King's Cup (snooker)

King's Cup
Tournament information
LocationBangkok
CountryThailand
Established1990
Organisation(s)WPBSA
FormatInvitational event
Final year1994
Final championScotland Billy Snaddon

The King's Cup was a series of invitational snooker tournaments staged in Bangkok, Thailand between 1990 and 1994, and was an event made for television in Thailand and held in the studios of their Channel 9 station just before Christmas. The tournament invited sixteen players, with a majority being Asian, and divided them into four groups of three. Four players were exempted until the quarter-finals, at which point they joined the group winners.[1]

Winners

Year Winner Runner-up Final score Season
1990 Northern Ireland Joe Swail Thailand James Wattana 8–4 [2] 1990/91
1992 England Nigel Bond Thailand James Wattana 8–7 [3] 1992/93
1993 Thailand James Wattana Wales Darren Morgan 8–3 [4] 1993/94
1994 Scotland Billy Snaddon Thailand Noppadon Noppachorn 8–4 [5] 1994/95

References

  1. ^ "Other Non-Ranking and Invitation Events". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Round-up: Snooker". The Daily Telegraph. London. 15 December 1990. p. 31.
  3. ^ "Snooker - Kings Cup Tournament". Irish Independent. 21 December 1992. p. 22.
  4. ^ "Wattana gunning for White". Evening Herald (Dublin). 3 February 1994. p. 62.
  5. ^ "King's reward for Super Snaddon". Aberdeen Evening Express. 23 December 1994. p. 22.