1982 Pot Black

Pot Black 82
Tournament information
Dates late December 1981 (Broadcast 5 January-20 April 1982)
Venue Pebble Mill Studios
City Birmingham
Country England
Format Non-Ranking event
Winner's share £2500
Highest break Australia Eddie Charlton (98)
Final
Champion England Steve Davis
Runner-up Australia Eddie Charlton
Score 2–0
← 1981
1983 →

The 1982 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 are 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 Tuesday 5 January 1982 [1] Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and John Williams as referee.

World snooker champion Steve Davis won his first Pot Black title beating show veteran Eddie Charlton 2-0.[2][3]

Main draw

Group 1

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
Canada Cliff Thorburn1–0Wales Doug Mountjoy5 January 1982
Northern Ireland Alex Higgins0–1England David Taylor19 January 1982
Canada Cliff Thorburn1–0England David Taylor2 February 1982
Wales Doug Mountjoy1–0Northern Ireland Alex Higgins16 February 1982
Wales Doug Mountjoy0–1England David Taylor2 March 1982
Canada Cliff Thorburn0–1Northern Ireland Alex Higgins16 March 1982

Group 2

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
Australia Eddie Charlton1–0Wales Ray Reardon12 January 1982
England Steve Davis1–0Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor26 January 1982
Australia Eddie Charlton1–0Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor9 February 1982
Wales Ray Reardon1–0England Steve Davis23 February 1982
Wales Ray Reardon1–0Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor9 March 1982
England Steve Davis1–0Australia Eddie Charlton23 March 1982

Knockout stage

  Semi-finals (30 March and 6 April 1982)     Final (20 April 1982)
                 
  Wales Doug Mountjoy 0  
  Australia Eddie Charlton 1    
      Australia Eddie Charlton 0
      England Steve Davis 2
  England Steve Davis 1    
  Canada Cliff Thorburn 0   3rd place Play-off (13 April 1982)
 
Wales Doug Mountjoy 1
  Canada Cliff Thorburn 0

References

  1. ↑ "BBC Television – 5 January 1982 – Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "BBC Television – 20 April 1982 – Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "CueTracker - 1982 Pot Black - Snooker Results & Statistics". cuetracker.net. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
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