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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| Semifinals | ||||||||||
| 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. | |||
| 7 | Bill Werbeniuk (a) | 13 | - | 5 | Perrie Mans (a) | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||
| 2 | David Taylor (a) | 10 | - | 6 | Cliff Wilson (a) | |||||
| 3 | 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) | |||||
| 6 | Kirk Stevens (a) | 10 | - | 4 | John Dunning (a) | |||||
| 7 | Bill Werbeniuk (a) | 10 | - | 4 | Dave Martin (a) |
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Martin's 1st time at the Crucible | |||
| 8 | John Spencer (a) | 10 | - | 9 | Ray Edmonds (a) |
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