2000 Pontins Professional

2000 Pontins Professional

Tournament information
Dates	13–20 May 2000 (2000-05-13 – 2000-05-20)
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.[1]

The 2000 tournament was the twenty-seventh and final edition of the Pontins Professional, the series being discontinued thereafter.[2]

Darren Morgan won the event,by defeating Jimmy White 9–2 in the final.[3]

Main draw

Results from the tournament are shown below.[1]

	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.[1] 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.[1]

• 122, 101, 101 – Jimmy White
• 119 – Darren Morgan
• 116 – Matthew Stevens
• 106 – Paul Hunter

References

1. "Morgan wins Pontins professional title". Snooker Scene. July 2000. pp. 8–9.
2. "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.
3. "Darren deja vu". Coventry Telegraph. 18 May 2000. p. 85.