1984/85 snooker season

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1984/85 snooker season
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Season dates
Beginning of the season May 1984
End of season May 18, 1985
Ranked tournaments 6th
Non-ranking 11
Invitation tournaments 10
number of players 301
Triple Crown Winner
UK Championship EnglandEngland Steve Davis
Masters CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn
World Champion Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor
World ranking
Ranking first EnglandEngland Steve Davis
← 1983/84
1985/86 →

The 1984/85 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments that were part of the Snooker Main Tour . It started in early May 1984 with the qualifying tournaments and ended May 18 with the Pontins Professional 1985 .

Tournaments

Two qualifying tournaments, six national championships and 19 main tournaments were played during the season.

Main tournaments

date competition venue Art winner finalist Result
July 11-13 New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand Masters Auckland Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Jimmy White CanadaCanada Kirk Stevens 5: 3
August AustraliaAustralia Australian Masters Sydney Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Tony Knowles EnglandEngland John Virgo 7: 3
August 20-23 SpainSpain Costa del Sol Classic Fuengirola Invitation tournament Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor EnglandEngland Mike Hallett 5: 2
August 27th to 31st ThailandThailand Thailand Masters Bangkok Non-ranking tournament EnglandEngland Jimmy White WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths 4: 3
September 1 MalaysiaMalaysia Malaysian Masters Kuala Lumpur league WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths EnglandEngland Tony Meo 2-0
beginning of September SingaporeSingapore Singapore Masters Singapore league WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths EnglandEngland Steve Davis 1: 1
September 5th to 8th Hong Kong 1959Hong Kong Hong Kong Masters Hong Kong Non-ranking tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 4: 2
September 14th to 16th IrelandIreland Carlsberg Challenge Dublin Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Jimmy White EnglandEngland Tony Knowles 9: 7
September 20-23 ScotlandScotland Scottish Masters Glasgow Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis EnglandEngland Jimmy White 9: 4
September 24th to October 7th EnglandEngland International Open Newcastle World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis EnglandEngland Tony Knowles 9: 2
October 20th to 28th EnglandEngland Grand Prix Reading World ranking tournament Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn 10: 2
November 18th to December 2nd EnglandEngland UK Championship Preston World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Steve Davis Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 16: 8
December 5th to 16th EnglandEngland World Doubles Championship Northampton Invitation tournament Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins Jimmy White
EnglandEngland 		CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn Willie Thorne
EnglandEngland 		10: 2
December EnglandEngland Pot Black Birmingham Invitation tournament WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths EnglandEngland John Spencer 2: 1
January 4th to 13th, 1985 EnglandEngland Classic Warrington World ranking tournament EnglandEngland Willie Thorne CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn 13: 8
January 27th to February 3rd EnglandEngland Masters London Invitation tournament CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 9: 6
February 17th to March 3rd EnglandEngland British Open Derby World ranking tournament South Africa 1961South Africa Silvino Francisco CanadaCanada Kirk Stevens 12: 9
March 20-23 EnglandEngland World cup Bournemouth Invitation tournament Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland/ Team All Ireland IrelandIreland EnglandEngland Team England A 9: 7
March 26th to 31st IrelandIreland Irish Masters Kill Invitation tournament EnglandEngland Jimmy White Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 9: 5
April 12-28 EnglandEngland World Snooker Championship Sheffield World ranking tournament Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor EnglandEngland Steve Davis 18:17
May 11th to 18th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Pontins Professional Prestatyn Non-ranking tournament WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths EnglandEngland John Spencer 9: 7

National championships

date competition venue winner finalist Result
August 1984 CanadaCanada Canadian Professional Championship Toronto CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn CanadaCanada Mario Morra 9: 2
August 13th to 17th AustraliaAustralia Australian Professional Championship Dubbo AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton AustraliaAustralia Warren King 10: 3
February 5th to 10th EnglandEngland English Professional Championship Ipswich EnglandEngland Steve Davis EnglandEngland Tony Knowles 9: 2
February 5th to 10th ScotlandScotland Scottish Professional Championship Edinburgh ScotlandScotland Murdo MacLeod ScotlandScotland Eddie Sinclair 10: 2
April 8-11 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland IrelandIreland Irish Professional Championship Belfast Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins 10: 5
May 7-11 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Welsh Professional Championship Abertillery WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 9: 4

Ranking list

The world ranking list for snooker 1984/85 was calculated from the results of the world ranking tournaments. The best 16 players are shown.

No. Surname +/-
1 EnglandEngland Steve Davis  
2 EnglandEngland Tony Knowles   2
3 CanadaCanada Cliff Thorburn  
4th CanadaCanada Kirk Stevens   3
5 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ray Reardon   3
6th AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton  
7th EnglandEngland Jimmy White   4
8th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Terry Griffiths   1
9 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Alex Higgins   4
10 EnglandEngland Tony Meo   5
11 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Dennis Taylor   2
12 EnglandEngland Willie Thorne   6
13 EnglandEngland John Spencer   3
14th CanadaCanada Bill Werbeniuk   6
15th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy   4
16 EnglandEngland David Taylor   6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ron Florax: Season 1984-1985 - Professional. Cuetracker.net, accessed on May 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Chris Turner: Historical World Ranking. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, archived from the original on June 8, 2012 ; accessed on May 29, 2018 (English).