1995 World Snooker Championship Explained
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 and 30 April 1995 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.
Overview
- Stephen Hendry won his fifth world title beating Nigel Bond 18–9. This was Hendry's fourth consecutive title, breaking Steve Davis' previous Crucible record of three.
- Hendry made the third 147 maximum break in the history of the tournament during his semi-final against Jimmy White.
- 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.[1]
- Future world champion John Higgins made his debut in this tournament. He lost in the first round to Alan McManus. Another debutant, Andy Hicks, reached the semi-finals, knocking out six time former champion (and #2 seed) Steve Davis en route.
- Until 2020 this was the last World Championship to start on a Friday and finish on a Sunday, rather than starting on a Saturday and finishing on the "May Day" Bank Holiday, the first Monday in May, as is tradition.
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[2] [3]
- 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).[2] [4] [5] [6]
Century breaks
There were 30 centuries in the 1995 Embassy World Championship.[2] [7] [8] 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.[9] 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.[10]
- 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
Notes and References
- Web site: Snooker 'match fixing' probe into Scots duo Stephen Maguire & Jamie Burnett dropped . . 11 May 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110729022211/http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/snooker/2011/05/18/snooker-duo-stephen-maguire-jamie-burnett-avoid-charges-over-match-fixing-allegations-86908-23139294/ . 29 July 2011 .
- Web site: 1995 Embassy World Championship. Snooker.org. 28 October 2010.
- Book: Downer, Chris. Crucible Almanac. 2012. 130.
- Web site: 1995 Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship. Snooker.org. 27 March 2011.
- Web site: Embassy World Championship. https://web.archive.org/web/20130124071753/http://www.snookerscene.co.uk/page.php?id=36. 24 January 2013. Snooker Scene. 7 May 2012.
- Book: Downer, Chris. Crucible Almanac. 2012. 40–41.
- Web site: Crucible Centuries . Snooker.org . 3 April 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110523045039/http://www.snooker.org/plr/wc_centuries.shtml . 23 May 2011 .
- Book: Downer, Chris. Crucible Almanac. 2012. 148.
- Web site: Turner. Chris. World Professional Championship. https://web.archive.org/web/20130416080933/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/world.html. 16 April 2013. cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. 11 May 2012.
- Book: Eric, Hayton. The CueSport Book of Professional Snooker: The Complete Record & History. 2004. Rose Villa Publications. London. 978-0-9548549-0-4.
