Tournament information | |
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Dates | 10 January – 14 March 2004 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Organisation | Matchroom Sport |
Format | Non-ranking event |
Total prize fund | £180,000[1] |
Winner's share | £45,000[1] |
Highest break | Paul Hunter (ENG) (146)[2] |
Final | |
Champion | Stephen Hendry |
Runner-up | John Higgins |
Score | 9–6 |
← 2003 |
The 2004 Betfair Premier League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 10 January to 14 March 2004.
Stephen Hendry won in the final 9–6 against John Higgins.
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[1]
Ranking | HIG |
HEN |
WIL |
FU |
HUN |
WHI |
DAV |
Frame W-L |
Match W-D-L |
Pld-Pts | |
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1 | John Higgins | x | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 28–20 | 4–1–1 | 6–9 |
2 | Mark Williams | 6 | x | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 28–20 | 3–2–1 | 6–8 |
3 | Stephen Hendry | 4 | 4 | x | 5 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 28–20 | 3–2–1 | 6–8 |
4 | Marco Fu | 2 | 5 | 3 | x | 5 | 5 | 6 | 26–22 | 4–0–2 | 6–8 |
5 | Paul Hunter | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | x | 4 | 5 | 21–27 | 1–2–3 | 6–4 |
6 | Jimmy White | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | x | 3 | 20–28 | 1–1–4 | 6–3 |
7 | Steve Davis | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | x | 17–31 | 1–0–5 | 6–2 |
Top four qualified for the play-offs. If points were level then most frames won determined their positions. If two players had an identical record then the result in their match determined their positions. If that ended 4–4 then the player who got to four first was higher. (Breaks above 50 shown between (parentheses); century breaks are indicated with bold.)[3][4]
13–14 March – Colwyn Bay Leisure Centre, Colwyn Bay, Wales[2][3][4]
Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 17 frames | ||||||||
1 | John Higgins* | 6 | |||||||
4 | Marco Fu | 1 | |||||||
1 | John Higgins | 6 | |||||||
2 | Stephen Hendry*** | 9 | |||||||
2 | Stephen Hendry** | 6 | |||||||
3 | Mark Williams | 4 |
*(80)-1, (79)-9, (68)-16, (85) 94–27, 0–77, 77–4, (81) 104–0
**21–65, (83)-0, (89) 90–1, (64)-65, (81) 104–0, 56–14, 17–76, (95)-40, 45–64, 53–52 (50)
***60-(62), (134)-0, 33–95 (70), 0-(88), (52) 66–4, 0–87 (86), 0-(80), (74) 78–4, 1–71 (70), 27–56 (55), 80–0, 18-(83), (67) 73–7, (69)-(59), 24–81 (57)
The highest break was worth £6,000.[3]
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International League | |
European League | |
Premier League | |
Winners |
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