1980 Pot Black

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1980 Pot Black
Tournament information
DatesRecorded late December 1979 (broadcast 4 January – 18 April 1980 (1980-01-04 – 1980-04-18))
VenuePebble Mill Studios
CityBirmingham
CountryEngland
FormatNon-ranking event
Winner's share£2000
Highest breakNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor (87)
Final
ChampionAustralia Eddie Charlton
Runner-upWales Ray Reardon
Score2–1
← 1979
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The 1980 Pot Black event was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was held at the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. The tournament began with eight players competing in two groups of four using a round-robin format. The matches were one-frame shoot-outs in the group stages, two-frame aggregate scores in the semi-finals, and best-of-three-frames in the final.

Broadcast on BBC2, the programmes started at 21:00 on Friday 4 January 1980.[1] Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee.

The first programme of the series featured reigning Pot Black champion Ray Reardon playing against the then world champion Terry Griffiths making his Pot Black debut. Reardon reached the final where he lost 1–2 to Eddie Charlton who himself won his third title equalling the record set by John Spencer.[2][3]

Main draw[]

Group 1[]

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
Wales Ray Reardon 1–0 Wales Terry Griffiths 4 January 1980
England John Spencer 0–1 Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 18 January 1980
Wales Ray Reardon 1–0 England John Spencer 1 February 1980
Wales Terry Griffiths 0–1 Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 22 February 1980
Wales Terry Griffiths 0–1 England John Spencer 29 February 1980
Wales Ray Reardon 0–1 Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 14 March 1980

Group 2[]

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
Wales Doug Mountjoy 0–1 England Graham Miles 11 January 1980
South Africa Perrie Mans 0–1 Australia Eddie Charlton 25 January 1980
Wales Doug Mountjoy 1–0 South Africa Perrie Mans 15 February 1980
England Graham Miles 0–1 Australia Eddie Charlton 29 February 1980
Wales Doug Mountjoy 1–0 Australia Eddie Charlton 7 March 1980
England Graham Miles 1–0 South Africa Perrie Mans 21 March 1980

Knockout stage[]

  Semi-finals (28 March and 4 April 1980)     Final (18 April 1980)
                 
  Wales Ray Reardon 1  
  Wales Doug Mountjoy 0    
      Wales Ray Reardon 1
      Australia Eddie Charlton 2
  Australia Eddie Charlton 1    
  Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 0   3rd place Play-off (11 April 1980)
 
Wales Doug Mountjoy 1
  Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 0

References[]

  1. ^ "BBC Television – 4 January 1980 – Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  2. ^ "BBC Television – 18 April 1980 – Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  3. ^ "CueTracker - 1980 Pot Black - Snooker Results & Statistics". cuetracker.net. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
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