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Norwich Union Open

snooker tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ4045486 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Norwich Union Open was a professional invitational snooker tournament. The winner of both editions was John Spencer.

History

The Norwich Union Open was a tournament open to both professionals and amateurs and featured 24 players in its first season. In the second year it featured just 16 players, but the prize money was increased. Both editions of the tournament were held at the Piccadilly Hotel in London.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 68-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973. For this dossier, Norwich, Union and snooker is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Norwich Union Open” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.