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The good attendances for the championship match led to John Player deciding to sponsor the 1969 World Snooker Championship as a knock-out format tournament, [11] using their "Players No. 6" brand. [12] The 1969 championship is regarded as the first of the modern snooker era, and was won by John Spencer, who defeated Gary Owen 37–24 in the final.
Spencer took on professional status in February 1967, becoming the first UK player to do so since Rex Williams in 1951. [9] Spencer was encouraged to turn professional because of the income he could expect to earn from performing regular exhibition matches for the National Spastics Society at £14 a time (equivalent to £321 in 2023), and at Pontins holiday camps during the summer season for a ...
This is a list of notable amateur and professional snooker players, past and present. Players currently on the World Snooker Tour are shown in bold text with a following †. A
1977 in snooker (13 P) 1978 in snooker (16 P) 1979 in snooker (22 P) This page was last edited on 5 September 2020, at 14:13 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Player Country Debut Last appearance Total appearances Best John Pulman England 1969: 1980: 11 Runner-up (×1 – 1970) John Spencer England 1969: 1986: 18 Winner (×3 – 1969, 1971, 1977) Rex Williams England 1969: 1988: 15 Semi-final (×3 – 1969, 1972, 1974) Bernard Bennett England 1969: 1974: 4 Quarter-final (×1 – 1969) Gary Owen Wales ...
The 1969 World Snooker Championship (also known as the Player's No.6 World Snooker Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a professional snooker tournament. It was the first World Snooker Championship in a knock-out format since 1957 , following a series of challenge matches from 1964 to 1968 .
This is a list of professional snooker players ordered by the number of "ranking titles" they have won. A ranking title is a tournament that counts towards the snooker world rankings. World rankings were introduced in the 1976–77 season, initially based on the results from the previous three World Championships.
Desmond Rex Williams BEM (born 20 July 1933) is an English retired professional billiards and snooker player. He was the second player to make an official maximum break in snooker, achieving this in an exhibition match in December 1965.