1976/77 snooker season
1976/77 snooker season |
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Season dates | |
Beginning of the season | September 1976 |
End of season | May 7, 1977 |
Ranked tournaments | 1 |
Non-ranking | 4th |
Invitation tournaments | 2 |
number of players | 40 |
Triple Crown Winner | |
Masters | Doug Mountjoy |
World Champion | John Spencer |
World ranking | |
Ranking first | Ray Reardon |
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1977/78 →
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The 1976/77 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments that were part of the Snooker Main Tour . The season began in early September 1976 and ended on May 7, 1977. There were 40 active players during the season.
Tournaments
7 tournaments were played during the season.
date | competition | venue | winner | Final opponent | Result |
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September 1976 | Australian Professional Championship | Melbourne | Eddie Charlton | Paddy Morgan | kl. |
September | Canadian Open | Toronto | John Spencer | Alex Higgins | 17: 9 |
December 1st to December 12th | World Professional Matchplay Championship | Melbourne | Eddie Charlton | Ray Reardon | 31:24 |
January 1, 1977 | Pot Black | Birmingham | Perrie Mans | Doug Mountjoy | 1-0 |
February 7th to 12th | Masters | London | Doug Mountjoy | Ray Reardon | 7: 6 |
April 18-30 | World Snooker Championship | Sheffield | John Spencer | Cliff Thorburn | 25:21 |
April 30th to May 7th | Pontins Professional | Prestatyn | John Spencer | John Pulman | 7: 5 |
World ranking
For the first time, a snooker world ranking was drawn up. It was - like the Order of Merit in the previous year - calculated from the results of the snooker world championships in 1975 , 1976 and 1977 and used as the seeding list for the snooker world championship in 1978 .
position | Surname | change |
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1 | Ray Reardon | |
2 | Alex Higgins | 1 |
3 | Eddie Charlton | 1 |
4th | Fred Davis | 3 |
5 | Graham Miles | |
6th | Rex Williams | 2 |
7th | Perrie Mans | 6 |
8th | John Spencer | 2 |
9 | Dennis Taylor | |
10 | Gary Owen | 2 |
11 | John Dunning | 1 |
12 | Jim Meadowcroft | 5 |
13 | Cliff Thorburn | 3 |
14th | Bill Werbeniuk | |
15th | John Pulman | 4 |
16 | David Taylor | |
17th | Marcus Owen | 1 |
18th | Bernard Bennett | 3 |
19th | Ian Anderson | |
20th | Warren Simpson | 5 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ron Florax: Season 1976-1977 - Professional. Cuetracker.net, accessed on May 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Chris Turner : Historical World Rankings. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, September 11, 2011, archived from the original on June 8, 2012 ; accessed on May 21, 2018 (English).