King's Cup (snooker)

King's Cup

Tournament information
Location	Bangkok
Country	Thailand
Established	1989
Organisation(s)	WPBSA
Format	Invitational event
Final year	1994
Final champion	Billy Snaddon

The King's Cup was a series of invitational snooker tournaments staged in Bangkok, Thailand between 1989 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
1989	Rom Surin	Sammy Chong	7–6	1989/90
1990	Joe Swail	James Wattana	8–4 [2]	1990/91
1992	Nigel Bond	James Wattana	8–7 [3]	1992/93
1993	James Wattana	Darren Morgan	8–3 [4]	1993/94
1994	Billy Snaddon	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.