1991 Masters (snooker)


The 1991 Benson & Hedges Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 3 and 10 February 1991 at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, England. The highest break of the tournament was a 135 compiled by Dennis Taylor, for which he earned £7,500.
In the final, defending champion Stephen Hendry performed what is considered to be one of the greatest comebacks in snooker, when he defeated Mike Hallett 9–8, after trailing 0–7 and 2–8 earlier in the match. With the Masters title in his sights, Hallett just needed to pot the final pink and black in the eleventh frame to win the match, but he missed the pink with the rest at 8–2 up, allowing Hendry to take the frame and then make a historic recovery.
Places in the tournament were allocated to the top 16 players in the world rankings. World number one Stephen Hendry was the number 1 seed. Players seeded 15 and 16 competed in the wild-card round against Alan McManus, who was the winner of the qualifying event, and Gary Wilkinson, who was the wild-card selection. Martin Clark, Alan McManus, Alain Robidoux, and Gary Wilkinson were making their Masters debuts.

Wild-card round

MatchDateScore
WC1Sunday 3 February Tony Meo 5–3 Gary Wilkinson
WC2Monday 4 February Alain Robidoux 3–5 Alan McManus

Main draw

Final

Qualifying

won the qualifying tournament, known as the 1990 Benson & Hedges Satellite Championship at the time.

Century breaks

Total: 9