1985 Kit Kat Break for World Champions

Professional invitational snooker tournament April 2022 Kit Kat Break for World Champions 1985 12 17 1985 12 20 y East Midlands Conference Centre Nottingham England WPBSA Non-Ranking event £30,000 £10,000 126 (Dennis Taylor) NIR Dennis Taylor ENG Steve Davis 9–5 first last The 1985 Kit Kat Break for World Champions was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place from 17 to 20 December 1985.Sport in brief: snooker The Times London 17 December 1985Sport in brief: snooker The Times London 21 December 1985 Dennis Taylor won the event by defeating Steve Davis 9–5 in the final. The tournament was played at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham, with all eight of the actively playing winners of the World Snooker Championship as the participants. Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor met in a final for the third time this season. Davis' 10–9 victory in the 1985 Grand Prix had been followed by Taylor's 9–5 win in the 1985 Canadian Masters. Davis achieved a 4–3 lead by the end of the first session of the Kit Kat Break for World Champions final, but Taylor won six of the next seven frames to take the match 9–5. The event had a prize fund of £30,000, with £10,000 awarded to the winner.Clive Everton 1986 Benson and Hedges Snooker Year Aylesbury Pelham Books 0863691668 76 Third Taylor compiled the highest break of the event, 126.Morrison Ian 1989 Snooker: records, facts and champions Guinness Superlatives Ltd Enfield 0851123643 108 Main draw Names in bold denote match winners. Quarter-finalsBest of 9 frames Semi-finalsBest of 11 frames FinalBest of 17 frames NIR Dennis Taylor 5 ENG Fred Davis 0 WAL Terry Griffiths 5 WAL Ray Reardon 2 ENG Steve Davis 5 ENG John Spencer 2 CAN Cliff Thorburn 4 NIR Alex Higgins 5 NIR Dennis Taylor 6 WAL Terry Griffiths 4 ENG Steve Davis 6 NIR Alex Higgins 1 NIR Dennis Taylor 9 ENG Steve Davis 5 Century breaks 126 NIR Dennis Taylor 118 WAL Terry Griffiths References Kit Kat Break for World Champions Category:Snooker competitions in England Kit Kat Break for World Champions