• Jersey Blackpool The 1955 World Professional Match-play Championship was a professional snooker tournament, the fourth edition of the World Professional Match-play...
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  • The 1954 World Professional Match-play Championship was a professional snooker tournament held from 5 October 1953 to 6 March 1954 across various locations...
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  • 1952 to 1955. Joe Davis and Walter Donaldson played in the 1955/1956 News of the World Snooker Tournament, that took place from October 1955 to February...
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  • and the British PGA Matchplay Championship which faced a slow decline after the introduction of the British PGA Championship in 1955 (which had a stroke...
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  • 1988, Barry Hearn promoted an invitational tournament, called the World Matchplay, for the top twelve players in the provisional rankings. It was held...
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  • The British PGA Matchplay Championship was a match play golf tournament that began in 1903 and ran until 1979. Between 1903 and 1969, the event was sponsored...
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  • The first World Championships was in 1954, held in Helsinki where 58 men from 7 federations took part. The next three World Championships (1955, 1958, and...
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    Jack Burke Jr. (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
    Championship the format had been changed with 128 players competing in a pure matchplay format, players qualifying through a mixture of exemptions and sectional...
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    Ray Reardon (category World number one snooker players)
    Birmingham: Everton's News Agency. June 1976. p. 24. Turner, Chris (2008). "World Matchplay". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 28...
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  • John Pulman (category Winners of the professional snooker world championship)
    reached the final of the World Professional Match-play Championship, which was now effectively the world championship, in 1955. He defeated Rex Williams...
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    the Blackpool Dance Festival since its inception in 1920, and the World Matchplay darts tournament since 1994. The annual dance competitions Miss Dance...
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  • tournament would be added to the schedule the World Doubles Championship replaced in 1988 with the World Matchplay which would give ITV four tournaments a year...
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  • Fred Davis (snooker player) (category World champions in English billiards)
    original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020. Turner, Chris. "World Matchplay". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived...
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  • the world of multiple events being broadcast on both the BBC and ITV. 1987 No events. 1988 ITV broadcasts all five editions of the World Matchplay tournament...
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    Gary Player (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
    Sources: 1955 Egyptian Matchplay 1965 World Series of Golf, NTL Challenge Cup (Canada), World Cup of Golf, World Cup of Golf Individual Trophy 1968 World Series...
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    Masters 1988/89–1990/91 Invitational England (Café Royal, London) World Matchplay 1988/89–1992/93 (Matchroom event) Invitational England 1988/89–1990/91...
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    Stephen Hendry (category World number one snooker players)
    through the snooker world rankings, reaching number four in the world by the end of his third professional season. He won his first World Snooker Championship...
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  • Tony Payne (darts) (category 1955 births)
    divide where he was one of eleven Americans invited to play in the PDC World Matchplay. He lost in the first round to Singapore Paul Lim. After that, Payne...
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  • Jamie Harvey (category 1955 births)
    Priestley. Later that year he also reached the semi-finals of the World Matchplay – losing 9–13 to eventual champion Peter Evison. He never made the...
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  • Rules of the Games of Snooker and English Billiards" (PDF). wpbsa.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original...
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  • Rex Williams (category World champions in English billiards)
    Williams and Fred Davis played a 51 match series that was billed as the World Open Matchplay Snooker Challenge, even though no other entries were solicited.: 41 ...
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    Harry Vardon (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
    Montrose Open (Sco) 1906 Musselburgh Tournament (Sco), News of the World Matchplay Southern Section qualifying at Stanmore (tie with James Braid) (Eng)...
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  • The winner also received entry to the final stage of the News of the World Matchplay. The winner was the Llandudno professional Fred Collins on 153. Collins...
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    Alex Higgins (category Winners of the professional snooker world championship)
    July 2010) was a Northern Irish professional snooker player and a two-time world champion who is remembered as one of the most iconic figures in the sport's...
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    James Braid (golfer) (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
    1901, 1905, 1906, 1908 and 1910. In addition, Braid won four British PGA Matchplay Championships (1903, 1905, 1907 and 1911), as well as the 1910 French...
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    Steve Davis (category World number one snooker players)
    1980s, when he reached eight World Snooker Championship finals in nine years, won six world titles, and held the world number one ranking for seven consecutive...
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    Bobby Locke (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
    Matchplay, Stanley Motors 1,000 Guineas Tournament 1953 SANTA Open, Natal Open 1954 SANTA Open, Transvaal Open, Mills 1,000 Guineas Tournament 1955 Transvaal...
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  • also the northern section qualifying competition for the News of the World Matchplay. Soon afterwards he finished tied for 4th place in the Daily Mirror...
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    Cliff Thorburn (category Winners of the professional snooker world championship)
    won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, defeating Alex Higgins 18–16 in the final. He is generally recognised as the sport's first world champion...
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  • Tony Knowles (snooker player) (category 1955 births)
    England team with Davis and Tony Meo, the 1983 World Team Classic. Tony Knowles was born in Bolton on 13 June 1955. He began playing snooker at the age of 9...
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