1970 Pot Black
Tournament information | |
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Dates | early 1970 (Broadcast 23 March-6 July 1970) |
Venue | BBC Studios |
City | Birmingham |
Country | England |
Format | Non-Ranking event |
Highest break | Fred Davis (54) |
Final | |
Champion | John Spencer |
Runner-up | Ray Reardon |
Score | 88–27 |
← 1969 1971 → |
The 1970 Pot Black was the second year of the professional invitational snooker tournament, which was broadcast in 1970. The tournament was held in Birmingham, and featured eight professional players. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs.
Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started with an introductory program at 21:45 on Monday 23 March 1970[1] This year, the tournament moved to a round-robin format with two groups of 4 and the top two players from each group would qualify to the semi-finals. Alan Weeks took over as presenter with Ted Lowe remaining as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee.
The two finalists from the previous year met again but the result was in reverse. John Spencer beat Ray Reardon 88–27 in the one-frame final broadcast on 6 July.[2][3]
Main Draw
League 1
Player 1 | Score | Player 2 | Broadcast Date |
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Fred Davis | 0–1 | Rex Williams | 30 March 1970 |
John Spencer | 1–0 | Kingsley Kennerley | 13 April 1970 |
Fred Davis | 0–1 | John Spencer | 27 April 1970 |
Rex Williams | 1–0 | Kingsley Kennerley | 11 May 1970 |
Fred Davis | 1–0 | Kingsley Kennerley | 25 May 1970 |
Rex Williams | 1–0 | John Spencer | 8 June 1970 |
League 2
Player 1 | Score | Player 2 | Broadcast Date |
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Gary Owen | 0–1 | John Pulman | 6 April 1970 |
Ray Reardon | 1–0 | Jackie Rea | 20 April 1970 |
Gary Owen | 0–1 | Ray Reardon | 4 May 1970 |
John Pulman | 1–0 | Jackie Rea | 18 May 1970 |
Gary Owen | 1–0 | Jackie Rea | 1 June 1970 |
John Pulman | 1–0 | Ray Reardon | 15 June 1970 |
Knockout stage
Semi-finals (22 and 29 June 1970) | Final (6 July 1970) | ||||||||
John Spencer | 1 | ||||||||
John Pulman | 0 | John Spencer | 1 | ||||||
Rex Williams | 0 | Ray Reardon | 0 | ||||||
Ray Reardon | 1 |
References
- ↑ "BBC Television – 23 March 1970 – Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ↑ "BBC Television – 6 July 1970 – Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ↑ http://cuetracker.net/tournaments/pot-black/1970/915