The 2003 Citywest Irish Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 25 and 30 March 2003 at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, Ireland.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won the title by defeating defending champion John Higgins 10–9 in the final. __TOC__
Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £48,000 Final: £24,000 Semi-final: £11,500 Quarter-final: £7,525 Last 16: £6,600 Last 32: £5,600 Last 48: £3,000 Last 64: £2,300
Last 80: £1,600 Last 96: £800 Stage one highest break: £1,800 Stage two highest break: £7,500 Stage one maximum break: £5,000 Stage two maximum break: £20,000 Total: £400,000
Main draw
Final Final: Best of 19 framesCitywest Hotel, Dublin, Ireland, 28 March 2004.John Higgins 9–10 Ronnie O'Sullivan Afternoon: 35–98 (60), 0–62, , , , , , Evening: 131–0 (131), , , , , , , , , , 131 Highest break 128 2 Century breaks 2 9 50+ breaks 8
Qualifying
Round 1 Best of 9 frames
Jeff Cundy 5–2 Colm Gilcreest Andrew Higginson 5–3 Ricky Walden Paul Davies 4–5 David Gilbert Wayne Brown 5–3 David John Rory McLeod 4–5 Johl Younger Alain Robidoux 1–5 Kwan Poomjang John Read 3–5 Simon Bedford Paul Wykes 5–1 Atthasit Mahitthi Sean Storey 5–2 Bob Chaperon Jason Ferguson 5–1 Hugh Abernethy Matthew Couch 5–1 David Donovan Tony Jones 5–4 Jin Long Euan Henderson w/d–w/d Matthew Farrant Jason Prince 5–2 Jimmy Robertson Martin Dziewialtowski 3–5 Darren Clarke Kristján Helgason 5–2 Matthew Selt
Shaun Murphy w/o–w/d Eddie Manning Rod Lawler 5–4 Lee Spick Andrew Norman 4–5 Jason Weston Adrian Gunnell 5–3 Munraj Pal Paul Davison 4–5 Manan Chandra Ryan Day 5–0 Peter Roscoe Phaitoon Phonbun 5–4 David McLellan Joe Johnson 2–5 James Reynolds Stephen Kershaw 4–5 Mark Gray Luke Fisher 5–2 Justin Astley Antony Bolsover 5–2 Pang Weiguo Craig Butler 5–4 Nick Pearce Neal Foulds 5–2 Stefan Mazrocis Troy Shaw 4–5 Leo Fernandez Peter Lines 5–2 Jamie Cope Lee Walker 5–2 Mario Wehrman
Round 2–5
Century breaks
Qualifying stage centuries
129 Fergal O'Brien 117 Matthew Couch 116 Ricky Walden 115 Tony Drago 115 Jason Ferguson 114 Lee Spick 113, 108, 106 Paul Wykes 112 Marco Fu
110 Nick Dyson 110 Jason Prince 109, 104 Adrian Gunnell 108 Robert Milkins 107 Kristján Helgason 105 Ryan Day 102 Sean Storey 100 Robin Hull
Televised stage centuries
142 Peter Ebdon 141 Mark Williams 139 Stuart Bingham 135 Joe Swail 131, 123, 120, 110, 108, 104 John Higgins 128, 128, 118, 106 Ronnie O'Sullivan 125, 125, 108 Stephen Hendry
120 Ali Carter 118, 101 Paul Hunter 118 Chris Small 118 Matthew Stevens 117 Anthony Hamilton 117, 103 Dave Harold 106 Alan McManus
Notes
References