page_title: 1987 World Snooker Championship
section_title: Quarter-finals
hierarchical_section_title: 1987 World Snooker Championship / Tournament summary / Quarter-finals
caption_attribution_description: English: Miscellaneous photos of the Venue, Interviews, TV-Shows etc. Eurosport-UK commentatores Neal Fould and Jimmy White in an interview with Shaun Murphy after his victory against Mark Allen.
context_page_description: The 1987 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place between 18 April and 4 May 1987 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the sixth and final ranking event of the 1986–87 snooker season. The championship was the 1987 edition of the World Snooker Championship, first held in 1927. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy. The event had a prize fund of £400,000 with the winner receiving £80,000.
  Defending champion Joe Johnson had a disappointing season in terms of results since his 1986 victory, but, as a 66–1 outsider to win, reached the final again. In a rematch of the previous year's final, Johnson played Steve Davis in the final. Davis won his fourth championship by defeating Johnson 18–14. Davis made the highest break of the event, a 127, in the first frame of the final. A total of 18 century breaks were made during the event. Stephen Hendry became the youngest player to win a match at the World Snooker Championship, whilst the event was the last time that six-times champion Ray Reardon appeared at the World Championships.
context_section_description: The quarter-final matches were also played as the best-of-25 frames over three sessions, on 28 and 29 April. Joe Johnson led Stephen Hendry 8–1 and 12–8, before Hendry won four frames in-a-row to take the match to a deciding frame at 12–12. Johnson took a 48–6 points lead in the final frame with a break of 46, and after Hendry failed in an attempt to pot a red to let Johnson in again, took the match 13–12. Hallett made two century breaks in the first session of his match against Foulds, who also compiled a century break, with their first session ending at 4–4. Foulds then opened up a lead, leading 10–6 and 12–7 before winning at 13–9.
  Davis was 4–3 ahead of Griffiths after their first session, and 10–5 ahead by the end of the second. He wrapped up a 13–5 win and with breaks of 62, 86 and 51 in three frames in the final session. Jimmy White won all of the frames in the first session in his match against Dene O'Kane, and led 9–0. White saw out the match to win 13–6.
caption: Neal Foulds (pictured in 2015) reached the semi-finals for the only time in his career by defeating Mike Hallett 13–9
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