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Australian Professional Championship

Australian Professional Championship

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The Australian Professional Championship was a professional snooker tournament which was open only for Australian or Australian-based players.

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History

From 1963 to 1974 the Australian Professional Championship was held on a challenge basis and dominated by Eddie Charlton who won ten times in that period. It became a knockout tournament in 1975. It was then not held until 1984 when the WPBSA offered a subsidy of £1,000 per man to any country holding a national professional championship. This subsidy ended in 1988/1989 after which date most national championships were discontinued.

Eddie Charlton won the tournament on a record 20 occasions.

Winners

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Notes

  1. This was also a qualifying event for the 1971 World Snooker Championship

See also

  • Cue sports in Australia

References

  1. "Australian Professional Championship". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 7 January 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. "Snooker won by Simpson". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 October 1963. p. 16.
  3. Kobylecky, John. The Complete International Directory of Snooker Players – 1927 to 2018. Kobyhadrian Books. ISBN 978-0-9931433-1-1.



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