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How many of the regular commentators and summerizers of the BBCs coverage of snooker world championships are former world champions?
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Only Joe Davis and his younger brother Fred have held both the World billiard championship and the World snooker championship.
Joe was billiards champion from 1928 to 1931 and held the snooker championship from 1927 to 1946. (For many of those years the tournament format was such that the defending champion received a bye into the final).
Brother Fred, then aged 67, won the billiards championship in 1980 (there were two world championship competitions held that year and Fred won them both). He was snooker world champion eight times between 1948 and 1956.
None of the modern day snooker players (or commentators) have come close to winning the world billiards championship (in fact few, if any, play the game competitively). The last top snooker player to get close was “Steady” Eddie Charlton who lost in the 1988 final.
Only Joe Davis and his younger brother Fred have held both the World billiard championship and the World snooker championship.
Joe was billiards champion from 1928 to 1931 and held the snooker championship from 1927 to 1946. (For many of those years the tournament format was such that the defending champion received a bye into the final).
Brother Fred, then aged 67, won the billiards championship in 1980 (there were two world championship competitions held that year and Fred won them both). He was snooker world champion eight times between 1948 and 1956.
None of the modern day snooker players (or commentators) have come close to winning the world billiards championship (in fact few, if any, play the game competitively). The last top snooker player to get close was “Steady” Eddie Charlton who lost in the 1988 final.
Definitely, jim.
I recall some years ago a tournament on the telly where pool and snooker players competed in the two games. I remember "Interesting" Davis and John Parrott being among the snooker players who took part.
I cannot remember the format but I do remember that the pool players did far better at snooker than the snooker players did at pool. I found that surprising because I'd always considered pool to be considerably easier to play decently than snooker (and, incidentally, snooker to be a far easier game to play than billiards).
I have a friend who is a regular century breaker in snooker (he plays with Ronnie O'Sullivan from time to time when Ronnie is practising) but he also enters the world amateur billiards championship each year. He is (by my pathetic standards) a very good player in both games (though nowhere near good enough to get very far in the world championship) and plays pool occasionally. He is with me on the relevant difficulty of each of the games (pool; snooker; billiards in ascending order of difficulty). So I could never understand why the snooker players in that competetion did relatively poorly at pool.
I recall some years ago a tournament on the telly where pool and snooker players competed in the two games. I remember "Interesting" Davis and John Parrott being among the snooker players who took part.
I cannot remember the format but I do remember that the pool players did far better at snooker than the snooker players did at pool. I found that surprising because I'd always considered pool to be considerably easier to play decently than snooker (and, incidentally, snooker to be a far easier game to play than billiards).
I have a friend who is a regular century breaker in snooker (he plays with Ronnie O'Sullivan from time to time when Ronnie is practising) but he also enters the world amateur billiards championship each year. He is (by my pathetic standards) a very good player in both games (though nowhere near good enough to get very far in the world championship) and plays pool occasionally. He is with me on the relevant difficulty of each of the games (pool; snooker; billiards in ascending order of difficulty). So I could never understand why the snooker players in that competetion did relatively poorly at pool.
Having tried my hand at Snooker and Pool I would say that snooker is far harder, of course -- but perhaps there are some subtleties in pool playing that those who play mainly snooker won't pick up on. Different tactics, most obviously because your object balls are different from your opponent's. That might explain pool players beating Snooker players, at least.
I've not touched a cue in anger for a year or so, though -- and never tried billiards once.
I've not touched a cue in anger for a year or so, though -- and never tried billiards once.
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