The Canadian had beaten Graham Miles and David Taylor comfortably before his lengthy and at times tetchy meeting with Davis. Thorburn took the opening frame — the first time Davis had trailed in the tournament — and built an lead. Crucially Davis won six of the next eight frames to lead overnight, but was a touch of controversy in the final frame in the early hours of the Saturday morning. Even though he needed eight snookers, Thorburn seemed appalled by this gesture and pointed to the remaining balls on the table.
Returning to play his next shot, Thorburn then conceded. It was a peculiar reaction and one for which Thorburn later apologised. Having beaten three world champions, Davis now faced 14th seed Doug Mountjoy in the final. When Davis surged into a lead, it looked as if his pre-match odds of were fully justified. Mountjoy won the next, before taking a bizarre eighth frame.
With just three colours left on the table and Davis leading by a point, referee John Williams ordered a re-rack, as the black ball hung over a pocket in close proximity to the blue. A total of 37 safety shots in nearly 15 minutes led to the decision. Mountjoy fought hard to regain some footing in the match, a break of in the 14th frame helping him claw back the score to as day one ended.
The players won three frames each at the start of the final day before a vital point arrived in the 25th frame.
Looking to narrow the gap to just one frame, Mountjoy missed an easy blue and Davis stepped in to take advantage and move in front. The Welshman responded bravely by taking the next frame, but it was to be his last of the tournament.
Davis won four frames in a row, including a break of in the 28th frame, to win the match and clinch his first World Snooker Championship. As he sunk the final pink, Davis closed his eyes and took a step back from the table before shaking the hand of Mountjoy.
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Famous Slough. Your Slough. Picture Gallery. Picture Gallery - The Buildings of Slough. Slough Through the Ages. Living in Slough. Smoke, Steam and Computer Chips. Green Fields of Slough. Victorian Slough. Whilst experimenting with the existing game of black pool a form of billiards , which consisted of 15 red balls and one black ball, Chamberlain threw down additional coloured balls and a new game was born.
After enquiring about the rules of snooker, Roberts decided he would introduce the game back in England. Although it took many years before the game became widely played, by the end of the 19th century the manufacturers of billiards equipment had realised the commercial potential of snooker.
The first important professional event took place in and was won by Joe Davis, the first snooker superstar. Davis won the Professional Snooker Championship which later became the World Snooker Championship for 15 consecutive years and was instrumental in helping to grow the popularity of the game.
By the s, snooker had overtaken billiards as the most popular cue sport in the UK. After a short slump in popularity during the s, Snooker was put back on the map with the introduction of Pot Black in , a BBC television series of annual snooker tournaments shown in colour.
Snooker clubs were opening up all over the country and sponsors rushed to invest in the new popular sport. Although a ban on tobacco advertising in sport during the s initially reduced the number of events and sponsorship money, the World Snooker Tour has bounced back considerably since , when sports promoter Barry Hearn acquired a controlling interest in snooker's commercial arm -World Snooker Limited. Pool, more formally known as pocket billiards, is the umbrella term for a number of cue sports and games played on a six-pocket pool table, including eight-ball, nine-ball and straight pool.
The earliest recorded playing of a recognisable form of billiards was in France in the s. Played as an outdoor lawn game similar to croquet, it eventually moved indoors and onto a wooden table with green cloth to resemble grass on which it had been previously played.
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