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The All-Star World Championship: Results

Postby Pink Ball » 17 Apr 2020 Read

The people have voted, selecting their 16 favourite first-round matches; eight second-round matches; four quarter finals; two semi-finals; and a final. Ties were settled by using my 'Top 125 matches of all-time' list. This is the final line-up, with eight matches from the '80s; four from the '90s; 10 from the '00s; and nine from the '10s.

First round:
1984: Neal Foulds 10-9 Alex Higgins
1985: Steve Davis 10-8 Neal Foulds
1987: Joe Johnson 10-9 Eugene Hughes
1989: Stephen Hendry 10-9 Gary Wilkinson
1994: Nigel Bond 10-9 Cliff Thorburn
1999: Stephen Hendry 10-8 Paul Hunter
2000: David Gray 10-9 Ronnie O'Sullivan
2001: Joe Swail 10-9 Shaun Storey
2003: Ken Doherty 10-9 Shaun Murphy
2005: Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-9 Stephen Maguire
2006: Nigel Bond 10-9 Stephen Hendry
2010: Stephen Hendry 10-9 Zhang Anda
2011: Judd Trump 10-8 Neil Robertson
2013: Dechawat Poomjaeng 10-9 Stephen Maguire
2017: Marco Fu 10-9 Luca Brecel
2019: James Cahill 10-8 Ronnie O'Sullivan

Second round:
1983: Cliff Thorburn 13-12 Terry Griffiths
1983: Tony Knowles 13-12 Ray Reardon
1988: Jimmy White 13-12 Stephen Hendry
2001: Joe Swail 13-12 Mark Williams
2003: Ken Doherty 13-12 Graeme Dott
2010: Steve Davis 13-11 John Higgins
2010: Neil Robertson 13-12 Martin Gould
2016: Barry Hawkins 13-12 Ronnie O'Sullivan

Quarter-finals:
1996: Ronnie O’Sullivan 13-12 John Higgins
2002: Stephen Hendry 13-12 Ken Doherty
2009: John Higgins 13-12 Mark Selby
2018: John Higgins 13-12 Judd Trump

Semi-finals:
1999: Stephen Hendry 17-13 Ronnie O’Sullivan
2003: Ken Doherty 17-16 Paul Hunter

Final:
1985: Dennis Taylor 18-17 Steve Davis

Re: The All-Star World Championship: Results

Postby mick745 » 17 Apr 2020 Read

Does anyone know if there is any coverage still existing of the first session of the 1985 final.

Absolutely every single time there are any highlights shown it starts in frame 8 - i wouldn't actually mind watching Davis at his best for the first seven frames.

Grandstand was on BBC1 that afternoon and a first session highlights programme was on 1710-1815 on BBC2.

I wonder if the BBC still hold it?

Re: The All-Star World Championship: Results

Postby SnookerFan » 17 Apr 2020 Read

mick745 wrote:Does anyone know if there is any coverage still existing of the first session of the 1985 final.

Absolutely every single time there are any highlights shown it starts in frame 8 - i wouldn't actually mind watching Davis at his best for the first seven frames.

Grandstand was on BBC1 that afternoon and a first session highlights programme was on 1710-1815 on BBC2.

I wonder if the BBC still hold it?


Yes, I wonder.

I can't imagine they'd deliberately delete footage, considering that they've been promoting this as the greatest match in history ever since. But technology was different in those days. So I don't know if the whole match was filmed, shown and kept or not. I was only a kid when it happened. I would assume the whole final was shown live, but that's all it is. An assumption.

Re: The All-Star World Championship: Results

Postby SnookerEd25 » 17 Apr 2020 Read

As I recall, the BBC had extensive live coverage of the WC afternoon sessions throughout the 80s, usually starting around 1130 with a catchup of the morning sessions which had started an hour before (1000 now) and running through 'til about half 5, but in the evening you'd have pretty much what we have now on the channel itself - an hour at the start of the session then just the late night highlights after Newsnight; but at least now we have the Internet and red buttons to gorge over. I was pretty sure they showed the World Finals in full, but that could be memory playing tricks.

However, when Joe Johnson famously announced that his kids had taped over a large chunk of his recording of the '86 final (with episodes of He-Man), the BBC sent him a replacement of the whole final, copied from the master tapes. If they have the '86 final in full, I'm pretty sure they'd have '85 too.

Re: The All-Star World Championship: Results

Postby SnookerFan » 17 Apr 2020 Read

SnookerEd25 wrote:As I recall, the BBC had extensive live coverage of the WC afternoon sessions throughout the 80s, usually starting around 1130 with a catchup of the morning sessions which had started an hour before (1000 now) and running through 'til about half 5, but in the evening you'd have pretty much what we have now on the channel itself - an hour at the start of the session then just the late night highlights after Newsnight; but at least now we have the Internet and red buttons to gorge over. I was pretty sure they showed the World Finals in full, but that could be memory playing tricks.

However, when Joe Johnson famously announced that his kids had taped over a large chunk of his recording of the '86 final (with episodes of He-Man), the BBC sent him a replacement of the whole final, copied from the master tapes. If they have the '86 final in full, I'm pretty sure they'd have '85 too.


That was nice of them.
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