Tony Knowles 1983 Embassy World Championship Second Round
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- 1983 World Championship Second Round (last 16)
Tony Knowles v Ray Reardon
This footage captures the exciting conclusion of a classic match up of youth and experience between Tony Knowles and Ray Reardon in the second round of the 1983 World Championship. Both men were amongst the favourites for that years title having won the preceding two ranking tournaments and their highly anticipated encounter did not disappoint.
Fondly remembered as snookers very own Casanova from the games heyday in the 1980's, Tony Knowles was also one of the most fluent and stylish players of his era as this collection of archive footage highlights. If you have any Knowelsy footage or memorabilia to trade or even if you'd just like to share your very own TK memories then please get in touch.
Reardon was giving Knowles over 25 years here. What a truly great player Reardon was. Him and Hendry the greatest under pressure I've ever seen.
Grew up with this stuff, would rather watch you tube classic matches all day than 5 mins of today's automatons
Feel the same, a robot production line of NPCs today.
I still remember how devastated I was when Ray lost this one...and that was 31 years ago..
Me too. .Think i remember Ray hitting 3 tons in a row in this match.....
Me too man. Was gutted. He was my snooker hero when I was a kid.
Christ, Reardon had tonnes of bottle. What a great player.
For tactical know-how and temperament, Ray was the best ever. I always loved to watch him play. He also talks the most sense about the game and I surprised he has never commentated for the BBC.
i remember watching this final session on TV (Reardon was my favourite player from this era) - It was very high quality - In the deciding frame Knowles potted a brilliant log red from Reardon's break off shot and went on to make a big break which in effect won him the match - I was gutted when he was knocked out so early in the tournament because he had had a very good season
Would love to get hold of more of this match. It was a rare one where Reardon scored heavier but still ended up losing and also a rare battling performance from Knowles to get over the winning line.
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Can' t help you there I'm afraid - we didn't have a video recorder in our house when I was a kid - its scary to think its nearly 40 years ago !!!- As I said in my first post Reardon was my fave player and though he was past his peak by then he was still a formidable player in the 80's before age and eyesight caught up with him - As regards Knowles - he was a very good player who probably didn't fulfill his potential - he should have achieved more with his talent than he did
That about sums it up for TK and agree re Reardon too. He was the player of the season coming into that years World Champs and favoured by many to bag the title. Who knows what mighta happened if he'd beaten Knowles but the same could be said for Tony if he'd beaten Thorburn in the semis. Hard to imagine either of them would have gotten the better of Davis in that years final though.
What a match!
A great clip , Ray shows his class in fighting to hang on after the terrible bad luck.
Never saw the match but I think he had 2 centuries, and likely played very well. Tony must have been too good on the day.
great match! Great play from both!
Ray played probably better in '83 than the previous year when he reached the final. Knowles was in great form tho and should really have made the final.
you can see why the miss rule was introduced at 5.22, reardon misses getting out of snooker and knowles left with a tricky shot
Love Ray...but I think he laugh s and makes jokes I think to hide the pressure as been watching alot recently and when the other player is flying he keep laughing and smiling lol...more players need that today I think...never seen Ray serious lol ..God bless the laughter ❤
Ah the days of the deliberate miss
6:17. Reardon only just short of the perfect snooker and unfortunate for the brown not to go behind the pink and not leave a shot, but what a match winner from Knowles, considering that to miss would've left the balls spinning randomly around the table!
See how much the pink rolled off, you wouldn’t see than on a modern table. Too me it looked much closer to the pocket than it ended up. 8:23
I remember you boozing in el rincon,and I remember having that boozer at the bottom of bridge street. Take care anyway pal
4:21. That shot could've only left the balls as they finished, but to have played off one cushion would've left the balls with more chance of going safe and without leaving such an easy snooker!
Not much character with knowles .he dident even acknowledge reardons great escape from the snooker.
Too cool for school was Tony.
What you talking about Ian ? Knowles was always a Gentleman back then I’d love to see all of this match heard it was a classic
Why didnt he screw back for the brown
Knowles lost in decider to cliff after he fluked the brown.
Knowles missed a straight forward pink at 15/13 that did for him. only black remained on the table
Thorburn ruined 83 WC coz he beat Kirk with last 3 frames.. .and Tony in semi,and got hammered by Davis... Knowlesy would of been a better final.. .after beating the nugget 10-1 in 82.... best result ever in Snooker!
That only happened cause Davis was run down and sick. Hearn ran him into the ground.
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@@johnmc3862How the f*** do you know that? What a load of bollocks!… 🤔🥱
Poor Ray. The modern game just overtook him.