The toornament wis sponsored bi cigarette manufacturer Embassy.The first championship was held in 1927, where it was known as the Professional Snooker Championship. The tot prize fund wis £350,000 wi £70,000 awairdit tae the winner. It wis the saxt and final rankin event o the 1985–86 snooker season an the 1986 edition o the Warld Snooker Championship first held in 1927.
Prior tae the event, bookmakers' odds for a Johnson veectory war 150–1. The warld nummer 16 Joe Johnson defeatit Davis 18–12 in the final tae win his sole rankin event. Taylor lost in the first roond o the event 4–10 tae Mike Hallett. The defendin champion wis Northren Ireland's Dennis Taylor, who haed defeatit Steve Davis 18–17 in the 1985 Warld Snooker Championship final tae win his first title. Ten professionals entered including most of the leading English billiards players.Snooker star Judd Trump is keen to seize his opportunity when he competes in the US Open Pool Championship in Atlantic City from September 13 - live on Sky Sports.
Joe Davis won the first Warld Championship in 1927, the final match bein held in Camkin's Hall, Birmingham, England. The 32 competitors in the main toornament war selected uisin a combination o the tap players in the warld snooker rankins and a pre-toornament qualification stage. The championship featurt 32 professional players competin in ane-on-ane snooker matches in a single elimination format, each played ower several frames. Houiver, in the modren era it haes acome increasingly popular warldwide, especially in East and Southeast Asian nations sic as Cheenae, Hong Kong and Thailand. Foondit in the late 19t century bi British Army soldiers stationed in Indie, the sport wis popular in the British Isles.
Aw matches war played as the best-o-19 frames. The brakdown o prize money for the event is shawn ablo: Tournament summary Qualifying Qualifying matches teuk place at Preston Guild Hall frae 26 Mairch tae 6 Apryle 1986. The winner o the event won a tot o £70,000. Prize fund The toornament featurt a prize fund o £350,000 wi a bonus o £80,000 if a player made a maximum break.
James Giannaros, Jim Rempe and Wayne Sanderson aw withdrew frae the competeetion. Veteran professional Bernard Bennett suffered the anly whitewash o the first roond, failing tae win a frame against Sakchai Sim Ngam. Dave Gilbert an aw won five consecutive frames, going frae 5–7 behind tae win 10–7 against Roger Bales. John Hargreaves wis 2–9 doun tae Bernie Mikkelsen but won five frames in a row tae recover tae 7–9, afore bein knocked oot 7–10. Paul Thornley put thegither 126 in his 10–3 win ower Derek Mienie.
He then conceded the 18t frame frae 53 pynts behind wi sax reds still remainin, meanin that up tae 75 pynts war available wioot snookers, an lost 8–10. At 8–8 against Bob Chaperon, Frank Jonik conceded the frame when 22 pynts behind wi the broun tae black balls, totalling 22 pynts, still on the table, which meant he coud draw the frame. Hendry haed led 8–3 and 9–8 afore winnin 10–9.
Les Dodd lost anly ane frame against umwhile warld snooker championship promoter Mike Watterson, and Peter Francisco saw off Fred Davis, a umwhile billiards and snooker warld champion, bi the same margin. Hendry made braks o 117 and 91 in his 10–8 third roond defeat o Wayne Jones during which Jones haed recovered frae 3–7 tae 8–8. Thare wis ane whitewash in the seicont roond, bi Ray Edmonds against Billy Kelly. He beat Omprakesh Agrawal 10–5. On his wey tae his seicont roond match, Steve Newbury wis involved in a traffic collision that injured his wife and wrecked his car.
First round Defendin champion Dennis Taylor lost in the openin roondThe first roond war played as the best-o-19-frames matches ower two sessions, an aw teuk place atween 19 and 24 Apryle. Wilman haed led Edmonds 9–6 but lost 9–10, an MacLeod wis beaten 6–10 bi Danny Fowler. O'Kane wis ane o three tap-32 seeds tae lose in the fowert roond, the others bein Mark Wildman and Murdo MacLeod. Hendry haed led Dene O'Kane 6–3 and went on tae win 10–9 tae acome the youngest-ever qualifier for the Crucible stages at that time. John Spencer qualified tae meet anither umwhile champion, Alex Higgins bi beatin Newbury 10–7. Newbury became the first player in this year's competeetion tae qualify for the Crucible roonds against a tap 16 player, wi a 10–2 win ower Ian Black.
Jimmy White compiled a 121 brak in the final frame o his 10–7 veectory ower John Virgo. The 16t seed Joe Johnson defeatit Dave Martin 10–3 in the first roond, his first win in three appearances at the Championship. Third seed Thorburn beat Bill Werbeniuk 10–5, whilst fowert seed Tony Knowles won a close match against Neal Foulds 10–9. Seicont seed Davis beat Ray Edmonds 10–4. Lik Spencer in 1978, Terry Griffiths in 1980, Cliff Thorburn in 1981 and Steve Davis in 1982, Taylor wis unable tae retain his first warld championship, kent as the Crucible Curse. He won five mair frames, but lost 6–10.
Second round The seicont roond matches war played as the best-o-25 frames matches ower three sessions, an aw teuk place atween 24 and 28 Apryle. In the ither matches o the roond, Doug Mountjoy beat Perrie Mans 10–3, qualifier John Parrott beat Tony Meo 10–4, Kirk Stevens beat Dean Reynolds 10–6, Silvino Francisco beat Rex Williams 10–4, Eugene Hughes beat David Taylor 10–7, an Eddie Charlton beat Cliff Wilson 10–6. Sax-times warld championship winner Ray Reardon wis knocked oot 8–10 bi John Campbell. Anither debutant in 1986 wis Danny Fowler, who lost 2–10 tae Terry Griffiths. Aged 17 years and 3 month, Hendry wis the youngest player ever tae compete at the Warld Snooker Championship. Future seiven-time champion Stephen Hendry made his debut, losin 8–10 tae Willie Thorne in the first roond.
The Stevens and Charlton match an aw went tae a deciding frame, wi Stevens winnin the last three frames frae 10–12 behind tae win 13–12. The match went tae a deciding frame, wi Griffiths prevailing 13–12. Whilst the next two frames war shared, Griffiths fluked a red ball tae win frame 15 and a frame later wis 9–7 ahead at the end o thair seicont session. Griffiths haed the better o thair seicont session, an made a brak o 110 tae level at 6–6. Higgins missed a black ball frae its spot that wad hae put him 6–2 ahead o Griffiths at the end o thair first session, but Griffiths won the frame tae leave Higgins 5–3 ahead insteid. Mounjoy did nae pot a ball in the final session as Davis completit a 13–5 veectory.
In the ither seicont roond matches, Knowles beat Fransciso 13–10 and Thorburn beat Hughes 13–6. Thorne beat the Australian Professional Championship winner Campbell 13–9. White won three o the next five frames tae win 13–8. Parrott and White war level at 4–4 and 6–6 afore White won a run o fower frames tae lead 10–6 efter the seicont session.
Davis made a brak o 134 in the openin frame and played consistently well in beatin Jimmy White 13–5, whilst White missed a nummer o relatively semple pots. Steve Davis played Jimmy White, a replay o the 1984 Warld Snooker Championship final. Johnson teuk the next fower tae win 13–12, makin two century braks in thae fower frames. On resumption, Griffiths won five frames in-a-row tae come within ane frame o winnin the match at 12–9. Joe Johnson led Terry Griffiths 9–7 at the end o the first day o thair match.
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