The World Snooker Championship was first held in 1927. Joe Davis, a key figure and pioneer in the sport’s early growth, won fifteen consecutive world championships between 1927 and 1946.
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Snooker’s “modern era” began in 1969, when the BBC commissioned the television series Pot Black, which later aired daily coverage of the World Championship, which was first televised in 1978.
A total of £2.395 million in money is up for grabs at the World Snooker Championship, with the winner handed a cheque for a hefty £500,000.
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Snooker is a cue sport that was invented in the second half of the nineteenth century by British Army officers stationed in India. It is played on a rectangular table covered in a green cloth known as baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the centre of each long side.
Individual players or teams use a cue stick to strike the white cue ball to pot other balls in a predetermined sequence, accumulating points for each successful pot and each foul committed by the opposing player or team.
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