2000 Pontins Professional
{{Infobox individual snooker tournament
|tournament_name=2000 Pontins Professional
|logo=
|dates={{Start and end dates|2000|05|13|2000|05|20|df=y}}
|venue=Pontin's
|location=Prestatyn
|country=Wales
|organisation=WPBSA
|format=Non-Ranking event
|Total prize fund=
|winners_share=
|highest_break={{flagicon|ENG}} Jimmy White (122)
|winner={{flagicon|WAL}} Darren Morgan
|runner_up={{flagicon|ENG}} Jimmy White
|score=9–2
|previous=1999
|next=Last}}
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.{{cite magazine |title=Morgan wins Pontins professional title |magazine=Snooker Scene |date=July 2000 |pages=8–9}}
The 2000 tournament was the twenty-seventh and final edition of the Pontins Professional, the series being discontinued thereafter.{{cite web|title=Brief History of the Pontins Open and Professional|url=http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pontins.html|publisher=Chris Turner's Snooker Archive|accessdate=14 November 2017|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120228200841/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pontins.html|archivedate=28 February 2012}}
Darren Morgan won the event,by defeating Jimmy White 9–2 in the final.{{cite news |title=Darren deja vu |date=18 May 2000 | newspaper=Coventry Telegraph |page=85}}
Main draw
Results from the tournament are shown below.
{{8TeamBracket
| RD1=Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames
| RD2=Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames
| RD3=Final
Best of 17 frames
| RD1-seed1=
| RD1-team1={{flagicon|ENG}} Jimmy White
| RD1-score1=5
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2={{flagicon|ENG}} Martin Clark
| RD1-score2=3
| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3={{flagicon|WAL}} Matthew Stevens
| RD1-score3=5
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4={{flagicon|IRL}} Ken Doherty
| RD1-score4=3
| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5={{flagicon|WAL}} Darren Morgan
| RD1-score5=5
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6={{flagicon|WAL}} Mark Williams
| RD1-score6=3
| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7={{flagicon|ENG}} Paul Hunter
| RD1-score7=5
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8={{flagicon|ENG}} Stephen Lee
| RD1-score8=3
| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1={{flagicon|ENG}} Jimmy White
| RD2-score1=6
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2={{flagicon|WAL}} Matthew Stevens
| RD2-score2=3
| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3={{flagicon|WAL}} Darren Morgan
| RD2-score3=6
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4={{flagicon|ENG}} Paul Hunter
| RD2-score4=4
| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1={{flagicon|ENG}} Jimmy White
| RD3-score1=2
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2={{flagicon|WAL}} Darren Morgan
| RD3-score2=9
}}
Final
class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; margin: 1em auto 1em auto;" |
colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#ffd700" | Final: Best of 17 frames. Pontins, Prestatyn, Wales, 20 May 2000. |
width="230" align="right" | Jimmy White {{ENG}} | width="100" align="center" | 2–9 | width="230" | Darren Morgan |
colspan="3" align="center" style="font-size: 100%" | 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) |
align="right" | 101
| align="center" | Highest break | 119 |
align="right" | 1
| align="center" | Century breaks | 1 |
align="right" | 1
| align="center" | 50+ breaks | 6 |
Century breaks
Century breaks from the tournament are shown below.
- 122, 101, 101 {{ndash}} Jimmy White
- 119 {{ndash}} Darren Morgan
- 116 {{ndash}} Matthew Stevens
- 106 {{ndash}} Paul Hunter
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Pontins Professional}}
{{Snooker season 1999/2000}}