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Logo of the Snooker Legends tour. The Snooker Legends [1] was created in 2009 by Jason Francis [2] at Premier Stage Productions [3] to stage events for retired and current snooker players to play exhibition matches once again in some of snooker's most iconic venues. In 2017, Snooker Legends promoted and held its first professional event the ...
The tour was created and run by the company Snooker Legends in 2017, after it first staged the 2017 World Seniors Championship.. The World Seniors Tour began with a series of four non-ranking events in the 2017–18 season: the UK Seniors Championship, the Seniors Irish Masters, the Seniors Masters and the World Seniors Championship.
He was the surprise winner of the 2018 World Seniors Championship, beating Dennis Taylor along the way.. He beat Patrick Wallace 4–3 in the final. [1] He won £10,000, and competed in the following World Snooker Championship qualifiers, losing 10–1 to Robert Milkins in the first round.
In 2011 he returned to the Crucible Theatre for the first time since 1988 to play in a "Snooker Legends" exhibition event. [5] On September 23, 2019, Jimmy White published an apology to Stevens on White's official Facebook page stating that in his autobiography Second Wind he misremembered a few stories as occurring with Stevens that in fact ...
The World Snooker Championship originally was the only event to offer ranking points, until the 1982 International Open. [4] Over the next 22 seasons, five men held the first position; Reardon (1976/77 to 1980/81), Cliff Thorburn , Reardon again for 1982/83 [note 1], Steve Davis (1983/84 to 1989/90) and Stephen Hendry (1990/91 to 1997/98).
The 2019 Seniors Masters was a senior snooker tournament, that took place on 11 April 2019 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the fourth event on the 2018/2019 World Seniors Tour. [1] [2] A qualifying tournament took place from 8 to 10 March at the Northern Snooker Center in Leeds. [3]
The 1977 World Snooker Championship was the first to be held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Thorburn became the first Canadian world snooker championship finalist. He whitewashed Chris Ross 11–0 in qualifying, then recorded a 13–6 win over Williams. In the quarter-final, he won in the deciding frame, 13–12, against Charlton. [15]
The minimum age for the event returned to 40 years. All former World Seniors Champions and World Snooker Champions, who registered for the event, were seeded through to Blackpool, and the remaining places were filled through a qualifying event. [13] In 2017 and 2018 it was held for non-tour players aged 40 or over at the beginning of the year ...