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1995 World Snooker Championship

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Dates
  
14–30 April 1995

City
  
Sheffield

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

Venue
  
Crucible Theatre

Country
  
England

Format
  
Ranking event

The 1995 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 1995 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14–30 April 1995 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

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Before the first round match between Jimmy White and Peter Francisco, there were unusual gambling patterns on a 10–2 win for White and betting was suspended shortly before the match. A betting investigation was held and Francisco was banned for five years.

Stephen Hendry won his fifth world title beating Nigel Bond 18–9. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.

Prize fund

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

  • Winner: £190,000
  • Runner-up: £115,000
  • Semi-final: £57,000
  • Quarter-final: £29,000
  • Last 16: £15,500
  • Last 32: £8,750
  • Highest break: £16,000
  • Maximum break: £147,000
  • Total: £1,132,000
  • 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 30 centuries in the 1995 Embassy World Championship. Stephen Hendry made the third maximum break in the championship's history and became the first to go on to win the title after making a 147 break. Hendry's 12 centuries in the tournament beat the record of 10 set by Joe Davis in 1946 and equalled his own record for a ranking event, set at the 1994 UK Championship.

  • 147, 133, 128, 124, 121, 119, 114, 105, 103, 103, 101, 100 Stephen Hendry
  • 136, 117, 100 Andy Hicks
  • 129, 123, 115, 110 John Parrott
  • 117 Tony Drago
  • 115, 111, 101 Nigel Bond
  • 112, 111 Ronnie O'Sullivan
  • 108, 107 Peter Ebdon
  • 103 Dave Harold
  • 100 Alan McManus
  • 100 Darren Morgan
  • References

    1995 World Snooker Championship Wikipedia