1995 World Snooker Championship

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.

[2][4][5][6] Highest break by Hendry: 124 Highest break by Bond: 111 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.