World Snooker Championship 1985

World Snooker Championship 1985

= The event =

The Embassy World Snooker Championship took place at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield between 12 and 28 April 1985. It included one of the most famous finals ever, between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor, in which their Cuegloss|Match|match attracted 18.5 million viewers on BBC2 and the Cuegloss|Session|session finished at 12:25 a.m. after Taylor Cuegloss|Pot|potted Cuegloss|Black ball|the black to win the title. "Main article 1985 World Snooker Championship final."

Other notable moments

* One quarter-final had the youngest "and" the oldest of the 1985 Championship players competing against each other, John Parrott who was close to his 21st birthday and 52-year-old Ray Reardon. Reardon won 13–12

* The semi-final matches both finshed with a Cuegloss|Session to spare|session to spare, and to fill them, Ray Reardon who lost to Steve Davis 5-16 played John Virgo in an exhibition match which was the best of three Cuegloss|Frame|frames. Virgo also had some time to do impressions of other snooker players, and even Tony Drago, then an amateur, played a frame of snooker at the Crucible. The other semi-final had Dennis Taylor beating Tony Knowles with the same score as the Davis/Reardon match.

* There were 14 Cuegloss|Century|century breaks in the 1985 Championship. Bill Werbeniuk's 143 against Joe Johnson in the first round was at the time the joint third-highest break in the Championship's history, tied with Willie Thorne's 143 in 1982.

The results

World Snooker Championship Rounds
|flagicon|England Steve Davis|10|flagicon|England Neal Foulds|8
|flagicon|England David Taylor|10|flagicon|New Zealand Dene O'Kane|4
|flagicon|Northern Ireland Alex Higgins|10|flagicon|England Dean Reynolds|4
|flagicon|Wales Terry Griffiths|10|flagicon|England Rex Williams|3
|flagicon|Wales Ray Reardon|10|flagicon|Ireland Eugene Hughes|9
|flagicon|Ireland Patsy Fagan|10|flagicon|England Willie Thorne|6
|flagicon|England John Parrott|10|flagicon|England John Spencer|3
|flagicon|Canada Kirk Stevens|10|flagicon|England Ray Edmonds|8
|flagicon|Canada Cliff Thorburn|10|flagicon|England Mike Hallett|8
|flagicon|Canada Bill Werbeniuk|10|flagicon|England Joe Johnson|8
|flagicon|Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor|10|flagicon|South Africa|1928 Silvino Francisco|2
|flagicon|Australia Eddie Charlton|10|flagicon|Australia John Campbell|3
|flagicon|England Jimmy White|10|flagicon|Wales Wayne Jones|4
|flagicon|England Tony Meo|10|flagicon|England John Virgo|6
|flagicon|Wales Doug Mountjoy|10|flagicon|Scotland Murdo Macleod|5
|flagicon|England Tony Knowles|10|flagicon|England Tony Jones|8
|flagicon|England Steve Davis|13|flagicon|England David Taylor|4
|flagicon|Wales Terry Griffiths|13|flagicon|Northern Ireland Alex Higgins|7
|flagicon|Wales Ray Reardon|13|flagicon|Ireland Patsy Fagan|9
|flagicon|England John Parrott|13|flagicon|Canada Kirk Stevens|6
|flagicon|Canada Cliff Thorburn|13|flagicon|Canada Bill Werbeniuk|3
|flagicon|Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor|13|flagicon|Australia Eddie Charlton|6
|flagicon|England Jimmy White|13|flagicon|England Tony Meo|11
|flagicon|England Tony Knowles|13|flagicon|Wales Doug Mountjoy|6
|flagicon|England Steve Davis|13|flagicon|Wales Terry Griffiths|6
|flagicon|Wales Ray Reardon|13|flagicon|England John Parrott|12
|flagicon|Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor|13|flagicon|Canada Cliff Thorburn|5
|flagicon|England Tony Knowles|13|flagicon|England Jimmy White|10
|flagicon|England Steve Davis|16|flagicon|Wales Ray Reardon|5
|flagicon|Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor|16|flagicon|England Tony Knowles|5
("Best of 35 frames") Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 27 April & 28 April (& also 29 April 1985). Referee: John Williams
flagicon|Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor
18-17
Steve Davis flagicon|England
Scores to fill (Final frame 66-62 Taylor)|
Scores to fill (Final frame 66-62 Taylor)
flagicon|Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor wins the 1985 Embassy World Snooker Championship
"Best of 19 frames"
"Best of 25 frames"
"Best of 25 frames"
"Best of 31 frames"


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