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1992 World Snooker Championship

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Dates
  
18 April–4 May 1992

City
  
Sheffield

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

Venue
  
Crucible Theatre

Country
  
England

Format
  
Ranking event

The 1992 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 1992 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 18 April and 4 May 1992 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

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Stephen Hendry was the eventual winner, after defeating Jimmy White 18–14 in the final. At one point White led by 14–8, but Hendry then won 10 successive frames to secure his second World Championship title. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.

Tournament summary

  • Debutants at the Crucible this year were Peter Ebdon, Mark Johnston-Allen, Mick Price, Chris Small, Stephen Murphy, Nigel Bond and James Wattana. Ebdon, Price, Small and Wattana reached the second round.
  • Jimmy White became only the second player ever to compile a maximum break at the Crucible, during his 10–4 first round win over Tony Drago, nine years after Cliff Thorburn's maximum in 1983. The highest break of the qualifying stage was 141 made by Joe Johnson.
  • Hendry secured a record in the semi-final, when he beat Terry Griffiths 16–4. This was the biggest semi-final victory at the World Championship, until it was superseded in 2004 by Ronnie O'Sullivan, who defeated Hendry 17–4.
  • Steve Davis' 4–10 defeat to qualifier Ebdon was his first defeat in the opening round since 1982. It also ended his nine-year streak of reaching at least the semi-finals of the tournament.
  • The 10–0 win by defending champion John Parrott over Eddie Charlton is the only whitewash in the history of the Crucible.
  • Eight of the sixteen seeded players exited the tournament in the first round. This did not happen again until 2012.

    • 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 25 century breaks in the championship.

    References

    1992 World Snooker Championship Wikipedia
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