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If you have any snooker trivia on your club or players please email me for inclusion below.
During the 1980 World Team Champoinships, Canadian Bill Werbrniuk became the first professional player to split his pants while playing on television. The incident was made worse by the stocky canadian not wearing underpants!
Willie Thorne is the only know player to have scored a maximun break with
both legs in plaster! In 1982, after a go-karting accident, he compiled a 147
with the aid of crutches at his club in Leicester.
Fred Davis turned up at the Spectrum Arena, Warrington, for his
qualifying match in the 1984-85 Mercantile Credit Classic, to find that a
chimpanzee from a local circus had wandered into the snooker area. When he saw
the animal, Fred asked:"Is that my opponent?". On being assured that
it was not, he added:"Well, there are so many new professionals these days,
I dont know half of them".
Before Steve Davis joined the professional snooker ranks, and became one of the highest earners in the sport, he only held two other jobs. One was in a butcher shop, and one in a greengrocer`s, where he earned 28p an hour.
Cliff Thorburn was the first player to compile a maximum break during the World Snooker Championships. His 147 which started with a fluke, took 15mins 10secs to complete.
Cliff Thorburn also featured in the latest
finish. It occured during the 1993 World Championship, against Terry Griffiths. Thorburn
clinched a 13-12 victory at 3.51am in a match that lasted 13 hours and included Thorburn's memorable 147 break.
The longest frame in a world ranking event took place in the 1994 Regal Welsh. The frame took 92 minutes and 59 seconds to complete - and that was without the final black being potted! The frame featured Canadian Cliff Thorburn, whose methodical approach earned him the nickname "The Grinder". His opponent was Stephen O'Connor of Ireland who, for the record, eventually won the frame on the pink.
Fred Davis, playing in his first World Championship in 1937, was expected to give the established players a run for their money. Incredibiliy Fred lost 17-14 to a totally unknown Welshman, Mr. J.A. Withers in the first round. Big brother, Joe Davis, took this as a bit of a slur on the family name and despatched the hapless Withers 30-1 in the next round. It was not until after the event that the reason for Fred's shock defeat came to light. He couldn't see. Fred was suffering from myopia and when he sought out an optician he was fitted with glasses and thereafter established himself as one of the most formidable players of his, or any, generation.
The biggest winning margin of victory in the World
Championship Final is Steve Davis' 18-3 defeat of John Parrott in 1989.
Peter Williams, from North Wales, joined the professional ranks in 1991, when the game went "open" and earned an unfortunate record of not winning a single frame in a professional match in his first two complete seasons as a professional.
During the final of the 1997 Benson & Hedges Masters between Steve Davis and Ronnie O'Sullivan, play was brought to a temporary halt when snooker's first streaker - Lianne Crofts - invaded the match arena. The 39 year old father of two Steve Davis wasn't phased by the incident and went on to win (10-8) his only title of the 97/98 season.
The 1975 Benson & Hedges Masters was decided on a respotted black John Spencer potted the all important black to defeat Ray Reardon.
In the 1980 World Team Cup Dene O'Kane playing for The Rest of The World and Steve Davis of England were forced to a respot to decide who will hold the Cup aloft. Davis, the England Captain, kept his cool and potted the final black.
Stephen Hendry won a nerve tingling respot black in the 1994 Top Rank Event in Thailand. He was fortunate to escape the country ... his victim was James Wattana.
The 1998 Benson & Hedges Masters saw Stephen Hendry relinquished a 9-6 lead to let Mark Williams back into the match. With the scores in the decider tied, Hendry missed a chance to sink the extra black and Welshman Mark Williams gratefully potted it, to become the first Welsh winner since Terry Griffiths way back in 1980.
