Pot Black
Pot Black

Pot Black

Section Title: Pot Black
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Year	Winner	Runner-up	Final score (frames)	Final score (points)	Highest break

1969	Wales Ray Reardon	England John Spencer	1–0	88–29	Wales Ray Reardon (99)

1970	England John Spencer	Wales Ray Reardon	1–0	88–27	England Fred Davis (54)

1971	England John Spencer	England Fred Davis	1–0	61–40	England Fred Davis (73)

1972	Australia Eddie Charlton	Wales Ray Reardon	1–0	75–43	England John Spencer (66)

1973	Australia Eddie Charlton	England Rex Williams	1–0	93–33	Australia Eddie Charlton (110)

1974	England Graham Miles	England John Spencer	147–86	England Graham Miles (68)

1975	England Graham Miles	Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor	1–0	81–27	England Fred Davis (87)

1976	England John Spencer	Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor	1–0	69–42	Australia Eddie Charlton (64)

1977	South Africa Perrie Mans	Wales Doug Mountjoy	1–0	90–21	South Africa Perrie Mans (59)

1978	Wales Doug Mountjoy	England Graham Miles	2–1	43–55, 97–23, 111–16	Wales Doug Mountjoy (101)

1979	Wales Ray Reardon	Wales Doug Mountjoy	2–1	79–51, 25–82, 84–41	Wales Doug Mountjoy (82)

1980	Australia Eddie Charlton	Wales Ray Reardon	2–1	16–74, 85–30, 68–54	Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor (87)

1981	Canada Cliff Thorburn	Canada Jim Wych	2–0	68–39, 85–50	Canada Kirk Stevens (79)

1982	England Steve Davis	Australia Eddie Charlton	2–0	82–40, 85–38	Australia Eddie Charlton (98)

1983	England Steve Davis	Wales Ray Reardon	2–0	61–60, 82–47	Wales Ray Reardon (91)

1984	Wales Terry Griffiths	England John Spencer	2–1	57–65, 77–8, 70–35	Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor (81)

1985	Wales Doug Mountjoy	England Jimmy White	2–0	64-5, 66-30	England Jimmy White (80)

1986	England Jimmy White	Canada Kirk Stevens	2–0	60-46, 106-21	England Jimmy White (106)

1991	England Steve Davis	Scotland Stephen Hendry	2–1

1992	England Neal Foulds	Thailand James Wattana	1–0

1993	England Steve Davis	England Mike Hallett	2–0	England David Roe (104)

2005	Wales Matthew Stevens	England Shaun Murphy	1–0	53–27	England Shaun Murphy (111)

2006	Wales Mark Williams	Scotland John Higgins	1–0	119–13	Wales Mark Williams (119)

2007	Republic of Ireland Ken Doherty	England Shaun Murphy	1–0	71–36	Scotland Graeme Dott (67)

Sentence(s)

Eddie Charlton notched the first-ever century in 1973, and his 110 break stood as the Pot Black record until Shaun Murphy's 111 in 2005.

final_sentence: Eddie Charlton notched the first-ever century in 1973, and his 110 break stood as the Pot Black record until Shaun Murphy's 111 in 2005.