Tournament information | |
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Dates | 21–24 February 1983 |
Venue | Corn Exchange |
City | Ipswich |
Country | England |
Organisation | WPBSA |
Format | Non-Ranking event |
Total prize fund | £15,000 plus highest break prize |
Winner's share | £5,000 |
Highest break | Steve Davis (100) |
Final | |
Champion | Steve Davis |
Runner-up | Terry Griffiths |
Score | 7–5 |
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The 1983 Tolly Cobbold Classic was the fifth edition of the professional invitational snooker tournament, which was scheduled from 21 to 23 February 1983. [1] [2] The tournament was played at the Corn Exchange in Ipswich, and featured eight professional players. [3]
Steve Davis won the title for the second time in succession, beating Terry Griffiths 7–5 in the final, which finished at 1:50am. [3] [4] Davis also made the highest break of the competition, 100, in the last frame of his match against Dennis Taylor. [3]
The prize fundwas allocated as follows: [3]
Results for the tournament are shown below. Winning players are denoted in bold. [3]
First round Best of 7 frames | Semi-finals Best of 9 frames | Final Best of 13 frames | ||||||||||||
Terry Griffiths | 4 | |||||||||||||
Ray Reardon | 2 | |||||||||||||
Terry Griffiths | 5 | |||||||||||||
Bill Werbeniuk | 3 | |||||||||||||
Bill Werbeniuk | 4 | |||||||||||||
Doug Mountjoy | 2 | |||||||||||||
Terry Griffiths | 5 | |||||||||||||
Steve Davis | 7 | |||||||||||||
Steve Davis | 4 | |||||||||||||
Jimmy White | 3 | |||||||||||||
Steve Davis | 5 | |||||||||||||
Dennis Taylor | 1 | |||||||||||||
Alex Higgins | 2 | |||||||||||||
Dennis Taylor | 4 |
Final: Best of 13 frames. Corn Exchange, Ipswich, England, 23 February 1983. [3] | ||
Steve Davis England | 7–5 | Terry Griffiths Wales |
1–106, 83(57)–39, 68–41, 20–61, 66(52)–16, 64–52, 90–26, 40–75, 43–52, 69–74(64), 69–45, 92(63)–52 | ||
63 | Highest break | 64 |
0 | Century breaks | 0 |
3 | 50+ breaks | 1 |
100 Steve Davis
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