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The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927, and played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season.
The World Women's Snooker Championship (known as the Women's World Open from 1976 to 1981 and the World Ladies Snooker Championship from 1983 to 2018) is the longest-running and most prestigious tournament on the World Women's Snooker Tour. Staged 41 times since the inaugural edition in 1976, it has produced 15 different champions, six of whom ...
In 1980 and 1981, 24 players competed in the final stages at the Crucible; the top eight seeds had a bye in the first round while seeds 9 to 16 played in the first round against eight qualifiers. From 1977 to 1979, the first three years at the Crucible, there were only 16 players in the final stages, eight seeds playing eight qualifiers in the ...
[1] [2] At the time, many billiard halls in the UK did not admit women. [3] [4] Later that year, the firm announced a Women's Amateur Billiards Championship. [5] The first rounds would be played at regional venues, with the regional winners qualifying for the semi-finals and final at Burroughes Hall in London.
It will mark the 49th consecutive year that the tournament has been held at the Crucible, and the 57th successive year that the World Championship had been contested through the modern knockout format. [9] [13] [14] Kyren Wilson will be the defending champion, having defeated Jak Jones 18–14 in the 2024 final to win his first world ...
The Players' Championship, currently known as the Princess Auto Players' Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the final event of the Grand Slam of Curling tour, and is formerly the championship of the World Curling Tour season. From 2016 to 2019, it was the penultimate slam of the curling season, and the last of the four "majors". [1]
This was the 39th consecutive year that the tournament had been held at the Crucible, and it was the 47th successive world championship to be contested through the knockout format after reverting from a challenge match system in the 1960s. [6] [a] The top 16 players in the world rankings automatically qualified for the main draw as seeded players.
The final was played as a best-of-35 frames match at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, on 19 and 20 April 1981, refereed by John Williams. Two sessions were held each day. [27] Davis won the match by 18 frames to 12. [27] Both players compiled one century break during the final; Mountjoy compiled a 129, and Davis made a 119.