The 1982 Embassy World Snooker Championship changed into a expert snooker match that

occurred among 30 April and 16 May 1982 on the Crucible Theatre, in Sheffield, England. It
changed into the only occasion of the 1981–eighty two snooker season that carried world rating
points. Embassy, a British cigarette business enterprise, backed the event, and the World
Professional Billiards and Snooker Association governed the company of the occasion. It had a
prize fund of £a hundred and ten,000, with the winner receiving £25,000. The defending
champion, Steve Davis (pictured), had defeated Doug Mountjoy with a score of 18–12 in the
previous year's final. In 1982, Davis became the bookmaker's preferred to win the match,
however he misplaced 1–10 to Tony Knowles inside the first spherical. Alex Higgins won his 2d
global identify by way of defeating Ray Reardon 18–15 within the very last. Ten century breaks
have been made in the course of the tournament, the best of which changed into a 143 scored
through Willie Thorne.