• The 1986 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 1986 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional...
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  • of the 1985 Classic (losing to Cliff Thorburn). Johnson began the 1986 World Snooker Championship as a 150–1 outsider, with first-round losses in both...
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    with Alex Higgins. White has won two of snooker's three majors: the UK Championship (in 1992) and the Masters (in 1984) and a total of ten ranking events...
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    professional snooker circuit, are not required to pre-qualify for some of the tournaments, such as the Shanghai Masters, the Masters and the World Snooker Championship...
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    Ronnie O'Sullivan (category Masters (snooker) champions)
    Brecel to win Shanghai Masters". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 September 2023. "Rocket Soars To Eighth Masters Crown". World Snooker Tour. 14 January 2024....
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  • "Snooker Loopy" is a novelty song released as a single in May 1986, and entered the UK Singles Chart, reaching #6. It was written and performed by Chas...
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    Mark Selby (category Masters (snooker) champions)
    of ranking tournament winners. He is a four-time World Snooker Champion, and has won the Masters three times and the UK Championship twice for a total...
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  • Championships, as well as several other high-profile snooker tournaments and in 1979 the Australian Masters was established. There was an attempt to turn the...
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    September 1969) is an Irish professional snooker player from Dublin. He has won six ranking titles and was World Snooker Champion in 1997. In addition to his...
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  • which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself...
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    This is a list of professional and alternative format snooker tournaments. Professional snooker tournaments can take the form of ranking tournaments—which...
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    Luca Brecel (category Belgian snooker players)
    tournaments, reaching the final of the Shanghai Masters, and the inaugurual World Masters of Snooker in Riyadh, losing to O'Sullivan in both occasions:...
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  • was a professional snooker tournament held from 1 to 13 April in Saint Helier, Jersey. This was the 1957 edition of the World Snooker Championship, first...
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    billiards Russian pyramid Snooker Six-red snooker American snooker Brazilian snooker Volunteer snooker Snooker plus Power Snooker Bottle pool Cowboy pool...
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  • (CCTV5+) Premiership Rugby (CCTV5+) Snooker World Snooker Championship Shanghai Masters (snooker) China Open (snooker) UK Championship Surfing America's...
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    Cue stick (redirect from Snooker cue)
    specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. It is used...
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  • London Nottingham Liverpool Birmingham The 1927 World Snooker Championship was a snooker tournament held at several venues from 29 November 1926 to 12...
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  • also a regular presenter of the Triple Crown snooker tournaments (the World Snooker Championship, the Masters and the UK Championship) since 2002 and has...
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  • held in the even years from 2000 to 2010. The World Masters Championships (also known as 'Masters Worlds) is open to athletes 25 years and above (30+...
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    Peter Ebdon (category Snooker players from London)
    Peter David Ebdon (born 27 August 1970) is an English retired professional snooker player who is a former world champion and current coach. Ebdon won nine...
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    David Harold (born 9 December 1966) is an English former professional snooker player from Stoke-on-Trent. He was known by the nicknames of "the Hard Man"...
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  • held in Barcelona, Spain. Men's professional Masters Tournament – Jack Nicklaus becomes the oldest Masters winner (age 46), and wins his last major golf...
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    (snooker player) Shailesh Jogia (snooker player) Joe O'Connor (snooker player) Mark Selby (snooker player; the 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2021 world snooker...
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    fisheries (1982–1986), and three-times TD. Ildefonso Dell'Olmo, 67, Spanish politician and bullfighting arena president (Plaza de toros de La Malagueta)...
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    Spanish mathematician and astronomer Maria Catalano (born 1982), English snooker player María Eugenia Catalfamo (born 1987), Argentine politician María...
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    was in Give Us a Break, devised by Geoff McQueen, McGann played a good snooker player who got into scrapes with Robert Lindsay, who played his wideboy...
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  • from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2016. Classic Snooker review". Computer Gamer. Issue 24 (March, 1987): 27. March 1987 "Cuthbert...
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  • (born 1979), English snooker player Allister Coetzee (born 1963), South African rugby union coach and former player Allister de Winter (born 1968), Australian...
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    and the Italians, Il merlo maschio), COVID-19. Ray Reardon, 91, Welsh snooker player, six-time world champion, cancer. Eliyahu Rips, 75, Israeli mathematician...
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  • snooker player Jamie Crombie (born 1965), American-Canadian squash player Jamie Cullum (born 1979), English pianist, singer, and songwriter Jamie DeWolf...
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