1985_Kit_Kat_Break_for_World_Champions

1985 Kit Kat Break for World Champions

1985 Kit Kat Break for World Champions

Professional invitational snooker tournament

The 1985 Kit Kat Break for World Champions was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place from 17 to 20 December 1985.[1][2] Dennis Taylor won the event by defeating Steve Davis 9–5 in the final.

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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.[1]

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.[3] Davis achieved a 4–3 lead by the end of the first session of the Kit Kat Break for World Champions final,[2] but Taylor won six of the next seven frames to take the match 9–5.[3]

The event had a prize fund of £30,000, with £10,000 awarded to the winner.[3] Taylor compiled the highest break of the event, 126.[4]

Main draw

Names in bold denote match winners.[3]

Quarter-finals
Best of 9 frames 		Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames 		Final
Best of 17 frames
         
Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 5
England Fred Davis 0
Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 6
Wales Terry Griffiths 4
Wales Terry Griffiths 5
Wales Ray Reardon 2
Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 9
England Steve Davis 5
England Steve Davis 5
England John Spencer 2
England Steve Davis 6
Northern Ireland Alex Higgins 1
Canada Cliff Thorburn 4
Northern Ireland Alex Higgins 5

Century breaks

126 Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor
118 Wales Terry Griffiths

References

  1. [1]
    "Sport in brief: snooker". The Times. London. 17 December 1985.
  2. [2]
    "Sport in brief: snooker". The Times. London. 21 December 1985.
  3. [3]
    Clive Everton, ed. (1986). Benson and Hedges Snooker Year (Third Edition). Aylesbury: Pelham Books. p. 76. ISBN 0863691668.
  4. [4]
    Morrison, Ian (1989). Snooker: records, facts and champions. Enfield: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 108. ISBN 0851123643.
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