The 1994 Masters (officially the 1994 Benson & Hedges Masters) was a professional non-

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tournament that took place between 6 and 13 February 1994 at the Wembley Conference Centre in

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. Defending champion

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met Alan McManus in the final. Hendry had won the previous five Masters tournaments and was undefeated in 23 matches since making his debut in 1989. By comparison McManus had lost all six of the important finals he had contested since his first final, the 1992 Asian Open. The previous week he had lost to

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in the final of the Welsh Open. McManus won the first three frames, but Hendry won the next three to level the match, including a break of 115 in frame 5, Hendry's first century of the tournament. McManus won the 7th frame to take a 4–3 lead at the end of the afternoon session. Hendry had breaks of 80, 49, 62 and 58 to win four of the first five frames in the evening and take a 7–5 lead. McManus had missed a simple black to lose frame 10 after he had needed three snookers. McManus levelled the match again by winning the next two frames before losing frame 15 and winning a tense frame 16. In the deciding frame Hendry missed an ambitious plant after which McManus made a 76 break, Hendry conceding with only 59 on the table. McManus won the first prize of £115,000. He also won a further £10,000 for making the highest break of the tournament, a 132 total clearance in the sixth frame of his first round match against

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Field

, defending champion and

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was the number 1 seed. 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 winner of the

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(ranked 57), and

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(ranked 21), who was the wild-card selection.

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and 18-year-old Ronnie O'Sullivan were making their debuts in the Masters.

Wild-card round

In the preliminary round, the qualifier and wild-card players played the 15th and 16th seeds:

Main draw

Final

Qualifying

won the qualifying tournament, known as the 1993 Benson & Hedges Championship at the time which took place in

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between 6 and 10 November 1993.

Century breaks

Total: 7 * 132 Alan McManus * 130, 104

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* 119

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* 115

* 113, 112

Peter Ebdon's 112 was scored in the wild-card round.

References

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