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1991 World Snooker Championship

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Dates
  
20 April–6 May 1991

City
  
Sheffield

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

Venue
  
Crucible Theatre

Country
  
England

Format
  
Ranking event

The 1991 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 1991 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 20 April and 6 May 1991 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

Contents

John Parrott won his only World Championship title by defeating Jimmy White 18–11 in the final. It was the third time that White had lost in the final after 1984 and 1990. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.

Tournament summary

  • Future champion Ken Doherty made his Crucible debut losing to Steve Davis 8–10, whilst former champion Joe Johnson qualified for the last time losing to Dennis Taylor 6–10. Both matches were played in the first round.
  • Cliff Thorburn failed to qualify for the first time after playing in every championship since 1973.
  • Defending champion Stephen Hendry lost to Steve James 11–13 in the quarter-final. Hendry would not suffer defeat at the Crucible again until the 1997 final against Doherty.
  • Steve Davis made his 9th semi-final in a row, which is still a record, but lost 10–16 against John Parrott.

    • Prize fund

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

  • Winner: £135,000
  • Runner-up: £80,000
  • Semi-final: £42,000
  • Quarter-final: £20,000
  • Last 16: £11,000
  • Last 32: £6,500
  • Highest break: £12,000
  • Maximum break: £100,000
  • Total: £750,000

    • 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 31 century breaks in the championship. The highest break of the tournament was 140 made by Jimmy White.

    References

    1991 World Snooker Championship Wikipedia
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