2005 Masters (snooker)
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| Tournament information | |
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| Dates | 13–20 February 2005 |
| Venue | Wembley Conference Centre |
| City | London |
| Country | England |
| Organisation(s) | WPBSA |
| Format | Non-ranking event |
| Winner's share | £125,000 |
| Highest break | 141 |
| Final | |
| Champion |
 Ronnie O'Sullivan |
| Runner-up |
 John Higgins |
| Score | 10–3 |
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The 2005 Rileys Club Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 13 and 20 February 2005 at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, England.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won his second Masters title beating John Higgins, whom he also beat during O'Sullivan's other title win in 1995, 10–3. Not since Steve Davis whitewashed Mike Hallett 9–0 in 1988 had there been such a runaway London final.
Davis meanwhile defeated defending champion Paul Hunter 6–5, before losing to Peter Ebdon in the quarter-finals. Another veteran, Jimmy White, who had recently signed a madcap sponsorship deal with HP Sauce (which had sponsored the brown ball in the game) and renaming himself as 'James Brown' (but the new name was never mentioned by referees or commentators during the tournament), made it to the semi-finals again and played against O'Sullivan, but lost 1–6.
After not having a sponsor the previous year, Riley's Club stepped in for the 2005 event. For the first time since the 1989/1990 season there was no qualifying event for the Masters.[1]
Field
Defending champion Paul Hunter was the number 1 seed with World Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan seeded 2. 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 two wild-card selections, Stephen Maguire (ranked 24) and Ding Junhui (ranked 76). Stephen Maguire had won the UK Championship the previous November and was making his debut in the Masters.
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[2]
- Winner: £125,000
- Runner-up: £60,000
- Semi-final: £30,500
- Quarter-final: £15,000
- Last 16: £10,000
- Last 18: £2,000
- Highest break: £10,000
- Maximum break: £25,000
Wild-card round
| Match | Date | Score | ||
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| WC1 | Sunday 13 February | Graeme Dott (15) |
6–4 | Stephen Maguire |
| WC2 | Monday 14 February |  Marco Fu (16) |
4–6 |  Ding Junhui |
Main draw
| Last 16 Best of 11 frames | Quarter-finals Best of 11 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 19 frames | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Paul Hunter
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| 13 | Steve Davis
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| 13 | Steve Davis
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| 8 | Peter Ebdon
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| 8 | Peter Ebdon
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| 14 | David Gray
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| 8 | Peter Ebdon
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| 5 | John Higgins
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| 5 | John Higgins
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| 12 | Chris Small
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| 5 | John Higgins
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| 4 | Stephen Hendry
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| 4 | Stephen Hendry
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| 9 | Stephen Lee
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| 5 | John Higgins
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| 2 | Ronnie O'Sullivan
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| 3 |  Mark Williams
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| 10 | Alan McManus
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| 3 | Mark Williams
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| 11 | Jimmy White
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| 6 | Matthew Stevens
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| 11 | Jimmy White
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| 11 | Jimmy White
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| 2 | Ronnie O'Sullivan
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| 7 |  Ken Doherty
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| Ding Junhui
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| Ding Junhui
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| 2 | Ronnie O'Sullivan
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| 2 | Ronnie O'Sullivan
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| 15 | Graeme Dott
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Final
| Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Paul Collier. Wembley Conference Centre, London, England, 20 February 2005.[4] | ||
| John Higgins (5) Scotland |
3–10 | Ronnie O'Sullivan (2) England |
| Afternoon: 9–97 (95), 130–0 (54, 76), 61–7, 0–107 (107), 24–89 (58), 1–102 (97), 0–135 (102), 73–45 (53) Evening: 0–79 (79), 56–75 (56, 75), 0–79 (79), 1–88 (79), 0–134 (134) | ||
| 76 | Highest break | 134 |
| 0 | Century breaks | 3 |
| 4 | 50+ breaks | 10 |
Century breaks
- 141, 111 Ding Junhui
- 134, 130, 123, 107, 105, 102 Ronnie O'Sullivan
- 116 Mark Williams
- 115, 109 Jimmy White
- 110, 108 Stephen Hendry
- 110, 106 Peter Ebdon
- 106, 101 John Higgins
- 101 Stephen Maguire
- 100 Marco Fu
References
- ↑ 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 9 April 2011.
- ↑ "Preisgeld Masters 2005". brownball.de. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- 1 2 3 "2005 Rileys Club Masters". Global Snooker Centre. Archived from the original on 18 January 2008.
- 1 2 3 "Rileys Club Masters 2005". Snooker.org. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
- 1 2 "2005 Rileys Club Masters". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on 30 August 2005. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
- 1 2 "The Masters". Snooker Scene. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
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