1955 World Snooker Championship

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1955 World Snooker Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament format: knockout
Playing time: 1954/55
Association: PMC
Tournament details
Attendees: 6th
Defending champion: EnglandEngland Fred Davis
Winner: EnglandEngland Fred Davis
2nd finalist: EnglandEngland John Pulman
Final venue: Tower Circus , Blackpool , England
Prize money:
Frames in the final: Best of 73
Records
Highest Break: 103 ( John Pulman )EnglandEngland
← 1954 1956 →

The 1955 World Snooker Championship (officially: Professional Matchplay Championship 1955) was the fourth edition of the Professional Matchplay Championship . It took place in March 1955 at Blackpool Tower Circus in Blackpool . The Englishman Fred Davis became world champion for the fourth time in a row and for the seventh time overall with a 37:34 victory in the final against his compatriot John Pulman .

Tournament schedule

  Quarter finals Semifinals final
                           
   EnglandEngland Fred Davis        
 bye  
 EnglandEngland Fred Davis 36
   Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jackie Rea 25th  
 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jackie Rea 31
   EnglandEngland Harry Stokes 19th  
   EnglandEngland Fred Davis 37
   EnglandEngland John Pulman 34
   EnglandEngland Alec Brown
 bye  
 EnglandEngland Alec Brown 16
   EnglandEngland John Pulman 31  
 EnglandEngland John Pulman 22nd
   EnglandEngland Rex Williams 15th  

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Chris Turner: On This Week: Birth of the Hurricane. In: eurosport.yahoo.com. Eurosport , March 15, 2010, accessed May 4, 2015 .
  3. ↑ 2004 Embassy World Championship. In: globalsnookercentre.co.uk. Global Snooker Center, archived from the original on December 8, 2004 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .
  4. ^ World Championship 1955. In: global-snooker.com. Global Snooker, archived from the original on February 22, 2012 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .
  5. ^ Embassy World Championship. In: snookerscene.co.uk. Snooker Scene, archived from the original on January 24, 2013 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .