1957 World Snooker Championship
1957 World Snooker Championship | |
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Tournament dates | |
Tournament format: | knockout |
Playing time: | 1956/57 |
Association: | PMC |
Tournament details | |
Attendees: | 4th |
Defending champion: | Fred Davis |
Winner: | John Pulman |
2nd finalist: | Jackie Rea |
Final venue: | , Jersey , England |
Prize money: | |
Frames in the final: | Best of 73 |
Records | |
Highest Break: | |
← 1955 | 1964 → |
The 1957 World Snooker Championship (officially: Professional Matchplay Championship 1957 ) was the sixth edition of the Professional Matchplay Championship . It took place in Jersey . The first world champion was the Englishman John Pulman , who defeated the Northern Irishman Jackie Rea with 39:34 in the final. Defending champion Fred Davis , who Pulman lost in the final in 1955 and 1956 , did not take part.
Tournament schedule
Semifinals | final | |||||
John Pulman | 21st | |||||
Rex Williams | 16 | |||||
John Pulman | 39 | |||||
Jackie Rea | 34 | |||||
Jackie Rea | 25th | |||||
Kingsley Kennerley | 12 |
Individual evidence
- ^ Chris Turner: World Professional Championship. In: cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, archived from the original on April 16, 2013 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .
- ↑ 2004 Embassy World Championship. In: globalsnookercentre.co.uk. Global Snooker Center, archived from the original on December 8, 2004 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .
- ^ Embassy World Championship. In: snookerscene.co.uk. Snooker Scene, archived from the original on January 24, 2013 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .
- ^ World Championship 1957. In: global-snooker.com. Global Snooker, archived from the original on December 28, 2010 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .