1983 Junior Pot Black
Tournament information | |
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Dates | Spring 1983 (Broadcast 5–21 July 1983) |
Venue | Pebble Mill Studios |
City | Birmingham |
Country | England |
Format | Non-Ranking event |
Winner's share | £250 |
Highest break | John Parrott, Steve Ventham (65)? |
Final | |
Champion | John Parrott |
Runner-up | Steve Ventham |
Score | 2–0 |
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The 1983 Junior Pot Black was the third staging of the junior snooker tournament and last of the original run which was held in the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. 8 young players were competing in a knockout format. The matches are one-frame shoot-outs and a 2 frame aggregate score in the final.
Broadcasts were twice weekly on BBC2 except the final which was on three times and the series started at 18:30 on Tuesday 5 July 1983.[1] Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and with John Williams unavailable, Vic Bartlam took the role as referee.
As the previous year's champion Dean Reynolds turned professional, The only players from the last series competing this year were John Parrott, Neal Foulds, John Keers and Jonathan White and Parrott and Keers met in the final which Parrott won.[2][3]
Main Draw
Quarter-finals 5-6, 12–13 July 1983 | Semi-finals 19 and 20 July 1983 | Final 21 July 1983 | ||||||||||||
Mark Thompson | 0 | |||||||||||||
John Keers | 1 | Mark Thompson | 0 | |||||||||||
John Parrott | 1 | John Parrott | 1 | |||||||||||
Brian Rosewell | 0 | John Parrott | 1 | |||||||||||
Stephen Hendry | 1 | Steve Ventham | 0 | |||||||||||
Nicolas Pearce | 0 | Stephen Hendry | 0 | |||||||||||
Steve Ventham | 1 | Steve Ventham | 1 | |||||||||||
Chris Hamson | 0 |
References
- ↑ "BBC Television – 5 July 1983 – Junior Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- ↑ "BBC Television – 1 September 1982 – Junior Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- ↑ "CueTracker - 1981 Pot Black - Snooker Results & Statistics". cuetracker.net. Retrieved 25 February 2017.