1995 World Snooker Championship

Embassy World Snooker Championship

Tournament information
Dates	14–30 April 1995 (1995-04-14 – 1995-04-30)
Venue	Crucible Theatre
City	Sheffield
Country	England
Organisation	WPBSA
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	£1,132,000
Winner's share	£190,000
Highest break	Stephen Hendry (SCO) (147)
Final
Champion	Stephen Hendry (SCO)
Runner-up	Nigel Bond (ENG)
Score	18–9
← 1994 1996 →

The 1995 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 1995 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 30 April 1995 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Embassy.

• Stephen Hendry won his fifth world title beating Nigel Bond 18–9. This was Hendry's fourth consecutive title, breaking Steve Davis' previous Crucible record of three.
• Hendry made the third 147 maximum break in the history of the tournament during his semi-final against Jimmy White.
• Before the first round match between Jimmy White and Peter Francisco, there were unusual gambling patterns on a 10–2 win for White and betting was suspended shortly before the match. A betting investigation was held and Francisco was banned for five years.^[1]
• Future world champion John Higgins made his debut in this tournament. He lost in the first round to Alan McManus. Another debutant, Andy Hicks, reached the semi-finals, knocking out six time former champion (and #2 seed) Steve Davis en route.
• Until 2020 this was the last World Championship to start on a Friday and finish on a Sunday, rather than starting on a Saturday and finishing on the "May Day" Bank Holiday, the first Monday in May, as is tradition.

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:^[2][3]

• Winner: £190,000
• Runner-up: £115,000
• Semi-final: £57,000
• Quarter-final: £29,000
• Last 16: £15,500
• Last 32: £8,750
• Highest break: £16,000
• Maximum break: £147,000
• Total: £1,132,000

Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks (each championship has 16 seeds and 16 qualifiers).^[2][4][5][6]

Final (Best of 35 frames) Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 29 & 30 April 1995. Referee: John Street[7]
Stephen Hendry (1)  Scotland	18–9	Nigel Bond (11)  England
68–20, 42–87, 29–74, 0–81, 72–8, 4–76, 105–0, 77–7, 1–85, 65–32, 90–1, 70–31, 74–13, 124–1, 70–25, 84–0, 75–9, 115–9, 74–41, 14–63, 59–73, 44–67, 76–19, 83–0, 92–36, 0–135, 103–28	Century breaks: 4 (Hendry 3, Bond 1) Highest break by Hendry: 124 Highest break by Bond: 111	68–20, 42–87, 29–74, 0–81, 72–8, 4–76, 105–0, 77–7, 1–85, 65–32, 90–1, 70–31, 74–13, 124–1, 70–25, 84–0, 75–9, 115–9, 74–41, 14–63, 59–73, 44–67, 76–19, 83–0, 92–36, 0–135, 103–28
Stephen Hendry wins the 1995 Embassy World Snooker Championship

There were 30 centuries in the 1995 Embassy World Championship.^[2][8][9] Stephen Hendry made the third maximum break in the championship's history and became the first to go on to win the title after making a 147 break.^[10] Hendry's 12 centuries in the tournament beat the record of 10 set by Joe Davis in 1946 and equalled his own record for a ranking event, set at the 1994 UK Championship.^[11]