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
{{WAL}}

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.

References