The Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
STEVE DAVIS , three times world champion, and TONY KNOWLES , beaten semi-finalist in 1983, complete their first-round matches this evening. Tony Knowles has not reached peak form this season, and No 1 seed Steve Davis was recently knocked out of the Masters
Tournament by Alex Higgins. DAVID VINE introduces live coverage, with the latest news of this afternoon's matches involving
DAVID TAYLOR (seeded 16) and DOUG MOUNTJOY (15).