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Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

chengdufan wrote:
SnookerEd25 wrote:
The_Abbott wrote:These are a great read and its amazing how many players have got lost in time. I hardly remember some of them yet I was a massive fan in the 80's.


ChengduFan; are you aware that there were a pair of Canadian brothers, both pro’ snooker players - John & Jim Bear? Just checking in case you have taken the results of ‘J. Bear’ to be one player, which may skew your rankings...

Yes, thanks for this. I did know there were these two, but now you mention it, I only recall including one in the rankings so far. I will double check when I get home from work <ok>

Only John Bear has played so far. Seems Jim's first ranking event was the 1985 Matchroom Trophy.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

chengdufan wrote:Here is the draw for the final stages of the 1984 World Championship, with current rankings in brackets :-)

Steve Davis (1) v Warren King (49)
John Spencer (15) v Graham Miles (42)
Terry Griffiths (9) v Paul Mifsud (88)
Bill Werbeniuk (18) v Fred Davis (68)
Alex Higgins (11) v Neal Foulds (70)
Doug Mountjoy (24) v Mike Hallett (16)
Dennis Taylor (28) v Joe Johnson (8)
Tony Knowles (2) v John Parrott (27)
Cliff Thorburn (4) v Mario Morra (29)
John Virgo (22) v Willie Thorne (7)
Jimmy White (13) v Rex Williams (19)
Eddie Charlton (5) v Roy Andrewartha (59)
Kirk Stevens (10) v Eddie Sinclair (31)
David Taylor (20) v Marcel Gauvreau (84)
Tony Meo (3) v Silvino Francisco (17)
Ray Reardon (6) v Jim Wych (65)

Two top sixteen players failed to qualify.
World number 12, Mark Wildman, lost 10-9 to Roy Andrewartha in the final qualifying round.
Number 14, Eugene Hughes, lost to Paul Mifsud 10-5 in the first round of qualifying.

Keen observers will note that 70 year-old Fred Davis has qualified this year. While I'm all for hailing this great achievement by one of the greats of the game, and do not wish to disparage it, it does need to be noted that for some reason, he only needed to get through one round of qualifying. For sure, he did well to beat world number 35, Jim Donnelly, 10-5, but based on his recent results, he would have been more suitably placed into the first round of qualifying, rather than automatically advancing to the final round.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

The 1984 World Championship concludes with tournament favourite Steve Davis beating fans' favourite Jimmy White 18-16 in the final. The highest ranked player Steve faced on route to the final was number 9, Terry Griffiths, whom he defeated 13-10 in the quarter-final.
Jimmy had a relatively tough run to the final, beating number 19 Rex Williams, number 5 Eddie Charlton, number 4 Cliff Thorburn, and number 10 Kirk Stevens.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

Here's the link to the 84 WC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Worl ... ampionship

And here are the full rankings at the end of the 1983-84 season:
1 Steve Davis 15526
2 Jimmy White 8531
3 Kirk Stevens 7871
4 Cliff Thorburn 7582
5 Tony Knowles 7505
6 Terry Griffiths 6991
7 Tony Meo 6674
8 John Parrott 5929
9 Willie Thorne 5914
10 Dennis Taylor 5657
11 Eddie Charlton 4999
12 Joe Johnson 4799
13 Ray Reardon 4630
14 Silvino Francisco 4466
15 Doug Mountjoy 3884
16 John Spencer 3772
17 Mark Wildman 3761
18 Rex Williams 3529
19 Mario Morra 3428
20 Mike Hallett 3425
21 David Taylor 3325
22 Bill Werbeniuk 3151
23 Eugene Hughes 3075
24 Alex Higgins 3046
25 Neal Foulds 3042
26 Warren King 2720
27 John Virgo 2515
28 Cliff Wilson 2455
29 John Campbell 2430
30 Jim Wych 2318
31 Jim Donnelly 2289
32 Dave Martin 2268
33 Mike Watterson 2265
34 Eddie McLaughlin 2262
35 Eddie Sinclair 2133
36 Mick Fisher 2100
37 Ray Edmonds 2069
38 Roy Andrewartha 2048
39 Dean Reynolds 2030
40 Ian Williamson 1967
41 Tommy Murphy 1925
42 Paddy Morgan 1899
43 Marcel Gauvreau 1866
44 Paul Mifsud 1856
45 George Scott 1847
46 Colin Roscoe 1842
47 Murdo MacLeod 1797
48 Graham Miles 1732
49 Bill Oliver 1724
50 Pascal Burke 1718
51 Les Dodd 1625
52 Matt Gibson 1580
53 Jim Meadowcroft 1488
54 Paul Medati 1416
55 Graham Cripsey 1188
56 Fred Davis 1184
57 Tony Jones 1126
58 Frank Jonik 1103
59 Paddy Browne 1090
60 Bob Harris 1083
61 Bernie Mikkelsen 1058
62 Perrie Mans 1038
63 Billy Kelly 989
64 Steve Duggan 988
65 Geoff Foulds 964
66 Ian Black 948
67 Patsy Fagan 896
68 Jimmy van Rensberg 892
69 Bert Demarco 869
70 Doug French 864
71 Ian Anderson 817
72 George Ganim 781
73 John Dunning 771
74 Jack Fitzmaurice 768
75 Wayne Sanderson 728
76 Paul Watchorn 690
77 Mike Darrington 662
78 Bernard Bennett 661
79 John Hargreaves 628
80 Pat Houlihan 624
81 Mike Hines 608
82 Joe Cagianello 608
83 Dessie Sheehan 604
84 Vic Harris 544
85 John Bear 528
86 Dennis Hughes 516
87 David Greaves 450
88 Jackie Rea 385
89 Clive Everton 324
90 Paul Thornley 288
91 Leon Heywood 252
92 Gino Rigitano 252
93 Marcus Owen 232.5
94 Maurice Parkin 214
95 Gerry Watson 128
96 James Giannaros 36
97 Sid Hood 20
98 Roy Amdor 10
99 Derek Mienie 5

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

For interest, there were 3 other ranking events in the 83-84 season. Here were the results in the finals (rankings at the time in brackets):

International Open
Steve Davis (4) 9-4 Cliff Thorburn (7)

Professional Players Tournament
Tony Knowles (2) 9-8 Joe Johnson (24)

Classic
Steve Davis (2) 9-8 Tony Meo (8)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby Badsnookerplayer

Pascal Burke once lost a match at the UK 9-0 after turning up late having driven 300 miles and been involved in a car accident.

He arrived 90 minutes late.

He was deducted the first 8 frames and arrived in time for the last frame which he lost without potting a ball.

Bit of a rubbish snooker day really.

I mean we all have rubbish days and everything is relative but in the context of rubbish snooker days that must be up there. Although some old bloke had a heart attack in my snooker hall earlier this year. He survived but that is a rubbish snooker day. But he might have had other things on that day so might not class it as a rubbish snooker day - just a rubbish day. Burke will definitely remember his as a rubbish snooker day.

That said Burke might classify it as a rubbish car accident day.

See - everything is relative

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

We move into the 1984-85 season, in which there were a massive 5 (vidiprinter: FIVE) ranking events before the World Championship.
The rankings are starting to take shape.

The first event was the 1984 International Open. Here were the results from the Q-F stage onwards, with pre-tournament 'Chengdufan' rankings in brackets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_International_Open

Quarter-finals:
S Davis (1) 5-1 (24) A Higgins
E Hughes (23) 5-2 (9) W Thorne
T Knowles (5) 5-4 J White
S Francisco (14) w/o (10) De Taylor

Semi-finals:
S Davis (1) 9-3 (23) E Hughes
T Knowles (5) 9-6 (14) S Francisco

Final:
S Davis (1) 9-2 (5) T Knowles

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

The 1984 Grand Prix started two weeks later, at The Hexagon in Reading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Grand_Prix_(snooker)

Quarter-finals:
N Foulds (22) 5-2 Knowles (2)
De Taylor (9) 5-2 K Stevens (4)
Thorburn (5) 5-3 Mountjoy (16)
S Davis (1) 5-0 D Reynolds (36)

Semis:
Taylor (9) 9-3 Foulds (22)
Thorburn (5) 9-7 Davis (1)

Final:
Taylor (9) 10-2 Thorburn (5)

A huge win for Taylor in the final! I wonder whether his level dropped after the surprise win over Davis in the semis, or Dennis simply played out of his skin?

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby SnookerEd25

For anyone who is wondering, Dennis pulled out of the International Open before the QF stage due to the sudden death of his mother.

He was then close to pulling out of the Grand Prix too for the same reason, but was encouraged to enter by his family and ended up winning his first major title. He, of course, ended that emotional season by lifting the biggest prize of all.

Life is strange, isn't it?

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

The 1984 UK Championship was next, starting 3 weeks after the conclusion of the Grand Prix. it was classed as a ranking event for the first time (according to cuetracker).

For such a big event, let's look back at the results from the round of 16 onwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_UK_Championship

Last 16:
A Higgins (19) 9-7 Rex Williams (18)
Thorne (9) 9-7 Charlton (14)
Thorburn (3) 9-3 Cliff Wilson (41)
Reardon (16) 9-4 Da Taylor (23)
K Stevens (6) 9-2 J Johnson (15)
Knowles (4) 9-2 De Taylor (2)
J White (5) 9-2 Mountjoy (13)
S Davis (1) 9-7 Meo (7)

Q-F:
Higgins (19) 9-5 Thorne (9)
Thorburn (3) 9-8 Reardon (16) (would like to have watched that)
Stevens (6) 9-7 Knowles (4) (and that)
Davis (1) 9-4 White (5)

S-F
Higgins (19) 9-7 Thorburn (3)
Davis (1) 9-2 Stevens (6)

Final:
Davis (1) 18-6 Higgins (19)

Dennis Taylor has had an interesting season so far. He withdrew from the first event mid-tournament after winning two matches to get to the quarter-finals.
He won the second event.
And in this third event, he was thrashed 9-2 by Knowles in the last 16.

By reaching the final, Higgins jumped from 19th to 9th, regaining the top-16 spot he lost following the 1984 World Championship.
In terms of ranking points, the gap between Steve Davis in first and the rest of the pack continues to grow. He now has more than double the points of Cliff Thorburn in second (20537 v 10004).

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

SnookerEd25 wrote:For anyone who is wondering, Dennis pulled out of the International Open before the QF stage due to the sudden death of his mother.

He was then close to pulling out of the Grand Prix too for the same reason, but was encouraged to enter by his family and ended up winning his first major title. He, of course, ended that emotional season by lifting the biggest prize of all.

Life is strange, isn't it?

I was wondering. Thanks for clearing that up SnookerEd <ok>

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

We always think of Steve Davis as having dominated the 1980s. Looking at the ranking results so far though, it was only really from 1984 that he truly began to dominate.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

Next up is the 1985 Classic. This competition took place in rugby hotbed and home to many a Manchester United player over the years, Warrington.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Classic_(snooker)

Q-Fs:
S Davis (1) 5-1 Reardon (13)
Thorne (7) 5-3 Virgo (31)
Thorburn (2) 5-4 Griffiths (12)
J Johnson (14) 5-1 Warren King (21)

S-Fs:
Thorne (7) 9-8 Davis (1)
Thorburn (2) 9-2 Johnson (14)

Final:
Thorne (7) 13-8 Thorburn (2)

A great win for Willie Thorne! This turned out to be his only ranking title. It was richly deserved after beating no.1 Steve Davis in a deciding frame, and then no.2 Thorburn in the final.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

We're moving through the 84-85 season at breakneck pace. Cliff Wilson would approve, though Cliff Thorburn would probably wish we took a little more time!

The last event before the World Championship was the 1985 British Open.
This event was notable in that strangely, the qualifying round was played as a best of 11, while the early main event rounds were only best of 9.
Our tour of the UK continues as we move from Cheshire to Derbyshire. Not far from Yorkshire!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_British_Open

Q-Fs:
S Davis (1) 5-1 D O'Kane (49)
K Stevens (6) 5-2 De Taylor (7)
S Francisco (12) 5-4 Meo (10)
A Higgins (8) 5-2 E Hughes (19) (in Eugene Hughes' last 16 match v Murdo MacLeod, neither player made a 30+ break!! And Murdo had just battered previous tournament winner Willie Thorne 5-0 in the last 32!)

S-Fs:
Stevens (6) 9-7 Davis (1)
Francisco (12) 9-6 Higgins (8)

Final:
Francisco (12) 12-9 Stevens (6)

So Davis loses a close match again, this time to Kirk Stevens. And we have a final with no British players in. It will be 24 years before that happens again.
Silvino Francisco wins his one and only ranking event.

Did I say Steve Davis was dominating 1984? <doh>

Keen obsevers may be wondering why they haven't seen Bill Werbeniuk's name much in these late round round-ups.
He has been losing a lot recently, and is down to 63rd in my rankings!
Perrie Mans also seems to have given up. He's missed a few events and is down in 87th.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby SnookerEd25

chengdufan wrote:This event was notable in that strangely, the qualifying round was played as a best of 11, while the early main event rounds were only best of 9.


Yes, and I know the reason behind this too. This was to do with ITV having the live TV rights; they were concerned about potential overtime payments for their staff if matches over-ran and threatened to pull out unless the tournament reverted to the originally agreed BO9's. The qualifying competition had been played before Christmas 1984 and the final stages were in February '85. Negotiations were probably thrashed out in January...

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

Here is the draw for the first round of the 1985 World Championship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Worl ... ampionship

Seeded players listed first:

S Davis (1) v N Foulds (19)
David Taylor (28) v D O'Kane (32)
A Higgins (9) v D Reynolds (37)
Griffiths (12) v Rex Williams (17)
Reardon (13) v E Hughes (14)
Thorne (4) v P Fagan (85)
Spencer (33) v Parrott (15)
K Stevens (3) v Edmonds (55)
Thorburn (2) v Hallett (24)
Werbeniuk (63) v J Johnson (11)
Dennis Taylor (7) v S Francisco (6)
Charlton (20) v J Campbell (31)
J White (8) v Wayne Jones (50)
Meo (10) v Virgo (25)
Mountjoy (21) v M MacLeod (29)
Knowles (5) v Tony Jones (22)

Warren King (16) is the only top 16 player who has failed to qualify. He lost 10-9 to Paul Medati in the last 64.
Of the seeds, Dennis Taylor looks to have the toughest opening round draw, playing recent tournament winner Silvino Francisco.
Joe Johnson must be the happiest of the qualifiers, drawing the out-of-form Werbeniuk. He must surely be favourite in that match.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby Badsnookerplayer

SnookerEd25 wrote:For anyone who is wondering, Dennis pulled out of the International Open before the QF stage due to the sudden death of his mother.

He was then close to pulling out of the Grand Prix too for the same reason, but was encouraged to enter by his family and ended up winning his first major title. He, of course, ended that emotional season by lifting the biggest prize of all.

Life is strange, isn't it?

Just for clarity - all death is sudden.

It was a good post but I would not want other posters to become anxious and worry that their death might take a few minutes or even hours. The actual death is really quick. The run-in can be longer.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

Badsnookerplayer wrote:
SnookerEd25 wrote:For anyone who is wondering, Dennis pulled out of the International Open before the QF stage due to the sudden death of his mother.

He was then close to pulling out of the Grand Prix too for the same reason, but was encouraged to enter by his family and ended up winning his first major title. He, of course, ended that emotional season by lifting the biggest prize of all.

Life is strange, isn't it?

Just for clarity - all death is sudden.

It was a good post but I would not want other posters to become anxious and worry that their death might take a few minutes or even hours. The actual death is really quick. The run-in can be longer.

BSP, usually your attempts to educate the forum are spot on. More often than not, I'm delighted to read through your contributions. They are insightful.

On this occasion, I feel I have to jump in.
There is more than one meaning of the word 'sudden':
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sudden?s=t
And in this context, sudden means unexpected.
'Sudden death' is the most widely accepted collocation to describe a death which comes unexpectedly, as compared to a death people are expecting, such as when someone has cancer.

You may consider another example of a widely accepted collocation for comparison, 'heavy drinker'. If someone was described as a heavy drinker, we would not assume they were of a large weight.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

chengdufan wrote:Here is the draw for the first round of the 1985 World Championship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Worl ... ampionship

Seeded players listed first:

S Davis (1) v N Foulds (19)
David Taylor (28) v D O'Kane (32)
A Higgins (9) v D Reynolds (37)
Griffiths (12) v Rex Williams (17)
Reardon (13) v E Hughes (14)
Thorne (4) v P Fagan (85)
Spencer (33) v Parrott (15)
K Stevens (3) v Edmonds (55)
Thorburn (2) v Hallett (24)
Werbeniuk (63) v J Johnson (11)
Dennis Taylor (7) v S Francisco (6)
Charlton (20) v J Campbell (31)
J White (8) v Wayne Jones (50)
Meo (10) v Virgo (25)
Mountjoy (21) v M MacLeod (29)
Knowles (5) v Tony Jones (22)

Warren King (16) is the only top 16 player who has failed to qualify. He lost 10-9 to Paul Medati in the last 64.
Of the seeds, Dennis Taylor looks to have the toughest opening round draw, playing recent tournament winner Silvino Francisco.
Joe Johnson must be the happiest of the qualifiers, drawing the out-of-form Werbeniuk. He must surely be favourite in that match.


There were some big surprises in this tournament. Patsy Fagan rolled back the clock to reach the last 16. Bill Werbeniuk finally won a match, beating Joe in the first round. And some things of note happened in the final.

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

Here are the full rankings at the end of the 1984-85 season. Following the World Championship, Neal Foulds moves into the top 16 at the expense of Warren King.

1 Steve Davis 28637
2 Dennis Taylor 16735
3 Cliff Thorburn 14784
4 Kirk Stevens 12871
5 Tony Knowles 11851
6 Jimmy White 11569
7 Willie Thorne 10266
8 Alex Higgins 10173
9 Silvino Francisco 10127
10 Ray Reardon 9796
11 John Parrott 9121
12 Tony Meo 8601
13 Terry Griffiths 8198
14 Joe Johnson 6917
15 Eugene Hughes 6530
16 Neal Foulds 6487
17 Tony Jones 6467
18 Rex Williams 5942
19 Warren King 5833
20 Eddie Charlton 5659
21 Doug Mountjoy 5656
22 Marcel Gauvreau 5612
23 Steve Newbury 5439
24 Mike Hallett 5295
25 Dene O'Kane 4971
26 Danny Fowler 4769
27 John Virgo 4761
28 David Taylor 4627
29 Paul Medati 4453
30 Mario Morra 4299
31 Murdo MacLeod 4274
32 Wayne Jones 4250
33 Malcolm Bradley 4143
34 Ray Edmonds 3958
35 Cliff Wilson 3871
36 Patsy Fagan 3806
37 Dean Reynolds 3749
38 Peter Francisco 3744
39 John Campbell 3743
40 Geoff Foulds 3704
41 Steve Longworth 3500
42 Tony Chappel 3348
43 Dave Martin 3298
44 Tommy Murphy 3182
45 John Spencer 3164
46 Ian Williamson 3112
47 Gino Rigitano 3041
48 Paddy Browne 3035
49 Bill Werbeniuk 2963
50 Bob Chaperon 2884
51 Mark Wildman 2881
52 Jack McLaughlin 2878
53 Jim Wych 2870
54 Graham Miles 2800
55 Les Dodd 2731
56 Jim Donnelly 2701
57 Matt Gibson 2698
58 John Rea 2698
59 Eddie McLaughlin 2663
60 Roger Bales 2641
61 Eddie Sinclair 2513
62 Robby Foldvari 2387
63 George Scott 2354
64 Colin Roscoe 2197
65 Graham Cripsey 2160
66 Steve Duggan 2159
67 Bill Oliver 2136
68 Paul Watchorn 2125
69 Mick Fisher 2038
70 Vic Harris 1945
71 Roy Andrewartha 1941
72 Pascal Burke 1929
73 Fred Davis 1923
74 Paul Mifsud 1908
75 Dave Chalmers 1827
76 Bob Harris 1810
77 Bernie Mikkelsen 1809
78 Mike Watterson 1729
79 Jimmy van Rensberg 1685
80 Billy Kelly 1653
81 Jack Fitzmaurice 1606
82 John Hargreaves 1557
83 Jim Meadowcroft 1553
84 John Dunning 1500
85 Mike Hines 1444
86 Ian Black 1383
87 Dessie Sheehan 1337
88 Paddy Morgan 1330
89 Dennis Hughes 1319
90 Frank Jonik 1296
91 Tony Kearney 1232
92 Ian Anderson 1173
93 Doug French 1040
94 Perrie Mans 1004
95 Mike Darrington 930
96 Bert Demarco 863
97 Bernard Bennett 851
98 James Giannaros 751
99 David Greaves 749
100 Clive Everton 658
101 Pat Houlihan 549
102 Wayne Sanderson 546
103 Joe Cagianello 456
104 George Ganim 412
105 Maurice Parkin 381
106 Paul Thornley 369
107 Jackie Rea 344
108 Leon Heywood 221
109 John Bear 184
110 Derek Mienie 176
111 Gerry Watson 96
112 Marcus Owen 74

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

In terms of the makeup of the top 16, there are three differences between my rankings and the real rankings.
I have Parrott, Hughes and Foulds in at 11, 15 and 16. They are at 18, 21 and 23 in the real rankings.
Charlton, David Taylor, and Mountjoy are in the real top 16 at 12, 14 and 15, while I have those three at 20, 28 and 21.

Further down the rankings, the biggest differences are (my ranking first, real ranking second):
Tony Jones 17 - 50
Danny Fowler 26 - 55
Paul Medati 29 - 60
Peter Francisco 38 - 59
Geoff Foulds 40 - 78
Tony Chappel 42 - 68
Gino Rigitano 47 - 77
Bill Werbeniuk 49 - 17
Mark Wildman 51 - 25
Matt Gibson 57-81
Roger Bales 60 - 100
Eddie Sinclair 61 - 38
George Scott 63 - 41
Graham Cripsey 65 - 89
Paul Watchorn 68 - 93
Mike Watterson 78 - 42
Jim Meadowcroft 83 - 48
Ian Black 86 - 57
Perrie Mans 94 - 30!!
Jackie Rea 107 - 76

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

The first event of the 1985-86 season was the 1985 Matchroom Trophy, held in Stoke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Matchroom_Trophy

We see 11 new players introduced to the tour in this event, including 16 year-old Stephen Hendry, and Tony Drago. We also see players from Thailand (Sakchai Sim Ngam), India (Omprakash Agrawal) and the USA (Jim Rempe) for the first time.
Of the new players, Canadian Jim Bear progressed furthest, reaching the last 64.
Stephen Hendry won one match before losing to Eddie McLaughlin in the last 96.

World number 66 Steve Duggan had a good run in this competition, beating Ray Reardon and Willie Thorne on his way to the quarter-finals.

Cliff Thorburn beat Jimmy White in the final, coming back from 0-7 down.

QFs:
Thorburn (3) 5-2 Duggan (66)
Dennis Taylor (2) 5-1 Parrot (11)
J White (6) 5-3 S Davis (1)
N Foulds (16) 5-3 J Johnson (14)

SFs:
Thorburn (3) 9-5 Taylor (2)
White (6) 9-5 Foulds (16)

Final:
Thorburn (3) 12-10 White (6)

Re: Rankings revisit - a trip through history

Postby chengdufan

The players head south, back to Berkshire for the 1985 Grand Prix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Grand_Prix_(snooker)

The youngsters Tony Drago and Joe O'Boye did well, getting to the last 16 and last 32 respectively.

The final between Davis and Taylor went to a decider. I think that also happened in one of the earlier finals.
This one was to be the longest one day final in history, taking ten and a half hours.

QFs:
Dennis Taylor (2) 5-2 C Wilson (36)
Knowles (5) 5-2 K Stevens (6)
Thorburn (3) 5-1 Griffiths (13)
S Davis (1) 5-2 S Francisco (11)

SFs:
Taylor (2) 9-6 Knowles (5)
Davis (1) 9-5 Thorburn (3)

Final:
Davis (1) 10-9 Taylor (2)