1992 World Snooker Championship Explained

Tournament Name:	Embassy World Snooker Championship
Venue:	Crucible Theatre
Location:	Sheffield
Country:	England
Organisation:	WPBSA
Format:	Ranking event
Total Prize Fund:	£850,000
Winners Share:	£150,000
Highest Break:	(147)
Score:	18–14
Previous:	1991
Next:	1993

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.

John Parrott was the defending champion but he lost 12–13 to Alan McManus in the quarter-finals and fell to the Crucible curse, becoming another champion unable to defend his first world title.

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.^[1] The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.

Tournament summary

• Debutants at the Crucible this year were Peter Ebdon,^[2] Mark Johnston-Allen,^[3] Mick Price,^[4] Chris Small,^[5] Stephen Murphy,^[6] Nigel Bond^[7] and James Wattana.^[8] Ebdon, Price, Small and Wattana reached the second round.
• Steve Davis' 4–10 defeat to qualifier Ebdon was his first loss in the opening round since 1982. It also ended his nine-year streak of reaching at least the semi-finals of the tournament.^[9]
• 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.^[10] The highest break of the qualifying stage was 141 made by Joe Johnson.
• The 10–0 win by defending champion John Parrott over Eddie Charlton in the first round was the first-ever in Crucible history.^{[1] [11]} There would not be another whitewash until Shaun Murphy's 10–0 defeat of Luo Honghao in 2019.^[12]
• Eight of the sixteen seeded players exited the tournament in the first round. This did not happen again until 2012.^[13]
• Stephen 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 This was the biggest semi-final victory at the World Championship, until it was superseded by Ronnie O'Sullivan in 2004 when he defeated Hendry 17–4.^[14]
• The final was notable for Hendry producing a massive comeback to overturn a sizeable deficit against White: Hendry trailed 8–14 during the third session, before winning ten consecutive frames to take his second world title with an 18–14 victory. This match was showcased on BBC Two on 24 April 2020, one of the "Crucible Classics" shown in place of the 2020 World Snooker Championship which was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.^[15]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:^{[16] [17]}

• Winner: £150,000
• Runner-up: £90,000
• Semi-final: £45,000
• Quarter-final: £22,500
• Last 16: £12,000
• Last 32: £6,500
• Last 48: £5,000
• Last 64: £3,000
• Last 96: £1,375

• Last 128: £750
• Last 155: £500
• Qualifying stage highest break: £4,000
• Televised stage highest break: £14,000
• Televised stage maximum break: £100,000
• Total: £850,000

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).^{[16] [18] [19] [20]}

Century breaks

There were 25 century breaks in the championship.^{[21] [22]}

• 147, 135, 134, 104, 101, 100 Jimmy White
• 134, 130, 128, 112, 105, 103 Stephen Hendry
• 134, 108, 108 Peter Ebdon
• 132, 117 Neal Foulds
• 132 Mick Price
• 129 Nigel Bond

• 114, 107 Dene O'Kane
• 114 Dean Reynolds
• 110 Chris Small
• 108 Tony Knowles
• 106 Willie Thorne

Notes and References

1. News: 1992: Hendry on top. BBC Sport. 10 June 2012. 18 April 2003.
2. Web site: Peter Ebdon at the World Championship. Snooker Database. 10 June 2012. 5 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305220726/http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?PlayerKey=18&tourns=WC&plStat=2#PlayerResults. dead.
3. Web site: Mark Johnston Allen at the World Championship. Snooker Database. 10 June 2012. 4 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161004150628/http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?PlayerKey=151&tourns=WC&plStat=2#PlayerResults. dead.
4. Web site: Mick Price at the World Championship. Snooker Database. 10 June 2012. 4 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161004150418/http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?PlayerKey=150&tourns=WC&plStat=2#PlayerResults. dead.
5. Web site: Chris Small at the World Championship. Snooker Database. 10 June 2012. 4 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161004150601/http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?PlayerKey=45&tourns=WC&plStat=2#PlayerResults. dead.
6. Web site: Stephen Murphy at the World Championship. Snooker Database. 10 June 2012. 4 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161004150606/http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?PlayerKey=153&tourns=WC&plStat=2#PlayerResults. dead.
7. Web site: Nigel Bond at the World Championship. Snooker Database. 10 June 2012. 4 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161004150529/http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?PlayerKey=30&tourns=WC&plStat=2#PlayerResults. dead.
8. Web site: James Wattana at the World Championship. Snooker Database. 10 June 2012. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222208/http://www.snookerdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?PlayerKey=34&tourns=WC&plStat=2#PlayerResults. dead.
9. Web site: Steve Davis at the World Championships. Snooker Database. 11 May 2012.
10. Web site: Turner. Chris. Maximum Breaks. https://web.archive.org/web/20130210111304/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Max.html. 10 February 2013. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. 2 April 2010.
11. Web site: Maguire Ends Brecel Crucible Dream. worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 11 May 2012.
12. News: World Championship 2019: Shaun Murphy records 10-0 win at Crucible. BBC.co.uk. BBC. 22 April 2019.
13. Web site: World Snooker Championship 2012: Ken Doherty Q&A . . 26 April 2012 . 27 April 2012.
14. News: Yates. Phil. Unstoppable O'Sullivan. The Guardian. 11 May 2012. London. 2 May 2004.
15. Web site: World Snooker Championship: Stephen Hendry & Steve Davis relive Crucible classics . Shamoon . Hafez . Owen . Phillips . 17 April 2020 . BBC Sport . 23 April 2020.
16. Web site: World Championship 1992. Global Snooker. 28 October 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110310182301/http://www.global-snooker.com/professional-snooker-tournaments-archive-world-championship-1992.asp. 10 March 2011. dead.
17. Book: Downer, Chris. Crucible Almanac. 2012. 130.
18. Web site: 1992 World Championships Results. Snooker Database. 28 October 2010. 27 August 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110827122057/http://snookerdatabase.co.uk/EventResultGrid.aspx?EventKey=20. dead.
19. 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. 14 June 2012.
20. Book: Downer, Chris. Crucible Almanac. 2012. 34–35.
21. 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.
22. Book: Downer, Chris. Crucible Almanac. 2012. 147.