1985 Kit Kat Break for World Champions
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 17–20 December 1985 |
| Venue | East Midlands Conference Centre |
| City | Nottingham |
| Country | England |
| Organisation | WPBSA |
| Format | Non-Ranking event |
| Total prize fund | £30,000 |
| Winner's share | £10,000 |
| Highest break | 126 (Dennis Taylor) |
| Final | |
| Champion |  Dennis Taylor |
| Runner-up |  Steve Davis |
| Score | 9–5 |
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The 1985 Kit Kat Break for World Champions was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place from 17 to 20 December 1985.[1][2] Dennis Taylor won the event by defeating Steve Davis 9–5 in the final.
The tournament was played at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham, with all eight of the actively playing winners of the World Snooker Championship as the participants.[1]
Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor met in a final for the third time this season. Davis' 10–9 victory in the 1985 Grand Prix had been followed by Taylor's 9–5 win in the 1985 Canadian Masters.[3] Davis achieved a 4–3 lead by the end of the first session of the Kit Kat Break for World Champions final,[2] but Taylor won six of the next seven frames to take the match 9–5.[3]
The event had a prize fund of £30,000, with £10,000 awarded to the winner.[3] Taylor compiled the highest break of the event, 126.[4]
Main draw
[edit]Names in bold denote match winners.[3]
| Quarter-finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-finals Best of 11 frames | Final Best of 17 frames | ||||||||||||
| Dennis Taylor
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| Fred Davis
| 0 | |||||||||||||
| Dennis Taylor
| 6 | |||||||||||||
 Terry Griffiths
| 4 | |||||||||||||
| Terry Griffiths
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| Ray Reardon
| 2 | |||||||||||||
| Dennis Taylor
| 9 | |||||||||||||
| Steve Davis
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| Steve Davis
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| John Spencer
| 2 | |||||||||||||
| Steve Davis
| 6 | |||||||||||||
| Alex Higgins
| 1 | |||||||||||||
 Cliff Thorburn
| 4 | |||||||||||||
| Alex Higgins
| 5 | |||||||||||||
Century breaks
[edit]126 Dennis Taylor
118 Terry Griffiths
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sport in brief: snooker". The Times. London. 17 December 1985.
- ^ a b "Sport in brief: snooker". The Times. London. 21 December 1985.
- ^ a b c d Clive Everton, ed. (1986). Benson and Hedges Snooker Year (Third Edition). Aylesbury: Pelham Books. p. 76. ISBN 0863691668.
- ^ Morrison, Ian (1989). Snooker: records, facts and champions. Enfield: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 108. ISBN 0851123643.