1986 Pot Black
Tournament information | |
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Dates | December 1985 (broadcast weekly, 16 January – 17 April 1986 | )
Venue | Pebble Mill Studios |
City | Birmingham |
Country | England |
Organisation | WPBSA |
Format | Non-Ranking event |
Highest break | Jimmy White (106) |
Final | |
Champion | Jimmy White |
Runner-up | Kirk Stevens |
Score | 2–0 |
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The 1986 shoot-outs, the semi-final was won by aggregate score over two frames, and the final was decided by the best of three frames.
Broadcasts were on
BBC2 and started at 22:10 on Thursday 16 January 1986,[1] later than in previous series. David Icke presented, with Ted Lowe as commentator and John Williams
as referee.
The only Pot Black debut in this series was that of Patsy Fagan. All the competitors in this series were 1985 World Championship last-16 players. Jimmy White won the event, beating Kirk Stevens 2–0 with a break of 106 in the last frame.[2][3]
Main draw
Last 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final Best of 3 frames | ||||||||||||
Doug Mountjoy | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Patsy Fagan | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Patsy Fagan | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Jimmy White | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Jimmy White | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Terry Griffiths | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Jimmy White | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Cliff Thorburn | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Cliff Thorburn | 1 | ||||||||||||||
David Taylor | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Cliff Thorburn | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Tony Knowles | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Tony Knowles | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Eddie Charlton | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Jimmy White | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Kirk Stevens | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Steve Davis | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Bill Werbeniuk | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Bill Werbeniuk | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Kirk Stevens | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Kirk Stevens | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Tony Meo | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Kirk Stevens | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Dennis Taylor | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Ray Reardon | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Alex Higgins | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Ray Reardon | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Dennis Taylor | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Dennis Taylor | 1 | ||||||||||||||
John Parrott | 0 |
Final
Final: Best of 3 frames. Referee: John Williams. Pebble Mill Studios, Birmingham, England, December 1985 (Broadcast 17 April 1986). | ||
Jimmy White England |
2–0 | Kirk Stevens Canada |
60–46, 106–21 (106) | ||
106 | Highest break | 45 |
1 | Century breaks | 0 |
1 | 50+ breaks | 1 |
References
- ^ "BBC Television – 16 January 1986 – Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ "BBC Television – 17 April 1986 – Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ "CueTracker - 1989 Norwich Union Grand Prix - Snooker Results & Statistics Database".