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1991 Pot Black
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Pot Black 91 1991 08 18 1991 08 20 y (broadcast 2 September-16 October 1991) Trentham Gardens Stoke-on-Trent England WPBSA Non-Ranking event £8,000 ??? ENG Steve Davis SCO Stephen Hendry 2–1 1986 1992
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The 1991 Pot Black was the first of the revived professional invitational snooker tournament after a 5-year absence and the 19th series altogether. It took place between 18 and 20 August 1991 and broadcast in September and October. This time, the tournament was held at Trentham Gardens in Stoke-on-Trent which formally hosted the International and it was played alongside the Junior Pot Black competition which also got revived, and featured sixteen professional players in a knock-out system. All matches until the semi-final were one-frame shoot-outs,January 2025 the semi-final was aggregate score of two frames and the final being contested over the best of three frames.
Broadcasts had been moved from primetime BBC2 to an afternoon slot on BBC1 and shown on Mondays and Wednesdays and the series started at 15:05 on Monday 2 September 1991.BBC Television – 2 September 1991 – Pot Black http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1991-09-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20141019050144/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1991-09-02 dead 19 October 2014 BBC Genome Project BBC 28 February 2017 Eamonn Holmes was the new presenter for the series and three times Pot Black champion John Spencer joined Ted Lowe in the commentary box for the new series while John Williams remained as referee.
Players in this year's series were the top 16 ranked players for the 1991–92 season including former Pot Black winners Doug Mountjoy, Steve Davis, Terry Griffiths and defending champion Jimmy White and former Junior Pot Black players Dean Reynolds, John Parrott and Stephen Hendry.
The tournament was won by Davis who took the title for the third time, beating Hendry 2–1 and equalling John Spencer and Eddie Charlton.BBC Television – 16 October 1991 – Pot Black http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1991-10-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20141019042323/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1991-10-16 dead 19 October 2014 BBC Genome Project BBC 28 February 2017http://cuetracker.net/tournaments/pot-black/1991/506 CueTracker - 1991 Pot Black - Snooker Results & Statistics Database In the semi-finals, Davis eliminated White 164–67, and Hendry beat Mountjoy 221–31. Davis received £8,000 prize money as winner, Hendry received £5,000 as runner-up, and the losing semi-finalists each received £3,000.Pot Black win for Davis Pot Black December 1991 14
Main draw
no Last 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Aggregate score of 2 frames Final Best of 3 frames ENG Jimmy White 1 ENG Willie Thorne 0 NIR Dennis Taylor 1 ENG Mike Hallett 0 ENG Steve Davis 1 ENG Martin Clark 0 ENG Gary Wilkinson 1 ENG Dean Reynolds 0 SCO Stephen Hendry 1 ENG Tony Jones 0 ENG Neal Foulds 1 WAL Terry Griffiths 0 WAL Doug Mountjoy 78 ENG Steve James 34 ENG John Parrott 1 ENG Tony Knowles 0 ENG Jimmy White 1 NIR Dennis Taylor 0 ENG Steve Davis 1 ENG Gary Wilkinson 0 SCO Stephen Hendry 1 ENG Neal Foulds 0 WAL Doug Mountjoy 1 ENG John Parrott 0 ENG Jimmy White 67 ENG Steve Davis 164 SCO Stephen Hendry 221 WAL Doug Mountjoy 31 ENG Steve Davis 2 SCO Stephen Hendry 1
Match dates of transmission
Player 1Player 2Broadcast DateENG Jimmy WhiteENG Willie Thorne2 September 1991ENG John ParrottENG Tony Knowles4 September 1991SCO Stephen HendryENG Tony Jones 9 September 1991ENG Steve DavisENG Martin Clark11 September 1991ENG Gary WilkinsonENG Dean Reynolds 16 September 1991ENG Neal FouldsWAL Terry Griffiths 18 September 1991WAL Doug MountjoyENG Steve James 23 September 1991NIR Dennis TaylorENG Mike Hallett 25 September 1991SCO Stephen HendryENG Neal Foulds 30 September 1991ENG Steve DavisENG Gary Wilkinson 2 October 1991ENG Jimmy WhiteNIR Dennis Taylor 7 October 1991WAL Doug MountjoyENG John Parrott 9 October 1991ENG Steve DavisENG Jimmy White 14 October 1991SCO Stephen HendryWAL Doug Mountjoy15 October 1991ENG Steve DavisSCO Stephen Hendry16 October 1991
Final
Final: Best of 3 frames. Referee: John Williams Trentham Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 20 August 1991 (Broadcast 16 October 1991). Steve Davis 2–1 Stephen Hendry 62–40, 4–101 (55),80–18 ?? Highest break 55 0 Century breaks 0 0 50+ breaks 1
References
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