Key figures in billiard history

Who are the important figures in snooker history? It must be mentioned from the history of snooker development. Snooker was invented as early as the 1870s. At that time, snooker was made by Billiards. It has evolved because it was a non-mainstream item in the billiards world committed to British proportional billiards in the early days. Until 1919, the official rules of snooker were controlled by the Billiards Association and Control Council Club. Club, referred to as BA & CC). In the early 1920s, the United Kingdom began to have some regional British proportional billiards professional competitions. With the gradual popularity of snooker, British proportional billiards players realized that snooker does have its development potential, so they drove BA & CC hosted an open snooker game, and finally this game was finally implemented by a British proportional billiards club owner named Bill Camkin, who is the first generation of ball king Joe Davis, Davis has been in and out of his club for many years. They jointly proposed to BA & CC and obtained approval. So the first professional snooker game in history was born in 1927. The playing field is the billiard club in Birmingham. It's the World Championship.

There were only ten players in 1927, and the first prize provider was either others-Bridge Davis himself, who defeated Tom Dennis 20-11 in the final, putting back the ￡ 6.1 In your own pocket. For nearly 20 years since then, Davis has been waiting for a bunch of contestants to compete for the only place to challenge him. Even after 1931, some British overseas colony players and domestic English-style billiard masters gradually joined the competition. No one has ever overpowered him in the final. On the eve of World War II in 1940, Davis and his brother Fred Davis met for the first time and only once in the final. Joe Davis tried his best. Only in the final tie to win 37-36, this is the only time in his life to grab the final round in this game.

From 1941 to 1945, he lost four games due to the war. In 1946, Joe Davis played for the last time. In the final, he defeated the British proportional pool player Horace Lindrum 78-67. Dominated the early days of snooker for 20 years. It is worth mentioning that the first 100-shot break in the World Championship was also created by Joe Davis, who scored 110 points in 1935 and then pushed the record to 136 points in 1946.

After Joe Davis retired, Fred Davis became the eighth-time king in the next ten years, so he became the second dominant generation of ball kings, led by Fred Davis From 1947 to 1956 in the snooker scene, there was a dispute between the BA & CC leadership and the top players. In 1952, these good players brought the World Championship to their own professional championships in a self-supporting way. From 1952 to 1956, Fred Davis sneered with arrogance. In 1957, the third-generation ball king John Pullman was excavated. Since then, Davis has been in his last 10 years of his career. Never won a world championship again. In addition, Fred Davis won Walter Donaldson in 1948. The score of the game was 84-61, which was the most innings in the World Championship.

After John Pullman won the world championship title for the first time in the last professional championship in 1957, the lack of dominance in the seven years from 1958 to 1963 led to a vacuum pause in the world championship; Rex Williams in BA & CC took over the sponsorship after handing over the consent. The competition system adopts a similar challenge system, but it is not necessarily held once a year, sometimes twice a year, and once every two years. Generally, there is no sound competition system at this stage. Build it up. John Pullman until 1968, together with the 1957 championship, he won eight consecutive world first titles.

The World Championship has a new look since 1969. A company called "Players' No. 6" sponsored the game and changed the format to a knockout. John Spinning won the world championship for the first time and he won the first prize of 1,300. Sterling, but Players' No. 6 withdrew after two years of sponsorship; after 1972, ParkDrive took over the sponsorship for three years, and no one backed up in 1975; since 1976, Embassy took over. Embassy has so far sponsored the World Championships for the 28th year.

After Ray Lilton won the world championship for the first time in 1970 until 1978, he was crowned six times, and he can be called the fourth-generation king of the ball. During this period, his retirement name will be removed from John Spencer. In addition, there are Alex Higgins, Terry Griffiths, Cliff Sandburn, Dennis Taylor and others; from 1983 to 1989, Steve Davis followed Ray- He has also won six world championships since then. He is the fifth-generation king of the ball. Steve Davis has been known for his polite style and superb ball skills for more than 20 years.

Stephen Henry takes over the status of Steve Davis. He won the championship with a weak 21-year-old in 1990. By 1999, he had surpassed Steve Davis's seventh-degree hawk. Crucible Theatre. The appearance of Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry not only represents a generational change, but also brings major changes to the snooker community. Davis has brought player stardom and business to the snooker community. Behaviour has never been inseparable from the ball game; Hendry's amazing scoring ability has raised snooker technology, combat method and rhythm to a whole new level. Since then, the player's accuracy, ball control, movement, safety ball, attack power Even if the psychological quality does not reach a certain level comprehensively, otherwise it will not be possible to enjoy a place in the field of good players.

Since 1997, after Ken Dahidi ended Stephen Henry ’s five-game streak, the World Championships have opened a new generation of warriors. In the meantime, although Hendry claimed the seventh place in 1999, Crusbourg, but Sri Lanka The Knock World Championship can no longer be held as a prisoner by a player at a certain stage in the past, since John Higgins, Mark Williams, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Peter Abbotton and other players who have won world championships in recent years all have the same level of skill as Stephen Henry. In the new generation, it is indeed more difficult to predict who will win the championship than it was ten years ago.