Phoenix FM’s Steve Davis has announced his retirement from snooker on Sunday at the age of 58, following a 38-year playing career.
Steve, who has won the World Championship six times, failed to qualify for this year’s world championship, currently taking place in Sheffield.
He collected 28 ranking titles, joint second on the all-time list behind Scotland’s Stephen Hendry, and made a surprise run to the world championship quarter-finals in 2010 at the age of 52.
Steve also played in the most memorable world championship final, losing 18-17 to Dennis Taylor on the final black in 1985, and he compiled the first televised maximum 147 break in 1982.
Steve said, “It has been fantastic. The game will move on to other places but I feel like the grandfather of the sport.”
Everyone at Phoenix FM would like to wish Steve all the best and we expect to see him back in the office on Monday morning …
