Seniors Pot Black

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Seniors Pot Black 1997
Henderson Investors Seniors Pot Black 1997
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Tournament type: Invitation tournament
Attendees: 12
Venue: Goodwood House , Chichester , England
Opening: March 1997
Endgame: March 1997

Winner: EnglandEngland Joe Johnson
Finalist: WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths
Highest Break: 57 ( Joe Johnson ) EnglandEngland
 

The Henderson Investors Seniors Pot Black 1997 was a one-off special format of the Pot Black Cup , which was held in March 1997 as part of the 1996/97 season as a snooker invitation tournament at Goodwood House in Chichester , England and was attended by numerous former top players of the 1970s and 1980s as a field of participants included. The winner was the 1986 world champion Joe Johnson , who defeated the 1979 world champion Terry Griffiths 2-0 in the final by frames . Johnson also played the tournament's highest break with a 57 break. The tournament games were shown on television between March 3 and March 14, 1997.

Tournament course

As with normal Pot Black , all games up to and including the semi-finals were decided within a single frame, only the final lasted a maximum of three frames. Eight players played in a first round to get into the quarter-finals, where the rest of the field also joined the four wins from the first round. The tournament winner was finally decided in the knockout system .

Note: The results of the first three rounds are given in points earned, the final result in frames.

  First round
best of 1 frames 		Quarterfinals
Best of 1 Frames 		Semi-final
best of 1 frames 		Final
best of 3 frames
                             
EnglandEngland Joe Johnson 87     AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 31  
South AfricaSouth Africa Perrie Mans 30th     EnglandEngland Joe Johnson 50  
  EnglandEngland Joe Johnson 112  
  Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor 6th  
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor 74     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 28
EnglandEngland John Spencer 47     Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor 101  
  EnglandEngland Joe Johnson 2
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 0
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon 80     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 95  
EnglandEngland Willie Thorne 46     WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon 40  
  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 111
  EnglandEngland Graham Miles 5  
EnglandEngland Graham Miles 75     CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn 33
EnglandEngland Rex Williams 26th     EnglandEngland Graham Miles 63  

final

In the final, Joe Johnson and Terry Griffiths, two former world champions, met each other. While Johnson was still active, Griffiths ended his professional career at the end of the 1996/97 season, so that he reached the final in both his second professional tournament (1979 World Cup) and his penultimate professional tournament. However, this time Griffiths lost when Johnson won the two necessary frames with 85:32 and 70:17.

Finale: Best of 3 Frames
Goodwood House ,  Chichester , England , March 1997
EnglandEngland Joe Johnson 2 : 0 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths
85 : 32, 70 : 17
- Highest break -
- Century breaks -
- 50+ breaks -

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Ron Florax: 1997 Seniors Pot Black. CueTracker.net, accessed June 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Chris Turner: Pot Black / Junior Pot Black - Invitation Events. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; accessed on June 9, 2019 (English).