[181] Davis performed with Kavus Torabi at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival;[182] their collaboration led to the formation of the Utopia Strong, an electronic-music band whose debut album was released on 13 September 2019. Snooker player Steve Davis put his attractive Essex home on the market for £1.25m last summer. According to FamousDetails, he was born in the Year of the Rooster. Steve Davis was born on August 22, 1957 in Plumstead, London, England. Steve Davis Snooker is a sports simulation video game developed by CDS Software, and published by CDS Software in 1985, with a budget release in 1988 published by Blue Ribbon Software. [124] In the Welsh Open, Davis defeated Kurt Maflin 4–2 to qualify for the event's venue stage[125] before losing 0–4 to Mark Selby. Away from the table Steve is also an avid poker player, spending many hours playing online. [136], With an invitational tour card for tournaments in the 2014–15 season, he returned to competitive snooker in the Riga Open in August 2014 (losing 1–4 to Robert Milkins in the last 64). [65], Davis reached his 100th major career final at the 2005 UK Championship in York,[1] his first appearance in the event's final since 1990. … [61][62] After failing to qualify for the World Snooker Championship for the first time in his professional career in 2001, he felt that retiring would be the "easy thing to do"; since he still enjoyed the challenge of snooker, however, he continued playing and regained his place in the top 16 for the 2003–2004 season. … [126] He finished the season in the qualifying stage of the World Championship, losing 7–10 to Maflin. Steve Davis, the six-time snooker world champion, is a long-time music fan. [137] Davis participated in the Paul Hunter Classic, losing 2–4 to Gary Wilson in the last 128. [52] The match is regarded as one of Davis's greatest performances, and was cited in the Guinness Book of Snooker as "The greatest display of potting, break building and safety play ever seen ... no-one could have lived with Davis the way he played at the Crucible in 1989". Steve Davis, OBE (born 22 August 1957) is a retired English professional snooker player from Plumstead, London. TV viewing figures were healthy and Riley Leisure, who had 51 clubs open in the UK at the time, posted a profit of £1.4m for the 17 months up to December 1982. Davis established a 5–2 lead after the first session, but Griffiths levelled at 8–8 after the second. At 52, he was the oldest player to win a match at the Crucible since Eddie Charlton defeated Cliff Thorburn in 1989. In addition to his six world titles, Davis won the Masters three times and the UK Championship six times for a total of 15 Triple Crown titles, placing him third on the all-time list behind Ronnie O'Sullivan (20) and Stephen Hendry (18). Six-times world champ Steve, 62, whose favourite books are science fiction, reckons extra-terrestrial cue maestros could exist. [187], Davis won a record 83 professional titles and was the runner-up in 38 events, with 28 of these as ranking event victories. [60], After a season in which he reached only one ranking event quarter-final, Davis dropped out of the top 16 for the 2000–2001 season[56] and failed to qualify for the World Championship for the next two years. Meetings between snooker players Peter Ebdon and Steve Davis: Match results, Frame scores, centuries, prize money, statistics - Snooker Database of Results & Statistics [132] Davis qualified for the International Championship with a 6–2 win against Allan Taylor,[133] losing 1–6 to Zhao Xintong in the wildcard round. Media in category "Steve Davis, snooker player" The following 73 files are in this category, out of 73 total. £1.00 He was made an MBE in the 1988 Birthday Honours and an OBE in the 2000 New Year Honours. At 10 hours 21 minutes, it was the longest one-day final in snooker history. [43] At the 1986 World Championship, Davis defeated White 13–5 in the quarter-finals and Thorburn 16–12 in the semi-finals. Davis would also be involved with 1996's Virtual Snooker, as [195] Although he is on the board of Leyton Orient F.C., he has been a Charlton Athletic F.C. By Matt Butler. [188] In the book Masters of the Baize, a detailed comparison and ranking of snooker professionals, Luke Williams and Paul Gadsby rated Davis as the third greatest snooker player of all time (behind Joe Davis and Stephen Hendry). The game is the first to feature a license of a professional snooker player, with later Jimmy White creating the Cueball series. His four-year unbeaten run in the UK Championship ended in December with a 3–9 semi-final loss to Hendry. [13] One of his last wins as an amateur was against Tony Meo, another future professional, in the final of the 1978 Pontin's Spring Open. …, Steve Davis believes aliens are real - and they could beat him at snooker, Green baize legend Steve Davis believes little green men are out there – and says they could beat him at snooker. (British TV series) participants, Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, lost in the early rounds of the tournament. [138] He played in the 2014 Champion of Champions event after qualifying with the 2013 World Seniors Championship,[139] losing 1–4 to Mark Selby in the group semi-final. [22][23], Over the next 18 months, Davis won seven more events. [78], In the first round, Davis defeated Mark King 10–9. Around this time he was nicknamed "Nugget" because, according to Hearn, "you could put your case of money on him and you knew you were going to get paid. [150], Davis has become a proficient poker player, with successful appearances at televised tournaments;[151] they included an appearance at the final table of the 2003 Poker Million with fellow snooker player Jimmy White, who eventually won. Five relate to snooker: Successful Snooker (1982),[166] Frame and Fortune (1982),[167] Steve Davis: Snooker Champion (1983),[168] Matchroom Snooker (1988)[169] and The Official Matchroom 1990. [88] He finished 67 on the Order of Merit. [90] He reached the third qualifying round of the German Masters, but was whitewashed by Ryan Day 0–5. [146] Sky Sports commentator Sid Waddell gave him the nickname "Romford Slim", calling him Britain's answer to American pool player Rudolf "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone. After Cahill levelled the match at 2–2, Davis won the next three frames and scored a 131 break in the penultimate frame to qualify for the tournament's main stage;[129] he lost, 1–5, to Andrew Higginson in the last 64. [184][185] A year later they released "Romford Rap", a follow-up single which reached number 91 on the UK charts. [20][21] He won his first major title that year, the 1980 UK Championship, defeating Griffiths 9–0 in the semi-finals and Higgins 16–6 in the final. 1984 Snooker game which got a 77% rating in Crash. He was the unbeatable machine, the automaton of the baize, Romford … Study this photograph and in particular the guy on the right - looks familiar, doesn’t he? The final had 18.5 million viewers, setting records for BBC Two and for a post-midnight audience on British television. [106][107], He began the 2012–13 season at number 51,[108] but did not qualify for the first two ranking events after losing 3–5 to Kurt Maflin in the Wuxi Classic[109] and 0–5 to Michael Wild at the Australian Goldfields Open. New players on the Main Tour do not have a ranking. Davis's father Bill, a keen player, introduced him to snooker at age 12 took him to play at his local working men's club and gave him an instructional book: How I Play Snooker by Joe Davis. [102] He missed the 2012 World Open, losing his first qualifying match 1–5 to Ian McCulloch,[103] but reached the last 16 of the Welsh Open with three 4–3 victories (defeating Lucky Vatnani, Ricky Walden and Allister Carter) before losing 0–4 to Shaun Murphy. Johnson reduced Davis's lead to 14–13, but Davis took four of the next five frames to win the match 18–14 and regain the title. TV viewing figures were healthy and Riley Leisure, who had 51 clubs open in the UK at the time, posted a profit of £1.4m for the 17 months up to December 1982. Known for dominating the sport during the 1980s, when he won the World Championship six times and was ranked world number one for seven consecutive seasons, he is remembered particularly for contesting the 1985 World Championship final with Dennis Taylor, the black-ball conclusion of … [148] Strickland won the match, and proceeded to the semi-finals. [104][105] Davis did not qualify for the China Open or the World Snooker Championship, losing 1–5 to Rory McLeod and 7–10 to Ben Woollaston. His match against Dennis Taylor in the 1985 World Championship finals can be considered the most memorable match in his career. More Steve Davis Photos…, How Steve Davis won his second World Snooker Championship in 1983, Snooker was still very much on the ascendancy as the 1983 World Championships approached. At the end of 1986, he defeated Neal Foulds 16–7 to retain the 1986 UK Championship. During the 1987–88 season, he became the first player to win all three Triple Crown events in a single season, a feat that only two other players (Hendry and Mark Williams) have since emulated. Pot black: Steve Davis is a legend in the world of snooker … Davis is also a former World Doubles champion with Tony Meo and won the World Cup four times with England. With the scores close, Taylor potted the final colours to leave the black ball. He made a record 30th and final appearance at the Crucible in 2010, aged 52, where he defeated the defending world champion John Higgins to become the oldest world quarter-finalist since Eddie Charlton in 1983. [13], Davis was denied an eighth consecutive appearance in the 1990 World Snooker Championship final by Jimmy White, who won their semi-final 16–14. [134] He won his first World Seniors Championship by defeating Nigel Bond, 2–1. The player who potted the ball would win the championship; after a series of safety shots and attempts to pot it, Davis over-cut the black and left Taylor with a reasonably-straightforward pot to secure the championship. His career total of 28 ranking titles places him fourth on the all-time list behind O'Sullivan (37), Hendry (36), and John Higgins (31). [116] He qualified for the final stages of the 2012 UK Championship, defeating Advani 6–5 and Jamie Burnett 6–2,[117] before losing 2–6 to Ali Carter. Steve Davis says he rarely picks up a snooker cue these days, and does not watch a lot of the sport. [147], He reached the last 16 of the 2003 WPA World Nine-ball Championship in Cardiff, Wales, where he faced three-time champion Strickland. He won the Classic and the Asian Open in 1992, the European Open in 1993, and consecutive Welsh Open titles in 1994 and 1995. In case with inlay and instructions. [157] Davis co-authored Steve Davis Plays Chess, a 1995 book. [34] After those two defeats, he won the World Doubles Championship with partner Tony Meo. [3] He represented Europe in the tournament eleven times, and was a member of the victorious 1995 and 2002 teams;[142] his victory against the US's Earl Strickland clinched the 2002 competition for Europe. [42] Davis trailed Willie Thorne 8–13 in the 1985 UK Championship final. Cannon and Ball's sketch with snooker champion Steve Davis and an invisible table The tournament was known as Northern Ireland Classic (1981/1982). [38] He beat defending champion Stephen Maguire 9–8 with a 145 break, and Stephen Hendry 9–6 in the semi-finals before he lost 6–10 to Ding Junhui. [119] He again participated in the Players Tour Championship; his best results were in the Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy and the Scottish Open, where he reached the last 16 before losing 3–4 to John Higgins and 1–4 to Ding Junhui. [110] Davis participated in the Six-red World Championship, where he finished third in Group E (with three wins in five matches) and advanced to the knock-out stage[111] before losing 1–6 to Mark Davis in the last 32. [56][63] Davis was runner-up in the 2004 Welsh Open to O'Sullivan, losing 8–9 after leading 8–5. in 2013, finishing in eighth place. [186] Davis has presented a show dedicated to progressive rock and the Canterbury scene since 1996 on Phoenix FM, his local radio station. Interesting! Works on 48k and upwards. [156], A keen chess player, he is a former president of the British Chess Federation. Spouse (1) Davis entered the Crucible Theatre holding the World Championship trophy, and received a standing ovation from the audience. [66][67] Davis brushed off suggestions of retirement before the World Championships,[68] and reached the second round (where he lost to Murphy). Info. buckowski Full Back. He was previously married to Judith Greig. I will still do exhibitions and enjoy snooker and be part of it. The event was also called the Hong Kong Masters (1983/1984–1988/1989), The event was also called the Kent Cup (1986/1987–1987/1988 and 1989/1990–1990/1991), The event ran under a different name as the Charity Challenge (1994/1995–1998/1999), The event was also called the Professional Snooker League (1983/1984), Matchroom League (1986/1987 to 1991/1992) and the European League (1992/1993 to 1996/1997), Final decided on an aggregate score over three frames, Final was decided on a three-man round robin basis, the third person was, ninth-greatest sporting moment of all time, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, "An email conversation with Steve Davis: 'Snooker has real strength in depth. He even reached the final table of Pokermillion in 2002… (read more), Recent forum searches: Steve Davis Girlfriend, Steve Davis Wife, Steve Davis Twitter, Steve Davis 147, Steve Davis Wiki, Steve Davis Snooker Cue, Steve Davis Snooker Table, Steve Davis Dad, Steve Davis Book, Steve Davis Website, Steve Davis Signed Photo, Steve Davis Memorabilia, Steve Davis Framed Picture, Hosted on Wikipedia – Credit: DerHexer He has won six world titles and was the world’s top ranked snooker player from 1983 to 1990. Professional: 1978-2014 Highest ranking: 1 Steve Davis was probably the first true professional snooker player in the modern meaning of "professional". 12:43 [59] His last victory in a major tournament was at the 1997 Masters. Steve Davis was born on August 22, 1957 in Plumstead, London, England. He dominated the sport during the 1980s, when he reached eight World Snooker Championship finals in nine years, won six world titles, and held the world number one ranking for seven consecutive seasons. Reactions: Metro Man. The event ran under different names such as International Open (1981/1982 to 1984/1985, 1986/1987 to 1996/1997), Matchroom Trophy (1985/1986) and Players Championship (2003/2004). He said: “I …, Local snooker player beats Steve Davis, a year after slaying Mark Selby, Published: [140] Davis entered the 2016 World Championship qualifiers, and lost to Fergal O'Brien in his final professional match. [72][73] In the next tournament, the 2009 UK Championship, he defeated Michael Judge 9–7 to set up a first-round match against Hendry[74] (which he lost 6–9). [54] By the end of the 1980s, Davis was snooker's first millionaire. [47] Meeting Johnson again in the final, he established a 14–10 lead after three sessions. The BBC Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images @Simon_Burnton. [180] He branched out into club work in 2015, and has regular slots at London bars and nightclubs. Trouvez les Steve Davis Snooker images et les photos d’actualités parfaites sur Getty Images. [155] At event 22 of the 2011 Grand Poker Series, Davis finished eighth and won $2,049. In April 2016, aged 58, he announced his retirement from the professional tour after 38 seasons, although he remains active as a commentator and analyst for the BBC's snooker coverage. [141] He continues to play exhibitions, and is a commentator for the BBC's snooker coverage. [30] In doing so, Davis won a Lada car,[31] but lost 8–9 to Griffiths in the final. Snooker great Steve Davis has announced his retirement at the age of 58. Do not have a ranking among nine to … for his coolness and conduct high-pressure! 26 on the Main tour do not have a ranking event the 2010/2011 season it shows ranking... 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