1992 World Snooker Championship

The 1992 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 1992 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 18 April and 4 May 1992 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.

Embassy World Snooker Championship

Tournament information
Dates	18 April – 4 May 1992
Venue	Crucible Theatre
City	Sheffield
Country	England
Organisation(s)	WPBSA
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	£850,000
Winner's share	£150,000
Highest break	Jimmy White (147)
Final
Champion	Stephen Hendry
Runner-up	Jimmy White
Score	18–14
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John Parrott was the defending champion but he lost 12–13 to Alan McManus in the quarter-finals and fell to the Crucible curse, becoming another champion unable to defend his first world title.

Stephen Hendry was the eventual winner, after defeating Jimmy White 18–14 in the final. At one point White led by 14–8, but Hendry then won 10 successive frames to secure his second World Championship title.[1]

Tournament summary

• Debutants at the Crucible this year were Peter Ebdon,[2] Mark Johnston-Allen,[3] Mick Price,[4] Chris Small,[5] Stephen Murphy,[6] Nigel Bond[7] and James Wattana.[8] Ebdon, Price, Small and Wattana reached the second round.[9]
• Steve Davis' 4–10 defeat to qualifier Ebdon was his first loss in the opening round since 1982. It also ended his nine-year streak of reaching at least the semi-finals of the tournament.[10]
• Jimmy White became only the second player ever to compile a maximum break at the Crucible, during his 10–4 first round win over Tony Drago, nine years after Cliff Thorburn's maximum in 1983.[11] The highest break of the qualifying stage was 141 made by Joe Johnson.[9]
• The 10–0 win by defending champion John Parrott over Eddie Charlton in the first round was the first-ever whitewash in Crucible history.[1][12] There would not be another whitewash until Shaun Murphy's 10–0 defeat of Luo Honghao in 2019.[13]
• Eight of the sixteen seeded players exited the tournament in the first round. This did not happen again until 2012.[14]
• Stephen Hendry secured a record in the semi-final, when he beat Terry Griffiths 16–4. This was the biggest semi-final victory at the World Championship, until it was superseded by Ronnie O'Sullivan in 2004 when he defeated Hendry 17–4.[15]
• The final was notable for Hendry producing a massive comeback to overturn a sizeable deficit against White: Hendry trailed 8–14 during the third session, before winning ten consecutive frames to take his second world title with an 18–14 victory. This match was showcased on BBC Two on 24 April 2020, one of the "Crucible Classics" shown in place of the 2020 World Snooker Championship which was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.[16]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:[9][17]

Winner: £150,000 Runner-up: £90,000 Semi-final: £45,000 Quarter-final: £22,500 Last 16: £12,000 Last 32: £6,500 Last 48: £5,000 Last 64: £3,000 Last 96: £1,375

Last 128: £750 Last 155: £500 Qualifying stage highest break: £4,000 Televised stage highest break: £14,000 Televised stage maximum break: £100,000 Total: £850,000

Main draw

Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers).[9][18][19][20]

First round

Second round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Best of 19 frames

Best of 25 frames

Best of 25 frames

Best of 31 frames

18 April

John Parrott (1)

10

23, 24 & 25 April

Eddie Charlton

0

John Parrott (1)

13

18 & 19 April

Tony Knowles (16)

4

Tony Knowles (16)

10

28 & 29 April

Mark Johnston-Allen

4

John Parrott (1)

12

20 & 21 April

Alan McManus

13

Dennis Taylor (9)

6

24 & 25 April

Mick Price

10

Mick Price

10

19 & 20 April

Alan McManus

13

Mike Hallett (8)

8

30 April, 1 & 2 May

Alan McManus

10

Alan McManus

7

21 April

Jimmy White (4)

16

Gary Wilkinson (5)

6

26 & 27 April

Willie Thorne

10

Willie Thorne

6

19 & 20 April

Jim Wych

13

Dean Reynolds (12)

7

28 & 29 April

Jim Wych

10

Jim Wych

9

22 & 23 April

Jimmy White (4)

13

Alain Robidoux (13)

10

25, 26 & 27 April

Nigel Bond

7

Alain Robidoux (13)

11

22 April

Jimmy White (4)

13

Jimmy White (4)

10

Tony Drago

4

19 April

Steve Davis (3)

4

23 & 24 April

Peter Ebdon

10

Peter Ebdon

13

18 April

Martin Clark (14)

4

Martin Clark (14)

10

28 & 29 April

Peter Francisco

7

Peter Ebdon

7

21 & 22 April

Terry Griffiths (11)

13

Terry Griffiths (11)

10

24 & 25 April

Bob Chaperon

8

Terry Griffiths (11)

13

20 & 21 April

Neal Foulds (6)

7

Neal Foulds (6)

10

30 April & 1 May

Jason Ferguson

8

Terry Griffiths (11)

4

21 & 22 April

Stephen Hendry (2)

16

Steve James (7)

9

26 & 27 April

Dene O'Kane

10

Dene O'Kane

13

22 & 23 April

Chris Small

10

Doug Mountjoy (10)

7

28 & 29 April

Chris Small

10

Dene O'Kane

6

20 April

Stephen Hendry (2)

13

Tony Jones (15)

5

25, 26 & 27 April

James Wattana

10

James Wattana

10

18 & 19 April

Stephen Hendry (2)

13

Stephen Hendry (2)

10

Stephen Murphy

3

Final (Best of 35 frames) Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 3 and 4 May 1992. Referee: John Street.[21]
Jimmy White (4)  England	14–18	Stephen Hendry (2)  Scotland
0–107, 117–16, 57–70, 101–15, 69–54, 8–76, 68–53, 67–65, 29–75, 92–9, 47–63, 62–54, 128–6, 71–8, 11–70, 83–28, 90–0, 134–0, 0–86, 7–76, 76–8, 86–52, 35–77, 53–62, 61–63, 56–70, 19–70, 0–128, 30–59, 26–81, 0–134, 5–112	Century breaks: 6 (White 2, Hendry 4) Highest break by White: 134 Highest break by Hendry: 134	0–107, 117–16, 57–70, 101–15, 69–54, 8–76, 68–53, 67–65, 29–75, 92–9, 47–63, 62–54, 128–6, 71–8, 11–70, 83–28, 90–0, 134–0, 0–86, 7–76, 76–8, 86–52, 35–77, 53–62, 61–63, 56–70, 19–70, 0–128, 30–59, 26–81, 0–134, 5–112
Stephen Hendry wins the 1992 Embassy World Snooker Championship

Century breaks

There were 25 century breaks in the championship.[22][23]

147, 135, 134, 104, 101, 100 Jimmy White 134, 130, 128, 112, 105, 103 Stephen Hendry 134, 108, 108 Peter Ebdon 132, 117 Neal Foulds 132 Mick Price 129 Nigel Bond

114, 107 Dene O'Kane 114 Dean Reynolds 110 Chris Small 108 Tony Knowles 106 Willie Thorne

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