World Matchplay (snooker)

The Professional Match Play Championship was held, with two interruptions, from 1952-1992, including 1952-1957 as the official World Snooker Championship.

History

The Professional Match Play Championship was founded in 1952 by Fred Davis after a dispute between some professional players and the previous operator, the Billiards Association and Control Council ( BACC ). This year there were therefore two World Snooker Championships.

As interest in Snooker sank, 1957, the last tournament was held as the official World Cup. After a 12 - year break, Eddie Charlton, the tournament under the name World Professional Match Play Championship for a season called back to life. Melbourne venue was in his native Australia. It took only 16 players participate in this, John Spencer and other top players were missing.

According to another, this time 10 -year-old break Barry Hearn revived the tournament again. Under the name World Matchplay, he organized an invitational tournament for the 12 best players in the provisional world rankings. For the first time the tournament at Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, England was discharged. It was the first snooker tournament, the winner paid off a six-figure sum, that is exactly £ 100,000.

The first eight seeded players were able to skip the first round and had their first round match in the quarterfinals. Steve Davis, who at the time best player struck in the final John Parrott 9-5 and could insert the first 6 - digit winner's check.

Television broadcasts were transmitted from ITV as a replacement for the World Doubles Championship in 1988 and 1992.

Winner

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