Snooker

SNOOKER. The World Snooker Championship is an annual ranking snooker tournament founded in 1927 and since 1977 played at the Crucible Theatre Sheffield. The tournament is played over seventeen days in late April and early May and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season since 1977/78 when the UK Championship was first held. The event was not held from 1941 to 1945 because of World War 2 or between 1958-1963 due to declining interest. The governing body that currently organises this event is the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Prior to the WPBSA assuming control of the professional game in 1968, the world championship was organised by the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC), except for a few years when the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA) staged their own event, the World Professional Match-play Championship following a dispute with the BACC. The most successful player at the World Snooker Championship was Joe Davis who won fifteen consecutive titles between 1927 and 1946. The record in the modern era is held by Stephen Hendry who won the title seven times between 1990 and 1999.