 Complete the following phrase:  In his first professional match, in the qualifying competition for the 1978 UK Championship, Griffiths lost 89 to Rex Williams after leading 82. Williams took a 21 lead, before Griffiths won the next seven frames, and Williams took the following seven. In the , Griffiths rushed when potting the and went , a shot. Williams later potted the pink to secure victory. After qualifying for the 1979 World Championship, by eliminating Bernard Bennett 92 from 02 behind and Jim Meadowcroft 96 from 66, Griffiths defeated the previous years runner-up Perrie Mans 138 in the first round and Alex Higgins 1312 in the quarter-finals. After beating Eddie Charlton 1917 in a long semi-final that finished at 1:40 am, Griffiths told interviewer David Vine Im in the final now, you know. In the final, he faced Dennis Taylor, who, having been a professional since 1973, was also playing in his first world championship final. The match was close for the first four of the six , and the match was level at 1515 before Griffiths took a 1716 lead and went on to win 2416, becoming world champion at the first attempt, in only his second tournament as a professional. He was only the second player to win the championship after playing in qualifying, after Higgins in 1972, and the first to win it at the Crucuble as a qualifier. The only other player to achieve this, as at 2021, was Shaun Murphy in 