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1989 World Snooker Championship

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Dates
  
15 April–1 May 1989

City
  
Sheffield

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

Venue
  
Crucible Theatre

Country
  
England

Format
  
Ranking event

The 1989 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 1989 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 15 April–1 May 1989 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

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Steve Davis won in the final 18–3 against John Parrott. This was Davis' sixth and last world title, and also his last appearance in the World Championship final. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.

Tournament summary

  • Davis won by the biggest margin ever at a World Snooker Championship when he beat John Parrott 18–3 in the final to win his sixth title to equal Ray Reardon's total since the competition was re-launched in 1969. The match ended with a session to spare.
  • Eddie Charlton defeated Cliff Thorburn 10–9 in the first round. The match ended at 2.40 a.m, and was the second latest finish at the Crucible. With this Charlton became at the age of 59 years and 169 days the second-oldest player to win a match at the World Championship, after Fred Davis in 1979.
  • Alex Higgins failed to qualify for the championship for the first time in his career, after he lost to Darren Morgan 8–10 in the final qualifying round, in which Morgan made his debut.

    • Prize fund

    The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

    Main draw

    Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers).

    Century breaks

    There were 19 century breaks in the 1989 World Snooker Championship. The highest break of the event was 141 made by Stephen Hendry. The highest break of the qualifying stage was 143 made by Darren Morgan.

    References

    1989 World Snooker Championship Wikipedia
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