (101), 0–111 (80), 0–76 (75) | ||
| 101 | Highest break | 119 |
| 1 | Century breaks | 1 |
| 1 | 50+ breaks | 6 |
Century breaks
Century breaks from the tournament are shown below.
- 122, 101, 101 – Jimmy White
- 119 – Darren Morgan
- 116 – Matthew Stevens
- 106 – Paul Hunter
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Morgan wins Pontins professional title". Snooker Scene. July 2000. pp. 8–9.
- ↑ "Brief History of the Pontins Open and Professional". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 28 February 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ↑ "Darren deja vu". Coventry Telegraph. 18 May 2000. p. 85.