Embassy World Championship
Tour: Main Tour;
Date: 7-20 Apr 1981;
Venue: Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, England;
Type: Ranking;
Defending champion: Cliff Thorburn (a);
Notes: See also results (23)
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Steve Davis (a) | 18 | - | 12 |  |
Doug Mountjoy (a) |
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Session 1: Referee: John Williams |
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Steve Davis (a) | 16 | - | 10 |  |
Cliff Thorburn (a) |
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Doug Mountjoy (a) | 16 | - | 10 | |
Ray Reardon (a) |
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 Mountjoy set a World Championship record by compiling a 145 break, surpassing the 142 breaks by Rex Williams in 1965 and Bill Werbeniuk in 1979. | ||
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Cliff Thorburn (a) | 13 | - | 6 | |
David Taylor (a) |
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Steve Davis (a) | 13 | - | 9 | |
Terry Griffiths (a) |
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Doug Mountjoy (a) | 13 | - | 8 |  |
Dennis Taylor (a) |
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Ray Reardon (a) | 13 | - | 10 | |
Bill Werbeniuk (a) |
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Round 2 (Last 16) |
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| 1 | |
Cliff Thorburn (a) | 13 | - | 2 | |
Graham Miles (a) |
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| 2 | |
David Taylor (a) | 13 | - | 3 | |
Fred Davis (a) |
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| 3 | |
Terry Griffiths (a) | 13 | - | 6 | |
Tony Meo (a) | The first session ended all-square at 4�4. | ||
| 4 | |
Steve Davis (a) | 13 | - | 8 | |
Alex Higgins (a) |
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| 5 | |
Doug Mountjoy (a) | 13 | - | 7 |  |
Eddie Charlton (a) |
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| 6 | |
Dennis Taylor (a) | 13 | - | 11 | |
Kirk Stevens (a) |
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Stevens had been unable to use the practice table at the venue before the match because it was being used to record a programme for a television broadcast. | |
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Bill Werbeniuk (a) | 13 | - | 5 |  |
Perrie Mans (a) | |||
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Ray Reardon (a) | 13 | - | 11 | |
John Spencer (a) |
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Round 1 (Last 24) |
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| 1 | |
Graham Miles (a) | 10 | - | 8 | |
Tony Knowles (a) |
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Knowles' 1st time at the Crucible. In the seventeenth frame, Knowles played a forceful shot on the black, to get a position on the final yellow. He failed to pot the black, which also was the frameball. Miles won that frame and took the next to win 10�8. | |
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David Taylor (a) | 10 | - | 6 | |
Cliff Wilson (a) | |||
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Tony Meo (a) | 10 | - | 6 | |
John Virgo (a) |
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| 4 | |
Steve Davis (a) | 10 | - | 8 | |
Jimmy White (a) |
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White's 1st time at the Crucible | |
| 5 | |
Doug Mountjoy (a) | 10 | - | 6 | |
Willie Thorne (a) | |||
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Kirk Stevens (a) | 10 | - | 4 | |
John Dunning (a) | |||
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Bill Werbeniuk (a) | 10 | - | 4 | |
Dave Martin (a) |
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Martin's 1st time at the Crucible | |
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John Spencer (a) | 10 | - | 9 | |
Ray Edmonds (a) |
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