Terry Griffiths

Terry Griffiths
birthday	16th October 1947 (age 72)
place of birth	Llanelli
nationality	Wales
professional	1978 - 1997
Prize money	£ 1,364,385
Highest break	140 ( Hong Kong Masters 1983 )
Century Breaks	86
Main tour successes
World championships	1
Ranking tournament victories	1
World rankings
Highest WRL place	3 ( 1981/82 )

Terry Griffiths , OBE (born October 16, 1947 in Llanelli ) is a former Welsh snooker player . Griffiths started his professional career in 1978 after several amateur successes and won his second professional tournament with the World Snooker Championship . After winning the Masters in 1980 and the UK Championship in 1982 , he became a member of the Triple Crown and was among the best in the world, especially in the 1980s, before ending his professional career in 1997 after numerous tournaments in the World Snooker Championship .

Griffiths is also a leading player- coach and was WPBSA Director of Coaching for a while . He is also the owner of a snooker club in his hometown of Llanelli and a snooker commentator for the BBC.

Career

Beginnings as an amateur

Griffiths began playing snooker as a teenager and won several local championships by the age of 16. Before starting his professional snooker career, Griffiths worked as a miner for three years from the age of 15 and as a bus conductor , postman and insurance broker for the next six years , before becoming a professional player in 1978 despite the financial risk.

Griffiths was first able to attract attention when he lost to Geoff Thomas in the finals of the Welsh Snooker Championship in 1972 . In 1974 he lost in the round of 32 Des May , before he first took part in the English Amateur Championship in the same year , in which non-English players were allowed to participate. However, he was eliminated by a loss to Vic Harris in the round of 16 of the southern elimination competition. Just a year later he won his first title with an 8: 7 win over Geoff Thomas in the final of the Welsh Snooker Championship before losing to Willie Thorne in the semifinals of the English Snooker Championship after victories over Mick Fisher and Patsy Fagan . He also took part for the first time in the Pro / Am event Pontins Spring Open , in which both professional players and amateurs were represented in the starting field, where he lost his opening game against the Welsh professional player and world champion Ray Reardon .

1976 was followed by a largely worse year when he was defeated in the round of 16 of the Welsh snooker championship Dai Thomas and the southern English elimination tournament in the same round Geoff Foulds . He also lost his opening game against John Hargreaves at the Pontins Spring Open . The turning point came with his first participation in an amateur world championship , when he survived the group stage with five wins and two losses - against Silvino Francisco and Paul Mifsud . He then moved into the quarterfinals with a win over his compatriot Roy Andrewartha in the play-offs, where he had to admit defeat to South African Jimmy van Rensberg . In the new year he moved to the finals of the southern England elimination competition with only one lost frame in three games, where he qualified for the final of the English snooker championship with an 8-1 win over Clive Everton . There he managed to win the title with a 13-3 victory over the northern English champions Sid Hood . He then defeated the professional players Cliff Thorburn , Eddie Charlton , Perrie Mans and Dennis Taylor at the Pontins Spring Open and thus moved into the final, in which he lost 4: 7 to Alex Higgins .

In the following year he only defended his title in the southern English championship with an 8-2 win over Cliff Wilson , before he repeated his triumph from the previous year in the final of the entire English championship with a 13-5 win over Englishman Joe Johnson . Subsequently, Griffiths became a professional player for the 1978/79 season.

First professional years with the 1979 world title

The World Cup trophy

As part of the UK Championship 1978 Griffiths played his first professional game shortly thereafter, which he lost 8: 9 to Rex Williams . Since in the 1978/79 season most of the professional players could only take part in two tournaments, Griffiths then only took part in the World Snooker Championship that season, where he qualified for the round of 16 with victories over the Englishmen Bernard Bennett and Jim Meadowcroft . With further victories over the South African Perrie Mans , the ex-world champion Alex Higgins from Northern Ireland and against the Australian Eddie Charlton , Griffiths reached the final of the world championship, to everyone's surprise, in which he met another first-time participant in a world championship final with Dennis Taylor . For large parts of the final, the final opponents were in no way inferior, so that it was 15:15 before the last session. However, Griffiths dominated them so much that at the end of the day he won the final and his only ranking tournament with 24:16. According to Griffiths, this was the highlight of his career, but it also had its downsides with the glorification of himself and the numerous trips to exhibitions and the resulting lack of time with his family. By winning the world championship, Griffiths placed eighth on the snooker world rankings , which served as the seed list for the coming season.

In the 1979/80 season , Griffiths was able to take part in significantly more tournaments, primarily through his world championship title, and continue his streak of success. At the start of the season he reached the final of the Canadian Open after victories over three Canadian players, including Jim Wych and Kirk Stevens , and lost it 16:17 against local hero Cliff Thorburn , who replaced him as world champion at the end of the season. At the following UK Championship he defeated several leading players with Cliff Wilson , Alex Higgins and Bill Werbeniuk before losing to John Virgo in the final with 13:14 and thus in the second final in a row in the decider . However, Griffiths did not reach the final in every tournament: he was eliminated in the group stage of both the Pot Black Cup and the British Gold Cup , and he lost his opening games at the Welsh Professional Championship and the Pontins Professional . With moderate success he also took part in the Classic and the Tolly Cobbold Classic , where he was eliminated in the semifinals or won the game for third place. He also took part for the first time as a professional in the Pontins Spring Open , where he defeated Mike Hallett and lost to Dave Gilbert in the quarterfinals. Apart from that, Griffiths also achieved two tournament victories: He defeated Alex Higgins in the final of the Masters with 9: 5 and thus won his second Triple Crown tournament after the 1979 World Cup , shortly afterwards he wrestled with the Welsh Doug Mountjoy in the final of the Irish Masters 10: 9 after beating Fred Davis in the semifinals after surviving the group stage . He also had success at team level with his Welsh teammates Ray Reardon and Doug Mountjoy when he defeated the English team around Fred Davis, John Spencer and Graham Miles at the World Cup 14: 3 . At the end of the season, Griffiths became the first player to succumb to the so-called Curse of the Crucible when he lost his opening game against the Englishman Steve Davis and thus his world title at the World Snooker Championship . On the world rankings, he improved to fifth place.

During the 1980/81 season Griffiths could again reach several finals. Right at the start he reached the final of the Canadian Open with wins over Steve Davis and Alex Higgins and lost 10:17 to Cliff Thorburn , at the beginning of the new year he lost 6: 9 to Alex Higgins in the Masters final . This was followed by a 9: 7 win over Ray Reardon in the final of the Irish Masters , before he defeated Willie Thorne in the final of the Pontins Professional 9: 8 at the end of the season . In addition, he was able to defend the World Cup title with the Welsh team against the Canadian team led by Cliff Thorburn, Kirk Stevens and Bill Werbeniuk . Far from these finals, Griffiths also had to accept several mediocre tournament results and several defeats at the beginning. He lost in the semi-finals of the UK Championship 9-0 and in the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship to Steve Davis and was eliminated with only one defeat in the group stage of the Champion of Champions and the Yamaha Organs Trophy . He also lost his opening games at both the Classic and the Welsh Professional Championship and at the amateur level at the Pontins Spring Open . On the world rankings he was in third place in the coming season, which for him was the best place on the world rankings of his career.

Relegation and establishment in the top 10

The 1981/82 season was marked for Griffiths with a duel extending over several finals between him and Steve Davis , who rose to become the dominant player of the decade. Griffiths was defeated by Davis in the final of the UK Championship with 3:16, in the final of the Masters with 5: 9 and in the final of the International Masters with 7: 9, and the English team defeated Davis, John Spencer and David Taylor in World Cup final of the Welsh team. In contrast, Griffiths defeated Davis, who was ten years his junior, 9: 8 in the Classics final , although Davis had previously played the first officially recognized maximum break in a professional tournament, and 9: 5 in the Irish Masters final . Griffiths also reached the finals at the Welsh Professional Championship , where he lost in the Decider to Doug Mountjoy . Griffiths also took part in other tournaments, but was eliminated before the final. He lost to Alex Higgins in the quarterfinals of the International Open and lost to Steve Davis in the Northern Ireland Classics semifinals , while he lost 7-0 to his compatriot Ray Reardon in the Pontins Professional semifinals . What hurt the most, however, was the early break at the World Snooker Championship , when he lost his opening game 6:10 to Willie Thorne . This defeat, which replaced Griffiths' world title in the world rankings counting system , slipped eleven places to 14th place.

In the next season Griffiths could not reach the finals in many minor tournaments and some were eliminated early. He lost in the group stage of the Pontins Professional and in the second round of the Classics , and he was defeated in the quarterfinals of the Masters Cliff Thorburn. However, he reached the semifinals at the Scottish Masters , the Welsh Professional Championship and the Irish Masters and the semifinals group at the International Masters and lost in the final of the Tolly Cobbold Classics 7-5 against Steve Davis. He also moved into the final of the World Doubles Championship together with Doug Mountjoy , where he was defeated by Steve Davis and Tony Meo with 2:13 . It so happened that Griffiths only won one tournament during the professional season. However, it was the UK Championship , so he had won all three Triple Crown tournaments by the 16:15 final victory there over Alex Higgins after Steve Davis as the second player . He also won the Pontins Spring Open at amateur level with a 7-3 win over Ray Reardon . He also reached the quarter-finals at both the International Open and the Professional Players Tournament , which enabled him to improve his world ranking position, as both tournaments were world ranking tournaments from this point on. Even if he lost in the round of 16 of the Snooker World Championship at the end of the season , he was able to improve to ninth place.

Right at the beginning of the 1983/84 season Griffiths lost in the final of the Hong Kong Masters 3: 4 against Doug Mountjoy. During the season he was also defeated by Jimmy White in the Masters final with 5: 9 and in the Irish Masters final by Steve Davis with 1: 9 and with the Welsh team with 2: 4 to the English team in the final of the World Cup . Only in Pot Black did he win his final 2-1 against John Spencer . With regard to the world ranking tournaments, Griffiths was also able to achieve good placements: At the International Open he lost 8: 9 in the semifinals against Cliff Thorburn, in the further course of the season in both the Classic and the World Snooker Championship in the quarter-finals against Steve Davis and in the Professional Players Tournament in the round of 16 against Eugene Hughes from Ireland . He also just missed defending his title at the UK Championship when he lost to Alex Higgins in the semifinals, as well as participating in the semifinals group of the International Masters and a semifinal participation in the Welsh Professional Championship . Only at the Thailand Masters , the Scottish Masters and the Pontins Professional could Griffiths not win a single game, but all three tournaments were invitation or so-called non-ranking tournaments without any influence on the world rankings. On this, Griffiths was able to improve by just one place to eighth despite the results in the world ranking tournaments.

Also at the start of the following season Griffiths reached a final, which he lost 3: 4 in the final of the Thailand Masters against Jimmy White. He then won two leagues in Asia, the Malaysian Masters and the Singapore Masters , before having to wait until the end of the season for further finals. At this point, however, Griffiths was able to win both the Welsh Professional Championship and the Pontins Professional and thus close the season with two tournament wins. In the meantime Griffiths was far away from the ranking tournaments but only at the Masters , where he reached the semifinals and lost to Doug Mountjoy , his opening game, which was not the case at the Hong Kong Masters , the Scottish Masters and the Irish Masters . He also lost his opening games against Tony Jones and Cliff Wilson in two ranking tournaments, the Grand Prix and the UK Championship , and he was eliminated at the British Open in the round of 32 and at the International Open in the round of 16. Only in the Classic and the Snooker World Championship did he reach the quarter-finals and was thus able to reach his world ranking level. In the world rankings he was able to keep his eighth place despite the deteriorated results.

Raised to fifth place in the world rankings and participated in the 1988 World Cup final

As in previous years, Griffiths was particularly successful in the 1985/86 season in the small invitation and non-ranking tournaments. Griffiths reached the finals of the Thailand Masters and the Singapore Masters shortly after the start of the season and then won the Hong Kong Masters with a 4-2 win over Steve Davis . Shortly after the turn of the year, Griffiths was able to win the Belgian Classic by defeating Kirk Stevens before winning the Welsh Professional Championship for the second time in a row against Doug Mountjoy . At the end of the season, Griffiths was also able to defend his title with the Pontins Professional with a victory over Willie Thorne . Only in a few such tournaments he was eliminated before the final, mostly in the quarter-finals such as the Canadian Masters or in the semifinals such as the KitKat Break for World Champions . Only at the Irish Masters did he lose his opening game before the quarter-finals. Regarding the ranking tournaments Griffiths could also show mostly good results, only in the Classic he lost his opening game. With the exception of a round of 16 defeat at the Matchroom Trophy , Griffiths was able to reach the quarter-finals in all other world rankings tournaments, including the UK Championship and World Snooker Championship at the third Triple Crown tournament, the prestigious Masters invitation tournament . In the world rankings, however, he slipped two places to tenth place.

In the following season , Griffiths' performance deteriorated for a short time. He reached only two finals during the season and lost them 2-1 to James Wattana at the Thailand Masters and 3-0 to Steve Davis at the China Masters . In all other invitation and non-ranking tournaments, Griffiths was mostly eliminated in the quarter-finals such as the Kent Cup or the semi-finals such as the Australian Masters , and less often in earlier rounds such as Pot Black in the round of 16 or the group stage of the Matchroom League . He also did a little worse in the world ranking tournaments, when he lost four times in the round of 16 and only reached the quarter-finals in the Classic and World Snooker Championships and lost to Jimmy White and Steve Davis, who was world champion for the fourth time. Nevertheless, Griffiths was able to improve slightly on the world rankings and was thus led in fourth place in the following season.

The following season 1987/88 was successful again. At the beginning of the season Griffiths lost both in the final of the Tokyo Masters and in that of the Scottish Masters Dennis Taylor and Joe Johnson and was able to win the Welsh Professional Championship again shortly before the end of the season with a 9-3 win over Wayne Jones . Even in the other smaller tournaments and the Masters , he could usually do well, for example when he reached the semi-finals at the Irish Masters . In the world ranking tournaments, however, Griffiths dropped out much earlier than he lost at the International Open and the British Open in the round of 32 and at the Grand Prix in the round of 16. In contrast, he reached the quarter-finals at the UK Championship and the Classic and was also able to record a great success at the end of the season: At the World Snooker Championship , he reached the final for the second time since 1979, which he did, however, with 11:18 against Steve Davis lost. However, he was able to improve to fifth place in the world rankings and was one of the top five players in the world again after seven years.

Relegation to eleventh place in the world rankings

During the 1988/89 season Griffiths was able to reach the quarter-finals a total of eight times in invitation tournaments - including the Masters - but was eliminated in seven cases in the same round. Only at the Norwich Union Grand Prix could Griffiths advance and lost in the semi-finals. In other smaller tournaments Griffiths was eliminated in the group stage of the Matchroom League or by a 6: 9 final defeat against Doug Mountjoy at the Welsh Professional Championship . Regarding the world ranking tournaments, he lost a total of two opening games, but lost among other things only once in the round of 16 and three times in the quarter-finals - including the World Snooker Championship . He also lost at the UK Championship in the semi-finals and was defeated 8: 9 in the final of the European Open to John Parrott . As a result, Griffiths managed to maintain fifth place in the world rankings.

During the following season Griffiths reached at invitation tournaments once each of the last sixteen, the quarterfinals and the semifinals and the final at the Scottish Masters , in which he had to admit defeat with 1:10 Stephen Hendry . He was also eliminated from the Matchroom International League in the group stage and at the Welsh Professional Championship in the quarter-finals against Darren Morgan . In the world ranking tournaments, however, Griffiths lost three times in the round of the last 64 and in the round of the last 32. However, he also reached higher rounds in three tournaments; so he was eliminated from the World Snooker Championship in the quarter-finals and at both the Asian Open and the UK Championship in the semifinals. This allowed Griffiths to reduce the loss of world rankings to a single rank.

Within the following season 1990/91 Griffiths dropped out of numerous invitation and non-ranking tournaments in the early rounds and could only reach higher rounds in some of these. With regard to the latter, he reached the quarter-finals in the men's individual competition at the World Masters , the semi- finals at the World Matchplay and Masters and again the final of the Scottish Masters , which he lost again with 6:10 to Stephen Hendry. Griffiths was also eliminated from several ranking tournaments in the early rounds and was only able to reach the round of 16 or a higher round in a total of three tournaments, so that his best results of the season remained quarter-finals at the Dubai Classic and the World Snooker Championship . On the world rankings, this meant slipping to eleventh place.

In the top 10 for last years

Also during the 1991/92 season Griffiths lost in most of the invitation and non-ranking tournaments in the early rounds; only at the World Seniors Championship he could win more than one game in a row and was defeated in the semifinals by his Welsh compatriot Cliff Wilson . In the ranking tournaments Griffiths was also unable to win several times in the early rounds and was eliminated a total of six times in or before the round of 16 of such a tournament. In contrast, he was able to reach the quarter-finals or the semi-finals four times and lost in the Grand Prix and the British Open in the quarter and at the European Open as well as at the World Snooker Championship in the semi-finals. In addition, he managed to return to the top ten places in the world rankings and subsequently came in sixth.

In the 1992/93 season Griffiths played almost a third fewer games than in the previous season, which was mainly due to the eight increased number of defeats at the beginning. He also lost in two ranking tournaments in the round of 32 and was eliminated from both the World Snooker Championship and the International Open in the round of 16. Apart from that, he reached the semi-finals of the Kent Classic invitation tournament , the quarter-finals of the Dubai Classic rankings and the semi- finals of the Grand Prix . All in all, he still fell two places in the world rankings to eighth place.

In the next season Griffiths lost again six opening games and in the Pot Black Cup in the quarterfinals against Stephen Hendry . In addition, he reached the round of 16 of a ranking tournament five times, but only came through once and in this case lost in the quarter-finals of the UK Championship to his compatriot Darren Morgan . In terms of the world rankings, this meant slipping to 14th place, which finally left him out of the top ten places in the world rankings.

Last professional years

In the 1994/95 season Griffiths only took part in two invitation tournaments and lost in the Masters in the quarterfinals and in the Charity Challenge in the semifinals. In the ranked tournaments Griffiths was eliminated twice in the round of 64 and in the round of 32 and four times in the round of 16. He was only able to reach the quarterfinals at the European Open , where he lost to John Parrott . In the world rankings, however, he only lost one place and with 15th place was only barely in the top 16 ranks of the world rankings.

In the following season Griffiths only took part in the Charity Challenge and the Masters in relation to the invitation tournaments and was eliminated in the round of 16 and in the wildcard round . In the ranking tournaments this season, however, he lost a total of three times in the round of the last 64, four times in the round of 32 and at the European Open and the World Snooker Championship in the round of 16. In addition, he reached a single quarter-finals again and was defeated in the same round of the Thailand Classics by world champion Stephen Hendry . At the end of the season he was for the first time no longer in the top sixteen ranks of the world rankings when he was only 23rd in the new world rankings.

In the 1996/97 season Griffiths only took part in two tournaments and heralded the end of his professional career. His first tournament participation took place in the Seniors Pot Black , a special format of the Pot Black Cup , where he defeated Ray Reardon and Graham Miles , but was defeated in the final Joe Johnson . This is particularly noteworthy as it allowed Griffiths to reach the final of both his second professional tournament ever - the 1979 World Snooker Championship - and his penultimate tournament, even if he did not win the latter. At the end of the season Griffiths had to qualify for the first time for the main round of the Snooker World Championship, which he also managed with a 10: 4 win over Alfie Burden . The following match was the last professional match of his career, which he lost against his compatriot and later three-time world champion Mark Williams with 9:10. He then put - crashed on the 95th rank in the world rankings - after exactly 999 in Crucible Theater played frames his professional status down.

Further life

The Terry Griffiths Matchroom in Llanelli

Following his professional career, Griffiths became a snooker commentator for the BBC on the one hand and snooker trainer on the other, and has so far worked for numerous top players such as Ding Junhui , Barry Hawkins and Mark Allen . Griffiths himself was coached for a while during his career by Frank Callan , who also worked with Steve Davis , John Parrott, and others. As one of the most sought-after coaches, he coached six players at the same time with Ding, Hawkins, Allen, Mark Davis , Michael Holt and Jack Lisowski in the 2015/16 season . At times he also held the position of WPBSA Director of Coaching after running for the WPBSA board in 1998 and retiring during the election due to an internal dispute. Even Stephen Hendry took Griffiths between seasons 2000/01 and 2001/02 successful as a coach, when he had problems with his cue game. Griffiths then continued his involvement with Hendry and managed to motivate Hendry through recorded conversations during a low phase.

Griffiths also owns a snooker club in his hometown, the Terry Griffiths Matchroom . The club was founded in 1987 and was particularly popular in the 1990s as a training venue for young Welsh talents such as Matthew Stevens , Darren Morgan and, last but not least, Mark Williams due to the weekly Pro-Am events there . Since 1997 the club has had a Welsh Junior Snooker Academy initiated by Griffiths . Griffiths' Matchroom hosted the 2019/20 Challenge Tour .

Style of play

Griffiths was considered one of the most passionate and talented players of his time. He was known, like most of the players of the time, for his slow, deliberate style of play, to which the Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan remarked that he "could have put in a short 10k run while they [Griffiths and Cliff Thorburn ] thought about a push. ”However, since Griffiths could also play quickly, he unsettled his opponents partially. In addition, Griffiths, who was constantly fine-tuning his playing style, was a player with strong nerves who could also excel with his handling of the cue. Because of this quality and his entertainment skills, he is a two-time trick shot world champion . Griffiths, who had very good tactics and a good safety game, also rarely risked an unsafe shot.

Popularity and honors

Even if Griffiths was partially ridiculed for his style of play, he was considered one of the most popular professional players. This was due, for example, to the charm and level-headedness he exuded during the 1979 World Snooker Championship, but also to Griffiths' dry sense of humor and his composure. He earned a lot of sympathy primarily through an interview with David Vine , in which he uttered the following sentence:

"I'm in the final now, you know!"

"I'm in the final now, as you know!"

- Terry Griffiths : Interview with David Vine after his 19:17 win over Eddie Charlton in the 1979 World Snooker Championship semifinals

Griffiths was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honors . He was also inducted into the Snooker Hall of Fame in 2013 .

Personal

Griffiths is considered a family man, so it was difficult for him to be away from home for long due to the normal tournament calendar, exhibitions or other obligations. He has his own family there with his wife Annette and their two children. One of his sons is Wayne Griffiths, who also worked as a trainer in Hong Kong for a long time . Griffiths was known for packing his bags before a match so that he could make his way to the airport as quickly as possible in the event of a defeat. Griffiths is also close friends with Dennis Taylor , who became world champion in 1985 after losing the 1979 World Cup final. The friendship also went back to the 1979 World Cup, when Griffiths still didn't have a car after his 1979 World Cup victory and asked Taylor if he could put the World Cup trophy in his trunk. Taylor agreed and in retrospect could not believe that he had the World Cup trophy in his trunk as the loser in the World Cup final.

successes

→ Main article : Terry Griffiths / Achievements

During his career, Taylor reached the final of a tournament on 56 occasions. While a list of all finals is on this page , the following is a list of his finals in the Triple Crown tournaments .

output	year	competition	finalist	Frames
winner	1979	World Snooker Championship	Dennis Taylor	24:16
winner	1980	Masters	Alex Higgins	9: 5
finalist	1980	UK Championship	John Virgo	13:14
finalist	1981	Masters	Alex Higgins	6: 9
finalist	1981	UK Championship	Steve Davis	3:16
finalist	1982	Masters	Steve Davis	5: 9
winner	1982	UK Championship	Alex Higgins	16:15
finalist	1984	Masters	Jimmy White	5: 9
finalist	1988	World Snooker Championship	Steve Davis	11:18

Web links

• Terry Griffiths in the snooker Database (English)
• Profile of Terry Griffiths on CueTracker
• Terry Griffiths website
• Terry Griffiths in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

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