Snooker player joe won english amateur championship 1990

A lot has changed since snooker was first invented back in by members of the British Army and you can now chart the development of snooker down the years via our unique timeline. A world ranking list was introduced to snooker for the first time, initially based upon the results of the previous three World Championship tournaments. The World Championship was held at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield for the first time having been identified as suitable by Carol Watterson, wife of promoter Mike Watterson. The tournament has remained there ever since. Steve Davis became the first player to make a break in professional competition during the fifth frame of his match against John Spencer at the Lada Classic.

For a chance to win, answer the 15 snooker questions below. Send your answers by e-mail to competitions worldsnooker. There are still tickets available for the tournament, to book your seats call call or visit www. How many world finals has Steve Davis lost in his career? But which Chinese player did he beat in round two? Name the player who won both the Thailand Masters and China Open in ? Williams 6.

He is best known as the surprise winner of the World Championship. Johnson was National Under champion in and three times Yorkshire Champion. He was runner-up to Terry Griffiths in the English Amateur championship of and, with Griffiths being a Welshman, Johnson qualified as England's representative in that year's World Amateur in Malta. He gave a very good account of himself and reached the final where he lost to Cliff Wilson. This prompted Johnson to turn professional in

It is over years since a young officer in the British Army, experimenting on a billiard table, came up with the game we now know as snooker. The first ever Indian Open ranking tournament was staged in New Delhi in , an occasion celebrated with gusto throughout the snooker world. This was partly due to the emergence of two fine professional players from that country, eventual finalist Aditya Mehta and former billiards champion Pankaj Advani, with the prospect of plenty more to follow. However it also provided the perfect opportunity to reflect upon the very origins of the sport years earlier, with the game having been invented in by the British Army in the Indian town of Jubbulpore or Jabalpur, as it is now known situated around miles south-east of the capital.