Embassy World Championship
Tour: Main Tour;
Date: 16 Apr - 2 May 1988;
Venue: Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, England;
Type: Ranking;
Defending champion: Steve Davis (a);
Notes: See also results (31)
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Steve Davis (a) | 18 | - | 11 |  |
Terry Griffiths (a) |
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 It was Davis's sixth successive final, and Griffith's first since his win in 1979. Davis had won fifteen of the previous nineteen matches between the pair. It was Davis's fourth win in six ranking tournaments in the 1987�88 snooker season, a period in which he also won the 1988 Masters and the 1988 Irish Masters, and he became first player to win all of the snooker "Triple Crown" events in a single season. | ||
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Session 1: Referee: John Williams |
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| Semifinals | ||||||||||
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Steve Davis (a) | 16 | - | 8 |  |
Cliff Thorburn (a) |
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re-spotted black in frame 2 | ||
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Terry Griffiths (a) | 16 | - | 11 | |
Jimmy White |
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re-spotted black in frame 25 | ||
| Quarterfinals | ||||||||||
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Steve Davis (a) | 13 | - | 4 |  |
Tony Drago (a) |
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Cliff Thorburn (a) | 13 | - | 11 | |
Steve James (a) | ||||
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Terry Griffiths (a) | 13 | - | 9 | |
Neal Foulds (a) |
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Jimmy White | 13 | - | 6 | |
Tony Knowles (a) |
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Round 2 (Last 16) |
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| 1 | |
Steve Davis (a) | 13 | - | 1 | |
Mike Hallett (a) |
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This result matched the heaviest defeat ever recorded in the world snooker championship at the Crucible, Davis's 18�6 victory over Thorburn in the 1983 final. | |
| 2 | |
Tony Drago (a) | 13 | - | 5 |  |
Dennis Taylor (a) |
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| 3 | |
Steve James (a) | 13 | - | 9 | |
Joe Johnson (a) | |||
| 4 | |
Cliff Thorburn (a) | 13 | - | 10 | |
John Parrott (a) |
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| 5 | |
Neal Foulds (a) | 13 | - | 1 | |
Doug Mountjoy (a) | |||
| 6 | |
Terry Griffiths (a) | 13 | - | 9 | |
Willie Thorne (a) | Griffiths reached the QF for the fifth year in succession | ||
| 7 | |
Tony Knowles (a) | 13 | - | 7 |  |
Eddie Charlton (a) |
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| 8 | |
Jimmy White | 13 | - | 12 |  |
Stephen Hendry |
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It was the first of seven Crucible matches between White and Hendry over the following decade, including four finals, White losing each encounter until their seventh world championship clash in 1998. | |
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Round 1 (Last 32) |
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| 1 | |
Steve Davis (a) | 10 | - | 8 | |
John Virgo (a) |
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| 2 | |
Mike Hallett (a) | 10 | - | 2 | |
Bob Chaperon (a) | |||
| 3 | |
Tony Drago (a) | 10 | - | 2 | |
Alex Higgins (a) | Higgins lost his place in the elite top 16 of the snooker world rankings for the first time since rankings were introduced in 1976. | ||
| 4 | |
Dennis Taylor (a) | 10 | - | 8 | |
Bill Werbeniuk (a) | This was Werbeniuk's last appearance at the World Snooker Championship finals. | ||
| 5 | |
Joe Johnson (a) | 10 | - | 7 | |
Cliff Wilson (a) | |||
| 6 | |
Steve James (a) | 10 | - | 6 | |
Rex Williams (a) | |||
| 7 | |
John Parrott (a) | 10 | - | 4 | |
Warren King (a) | |||
| 8 | |
Cliff Thorburn (a) | 10 | - | 6 | |
Kirk Stevens (a) | |||
| 9 | |
Neal Foulds (a) | 10 | - | 7 | |
Wayne Jones (a) |
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| 10 | |
Doug Mountjoy (a) | 10 | - | 6 | |
Barry West (a) | |||
| 11 | |
Willie Thorne (a) | 10 | - | 6 |  |
Peter Francisco (a) | |||
| 12 | |
Terry Griffiths (a) | 10 | - | 1 | |
Steve Longworth (a) | |||
| 13 | |
Tony Knowles (a) | 10 | - | 8 | |
Danny Fowler (a) | |||
| 14 | |
Eddie Charlton (a) | 10 | - | 7 | |
Silvino Francisco (a) |
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| 15 | |
Stephen Hendry | 10 | - | 6 | |
Dean Reynolds (a) |
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| 16 | |
Jimmy White | 10 | - | 3 | |
John Campbell (a) | |||
