Davis close to defeat
NZPA-AFP Blackpool Steve Davis, the world’s leading snooker player, came within one ball, of being knocked out of the £250,000 ($NZ702,500) Mercantile Credit Classic at Blackpool this week. A fellow Englishman, John Parrott, needed only to pot the brown to clinch a quar-ter-final victory over the three-times former world champion, after rallying from 0-43 behind to lead 61-43 in the deciding frame. However, he missed and left it to Davis, who also took blue, pink, and black to set up a semi-final meeting with Stephen Hendry, aged 17, of Scotland, having been 0-3 and 2-4 behind earlier in the match.
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Press, 10 January 1987, Page 20
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