1980 Pot Black

Pot Black 80
Tournament information
Dates late December 1979 (Broadcast 4 January – 18 April 1980)
Venue Pebble Mill Studios
City Birmingham
Country England
Format Non-Ranking event
Winner's share £2000
Highest break Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor (87)
Final
Champion Australia Eddie Charlton
Runner-up Wales Ray Reardon
Score 2–1
← 1979
1981 →

The 1980 Pot Black was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was held in the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. 8 players were competing in 2 four player groups. The matches were now only one-frame shoot-outs in the group stages, 2 frame aggregate scores in the semi-finals and the best of 3 frames in the final.

Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 21:00 on Friday 4 January 1980.[1] Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee.

The first programme of the series featured reigning Pot Black champion Ray Reardon playing again the current world champion Terry Griffiths making his Pot Black debut and Reardon went on to reach the final losing to Eddie Charlton 1-2 who himself won his third title equalling the record with John Spencer.[2][3]

Main draw

Group 1

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
Wales Ray Reardon1–0Wales Terry Griffiths4 January 1980
England John Spencer0–1Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor18 January 1980
Wales Ray Reardon1–0England John Spencer1 February 1980
Wales Terry Griffiths0–1Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor22 February 1980
Wales Terry Griffiths0–1England John Spencer29 February 1980
Wales Ray Reardon0–1Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor14 March 1980

Group 2

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
Wales Doug Mountjoy0–1England Graham Miles11 January 1980
South Africa Perrie Mans0–1Australia Eddie Charlton25 January 1980
Wales Doug Mountjoy1–0South Africa Perrie Mans15 February 1980
England Graham Miles0–1Australia Eddie Charlton29 February 1980
Wales Doug Mountjoy1–0Australia Eddie Charlton7 March 1980
England Graham Miles1–0South Africa Perrie Mans21 March 1980

Knockout stage

  Semi-finals (28 March and 4 April 1980)     Final (18 April 1980)
                 
  Wales Ray Reardon 1  
  Wales Doug Mountjoy 0    
      Wales Ray Reardon 1
      Australia Eddie Charlton 2
  Australia Eddie Charlton 1    
  Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 0   3rd place Play-off (11 April 1980)
 
Wales Doug Mountjoy 1
  Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 0

References

  1. ↑ "BBC Television – 4 January 1980 – Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "BBC Television – 18 April 1980 – Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "CueTracker - 1980 Pot Black - Snooker Results & Statistics". cuetracker.net. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
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