1970 Pot Black

1970 Pot Black
Tournament information
Dates early 1970 (Broadcast 23 March-6 July 1970)
Venue BBC Studios
City Birmingham
Country England
Format Non-Ranking event
Highest break England Fred Davis (54)
Final
Champion England John Spencer
Runner-up Wales Ray Reardon
Score 88–27
← 1969
1971 →

The 1970 Pot Black was the second year of the professional invitational snooker tournament, which was broadcast in 1970. The tournament was held in Birmingham, and featured eight professional players. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs.

Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started with an introductory program at 21:45 on Monday 23 March 1970.[1] This year, the tournament moved to a round-robin format with two groups of 4 and the top two players from each group would qualify to the semi-finals. Alan Weeks took over as presenter with Ted Lowe remaining as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee.

The two finalists from the previous year met again but the result was in reverse. John Spencer beat Ray Reardon 88–27 in the one-frame final broadcast on 6 July.[2][3]

Main draw

League 1

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
England Fred Davis0–1England Rex Williams30 March 1970
England John Spencer1–0England Kingsley Kennerley13 April 1970
England Fred Davis0–1England John Spencer27 April 1970
England Rex Williams1–0England Kingsley Kennerley11 May 1970
England Fred Davis1–0England Kingsley Kennerley25 May 1970
England Rex Williams1–0England John Spencer8 June 1970

League 2

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
Wales Gary Owen0–1England John Pulman6 April 1970
Wales Ray Reardon1–0Northern Ireland Jackie Rea20 April 1970
Wales Gary Owen0–1Wales Ray Reardon4 May 1970
England John Pulman1–0Northern Ireland Jackie Rea18 May 1970
Wales Gary Owen1–0Northern Ireland Jackie Rea1 June 1970
England John Pulman1–0Wales Ray Reardon15 June 1970

Knockout stage

Semi-finals (22 and 29 June 1970) Final (6 July 1970)
England John Spencer 1
England John Pulman 0 England John Spencer 1
England Rex Williams 0 Wales Ray Reardon 0
Wales Ray Reardon 1

References

  1. ↑ "BBC Television – 23 March 1970 – Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "BBC Television – 6 July 1970 – Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  3. ↑ http://cuetracker.net/tournaments/pot-black/1970/915
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