1975 Pot Black

1975 Pot Black
Tournament information
Dates Christmas 1974 (Broadcast 4 January-19 April 1975)
Venue Pebble Mill Studios
City Birmingham
Country England
Format Non-Ranking event
Winner's share £1000
Highest break England Fred Davis (87)
Final
Champion England Graham Miles
Runner-up Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor
Score 81–27
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The 1975 Pot Black was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was held in the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, and featured eight professional players. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs.

Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 19:50 on Saturday 4 January 1975 [1] Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee.

Dennis Taylor made his debut in this year's tournament and went on to reach the final losing to defending champion Graham Miles 81-27 [2] making him the third player in a row to win back to back titles after John Spencer and Eddie Charlton.[3]

Main draw

Champions League

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
England Graham Miles1–0Wales Ray Reardon4 January 1975
England John Spencer0–1Australia Eddie Charlton18 January 1975
Wales Ray Reardon0–1England John Spencer1 February 1975
Australia Eddie Charlton1–0England Graham Miles15 February 1975
England John Spencer1–0England Graham Miles1 March 1975
Wales Ray Reardon0–1Australia Eddie Charlton15 March 1975

Challengers League

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor1–0England John Pulman11 January 1975
England Fred Davis1–0England Rex Williams25 January 1975
Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor0–1England Fred Davis8 February 1975
England John Pulman1–0England Rex Williams22 February 1975
England Fred Davis1–0England John Pulman8 March 1975
England Rex Williams0–1Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor22 March 1975

Knockout stage

  Semi-finals (29 March and 5 April 1975)     Final (19 April 1975)
                 
  England Graham Miles 1  
  Wales Ray Reardon 0    
      England Graham Miles 1
      Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 0
  Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 1    
  England Fred Davis 0   3rd place Play-off (12 April 1975)
 
Wales Ray Reardon 1
  England Fred Davis 0

References

  1. ↑ "BBC Television – 4 January 1975 – Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "BBC Television – 19 April 1975 – Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  3. ↑ http://cuetracker.net/tournaments/pot-black/1975/893
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