1971 Pot Black

1971 Pot Black
Tournament information
Dates early 1971 (Broadcast 17 February-2 June 1971)
Venue BBC Studios
City Birmingham
Country England
Format Non-Ranking event
Highest break England Fred Davis (73)
Final
Champion England John Spencer
Runner-up England Fred Davis
Score 61–40
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1972 →

The 1971 Pot Black was the third year of the professional invitational snooker tournament, which was broadcast in 1971. 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 programme at 21:45 on Wednesday 17 February 1971[1] The tournament as last year was a round-robin format with two groups of 4 and the top two players from each group would qualify to the semi-finals. The players were mainly the same as the last two championships but David Taylor made his television debut in this series replacing Ray Reardon. Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee.

John Spencer retained his Pot Black title beating Fred Davis 88–27 in the one-frame final broadcast on 2 June.[2][3]

Main draw

League 1

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
England John Spencer1–0England David Taylor24 February 1971
England John Pulman0–1England Rex Williams10 March 1971
England John Spencer0–1England John Pulman24 March 1971
England David Taylor0–1England Rex Williams7 April 1971
England John Spencer1–0England Rex Williams21 April 1971
England David Taylor0–1England John Pulman5 May 1971

League 2

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
England Kingsley Kennerley0–1Northern Ireland Jackie Rea3 March 1971
Wales Gary Owen1–0England Fred Davis17 March 1971
England Kingsley Kennerley0–1Wales Gary Owen31 March 1971
Northern Ireland Jackie Rea0–1England Fred Davis14 April 1971
England Kingsley Kennerley1–0England Fred Davis28 April 1971
Northern Ireland Jackie Rea0–1Wales Gary Owen12 May 1971

Knockout stage

Semi-finals (19 and 26 May 1971) Final (2 June 1971)
England John Spencer 1
Wales Gary Owen 0 England John Spencer 1
England Rex Williams 0 England Fred Davis 0
England Fred Davis 1

References

  1. ↑ "BBC Television – 17 February 1971 – Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "BBC Television – 2 June 1971 – Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  3. ↑ http://cuetracker.net/tournaments/pot-black/1971/912
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