Professional Players Tournament 1982

The 1982 Professional Players Tournament was a snooker tournament that took place in two venues in the Birmingham area. One was at the La Reserve in Sutton Coldfield and the other was the International Snooker Club in Aston. It was the first ranking snooker tournament outside of the World Championship and it was the first tournament in a series which is now known as the Grand Prix. The event was not televised and the tournament turned out poorly due to poor crowds.

Ray Reardon beat Jimmy White in the final with a 132 clearence to gain his first major tournament win since the 1978 World Championship. The highest break of the tournament (135) was scored by Willie Thorne in his second round defeat by Scotland's Murdo McLeod

Knockout stage

Round16
|flagicon|Wales Ray Reardon|5|flagicon|Scotland Murdo Macleod|2
|flagicon|Canada Bill Werbeniuk|5|flagicon|Canada Cliff Thorburn|2
|flagicon|England Dean Reynolds|5|flagicon|Wales Cliff Wilson|2
|flagicon|Australia Eddie Charlton|5|flagicon|England Tony Meo|3
|flagicon|England Jimmy White|5|flagicon|Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor|3
|flagicon|Wales Terry Griffiths|5|flagicon|Scotland Eddie Sinclair|3
|flagicon|England John Virgo|5|flagicon|England John Spencer|1
|flagicon|England Joe Johnson|5|flagicon|England Mark Wildman|4
|flagicon|Wales Ray Reardon|5|flagicon|Canada Bill Werbeniuk|3
|flagicon|Australia Eddie Charlton|5|flagicon|England Dean Reynolds|2
|flagicon|England Jimmy White|5|flagicon|Wales Terry Griffiths|2
|flagicon|England John Virgo|5|flagicon|England Joe Johnson|1
|flagicon|Wales Ray Reardon|10|flagicon|Australia Eddie Charlton|7
|flagicon|England Jimmy White|10|flagicon|England "'John Virgo|7
|flagicon|Wales Ray Reardon|10|flagicon|England Jimmy White|5
3rdplace=no