Scunthorpe Blackpool The 1952 World Professional Match-play Championship was a snooker tournament held from 12 November 1951 to 15 March 1952, with the final taking...
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World War II, and again when the championship resumed in 1946, accumulating a total of 15 titles before retiring from the event. In 1952, the World Professional...
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Pulman in his semi-final loss to Davis. The World Professional Match-play Championship was created in 1952 as an alternative to the Billiards Association...
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World War II, and again when the championship resumed in 1946, accumulating a total of 15 titles before retiring from the event. In 1952, the World Professional...
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tournament with two breaks of 103 in the final. The World Professional Match-play Championship was created in 1952 as an alternative to the Billiards Association...
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Cliff Lazarenko (category 1952 births)
1995 World Matchplay, beating Dennis Smith, Shayne Burgess, and Nigel Justice along the way, before losing to Dennis Priestley. He was also a Matchplay quarter-finalist...
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1956/1957 News of the World Snooker Tournament, which had been a handicapped competition. With Fred Davis declining to enter the World Matchplay competition because...
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The World Professional Match-play Championship was a professional snooker tournament established in 1952 as an alternative to the professional World Snooker...
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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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series as the World Professional Match-play Championship, whilst snooker statistician Chris Turner views them, and the later World Matchplay events as distinct...
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Fred Davis (snooker player) (category World champions in English billiards)
Herald. 26 February 1952. p. 3. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020. Turner, Chris. "World Matchplay". cajt.pwp.blueyonder...
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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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Avtar Gill (darts player) (category 1952 births)
sets to Belgium's Frans Devooght. Gill played in 1997 on the PDC World Matchplay lost in the Last 40 to Andy Jenkins from England by 3–6. 1987: Last 32...
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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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Lexi Thompson (section World ranking)
streak of top 10s – 3 (twice) ^ Official as of June 16, 2024 * Includes matchplay and other events without a cut. 1 Earnings and top-10s prior to 2012 are...
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Steve Davis (category World number one snooker players)
1980s, when he reached eight World Snooker Championship finals in nine years, winning six world titles, and held the world number one ranking for seven...
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List of snooker tournaments (redirect from Snooker world ranking tournaments)
Tournament Event Format Location World Snooker Championship 1927–1940 (BACC) 1946–1952 (BACC) 1952–1957 (World Professional Match-play Championship) 1964–1968...
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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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Bobby Locke (category World Golf Hall of Fame inductees)
Professional, South African Open, Dunlop Masters £1,000 Tournament 1952 Stag £1,000 Matchplay, Stanley Motors 1,000 Guineas Tournament 1953 SANTA Open, Natal...
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Cliff Thorburn (category Winners of the professional snooker world championship)
Lindrum's 1952 title is usually disregarded—and he remains the only world champion from the Americas. He was runner-up in two other world championships...
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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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Andrew Flintoff (category Cricketers at the 1999 Cricket World Cup)
number of matches in the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship event. He returned to commentary during the 2012 World Matchplay, where he called Michael van Gerwen's...
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moved to Timperley and was only trying to qualify for the News of the World Matchplay, not being eligible for the Welsh Championship. Alfred Matthews, the...
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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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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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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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Amateur Championship: 1 (1963) Australian Women's Amateur Championship: 2 (1952, 1996) The course is consistently ranked within the top 3 courses in Australia...
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John Parrott (category Winners of the professional snooker world championship)
remained within the top 16 of the world rankings for fourteen consecutive seasons. He reached the final of the 1989 World Championship, where he lost 3–18...
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Joe Johnson (snooker player) (category 1952 births)
Joe Johnson (born 29 July 1952) is an English former professional snooker player and snooker commentator for Eurosport. He became the British under-19...
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2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013. Corrigan, James (22 February 2014). "WGC Matchplay 2014: Graeme McDowell's brave charge ends with defeat to young Frenchman...
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