1985_Pot_Black

1985 Pot Black

1985 Pot Black

Snooker tournament

The 1985 Pot Black was the seventeenth edition of the professional invitational snooker tournament, which took place in December 1984 but was broadcast in 1985. The tournament was held at Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, and featured sixteen professional players in a knock-out system. All matches until the semi-final were one-frame shoot-outs, the semi-final was aggregate score of two frames and the final being contested over the best of three frames.

Quick Facts Tournament information, Dates ...

Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 21:00 on Tuesday 8 January 1985 [1] David Icke took over from Alan Weeks as presenter with Ted Lowe remaining as commentator and John Williams as referee.

Debuts include John Parrott and Neal Foulds who previously played in Junior Pot Black and Bill Werbeniuk. Doug Mountjoy won the event, his thirteenth professional title, beating Jimmy White 2–0 in the final.[2][3] This was also Mountjoy's second Pot Black title; previously, he had won the 1978 edition.

Main draw

Last 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
Best of 3 frames
        
England Jimmy White 1
England John Parrott 0
England Jimmy White 1
England Steve Davis 0
England Steve Davis 1
England John Spencer 0
England Jimmy White 1
Canada Cliff Thorburn 0
Canada Cliff Thorburn 1
England David Taylor 0
Canada Cliff Thorburn 1
England Willie Thorne 0
England Willie Thorne 1
Australia Eddie Charlton 0
England Jimmy White 0
Wales Doug Mountjoy 2
Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 1
Canada Bill Werbeniuk 0
Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 1
Wales Terry Griffiths 0
Wales Terry Griffiths 1
South Africa Silvino Francisco 0
Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 0
Wales Doug Mountjoy 1
England Neal Foulds 1
Wales Ray Reardon 0
England Neal Foulds 0
Wales Doug Mountjoy 1
Wales Doug Mountjoy 1
Canada Kirk Stevens 0

Final

Final: Best of 3 frames.
Pebble Mill Studios, Birmingham, England, 20 December 1984 (Broadcast 9 April 1985).
Doug Mountjoy
 Wales		 2–0 Jimmy White
 England

References

  1. [1]
    "BBC Television – 8 January 1985 – Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  2. [2]
    "BBC Television – 3 April 1985 – Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  3. [3]
    "CueTracker - 1985 Pot Black - Snooker Results & Statistics Database".
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