1971 Pot Black

An automated process has detected links on this page on the local or global blacklist. If the links are appropriate you may request whitelisting by following these instructions; otherwise consider removing or replacing them with more appropriate links. (To hide this tag, set the "invisible" field to "true") List of blacklisted links: http://cuetracker.net/tournaments/pot-black/1971/912 Triggered by \bcuetracker\.net\b on the local blacklist

1971 Pot Black

Tournament information
Dates	Recorded early 1971 (broadcast 17 February – 2 June 1971 (1971-02-17 – 1971-06-02))
Venue	BBC Studios
City	Birmingham
Country	England
Format	Non-ranking event
Highest break	Fred Davis (73)
Final
Champion	John Spencer
Runner-up	Fred Davis
Score	61–40
← 1970 1972 →

The 1971 Pot Black event was the third edition of Pot Black, a professional invitational snooker tournament which was first broadcast in 1969. The event was recorded in early 1971 at the BBC TV Studios in Gosta Green, Birmingham. The tournament featured eight professional players. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs.

Broadcasts were on BBC2, starting with an introductory programme at 9:45 pm on Wednesday 17 February 1971^[1] The tournament again used a round-robin format with two groups of four players, the top two from each group qualifying for a place in the semi-finals. The players in this event were mainly the same as the previous two, but Ray Reardon was replaced by David Taylor who was making his television debut. Alan Weeks presented the programme, with Ted Lowe as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee.

John Spencer retained his Pot Black title, beating Fred Davis 88–27 in the one-frame final which was broadcast on 2 June 1971.^[2][3]

Main draw[]

League 1[]

Player 1	Score	Player 2	Broadcast Date
John Spencer	1–0	David Taylor	24 February 1971
John Pulman	0–1	Rex Williams	10 March 1971
John Spencer	0–1	John Pulman	24 March 1971
David Taylor	0–1	Rex Williams	7 April 1971
John Spencer	1–0	Rex Williams	21 April 1971
David Taylor	0–1	John Pulman	5 May 1971

League 2[]

Player 1	Score	Player 2	Broadcast Date
Kingsley Kennerley	0–1	Jackie Rea	3 March 1971
Gary Owen	1–0	Fred Davis	17 March 1971
Kingsley Kennerley	0–1	Gary Owen	31 March 1971
Jackie Rea	0–1	Fred Davis	14 April 1971
Kingsley Kennerley	1–0	Fred Davis	28 April 1971
Jackie Rea	0–1	Gary Owen	12 May 1971

Knockout stage[]

	Semi-finals (19 and 26 May 1971)					Final (2 June 1971)
		John Spencer	1
		Gary Owen	0				John Spencer	1
		Rex Williams	0				Fred Davis	0
		Fred Davis	1

References[]