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2006 IBSF World Snooker Championship
The 2006 IBSF World Snooker Championship was an amateur snooker event, sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation, held at the Amman Olympics Sports Centre in Amman, Jordan from November 5-November 15, 2006. Results Men A total of 32 players qualified for finishing in the top 4 positions in eight groups. They were drawn into a 32 player knock-out bracket to decide the winner. Women Source: Snooker Scene Reanne Evans, the 2004 champion, did not enter the event. There were twenty entries, and two qualifying groups of ten players were set, each to be played as a round-robin, with the top four from each group qualifying for the eight-player knock-out phase to decide the winner. Following withdrawals, only nine players participated in each group. Wendy Jans scored nine of the eleven top in the competition on her way to winning the title. References External linksOfficial event website {{DEFAULTSORT:IBSF World Snooker Championship, 2006 IBSF World Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBSF World Snooker Championship
The IBSF World Snooker Championship (also known as the World Amateur Snooker Championship) is the premier non-professional snooker tournament in the world. The event series is sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation. A number of IBSF champions have gone on to successful careers in the Pro ranks, notably Jimmy White (1980), James Wattana (1988), Ken Doherty (1989), Stuart Bingham (1996), Marco Fu (1997), Stephen Maguire (2000) and Mark Allen (2004). Both Ken Doherty (in 1997) and Stuart Bingham (in 2015) have gone on to win the professional World Snooker Championship . History The IBSF World Snooker Championship tournament was first held in 1963. In the first two tournaments, the title was decided alone on group stages. From 1968 until now, the group stage was followed by a knock-out stage. The tournament has been held annually since 1984. However, 2005 IBSF World Snooker Championship was cancelled, due to an earthquake in Pakistan where the event was due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Mifsud
Steve Mifsud (born 25 August 1972 in Australia) is a Maltese Australian professional snooker player. Career He was a winner of the IBSF World Amateur Championship in Cairo, Egypt in 2002, beating Tim English 11–6 in the final which enabled him to get on the main tour for the 2003–04 season, although he later dropped off. He was runner-up to Mark Allen in the same event two years later. He got back onto the main tour for the 2007–08 season by finishing top of the Australian rankings. Again he dropped off immediately, winning just one match in the six knockout tournaments. Steve was Neil Robertson's partner in the 2011 World Cup where he helped Australia reach the quarter-finals. He, along with his brother James, was given a wildcard for Australian Open, where he lost 2–5 to Dominic Dale. In 2014 Mifsud won the Oceania Snooker Championship, regaining his Main Tour place for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. He only competed in one event, losing 4–0 to Thailand' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Yuan (snooker Player)
Li Yuan (, born 20 October 1989) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. Career Li had previously appeared as a wildcard at several ranking tournaments, such as the 2008 China Open where he pushed Marco Fu to a deciding frame, narrowly losing 5–4. The following season he appeared at the 2008 Shanghai Masters where he lost 5–1 to Andy Hicks. He then played in several Asian Tour Events, reaching the last 16 on two occasions, before appearing at the 2017 China Open wildcard round where he was defeated by 5-1 by Jimmy White James Warren White (born 2 May 1962) is an English professional snooker player who has won three seniors World titles. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his fluid, attacking style of play, White is the 1980 World Amateur Champion, 2009 .... Li turned professional in 2017, after being nominated as one of the two players from the CBSA China Snooker Tour. Performance and rankings timeline ;Notes Career finals Amateur finals: 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan O'Donoghue
Brendan O'Donoghue (born 15 December 1982 in Nenagh, Tipperary) is an Irish former professional snooker player. Career O'Donoghue became the Irish nominee for 2009–10 season after he topped the Irish national standings by defeating John Torpey in the quarter-finals of the Irish Amateur Championship. Going into the competition Mario Fernandez was the only player who could take his tour spot away, but he lost to TJ Dowling in the quarters, which gave O'Donoghue's lead unassailable, despite Martin McCrudden winning the tournament. However O'Donoghue joined the main tour at a time when there was only six rankings events during the season A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperate and pol ... and failed to make an impact on the main tour due to his full-time job, which restricted h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supoj Saenla
Supoj Saenla (born August 15, 1980) is a former Thai professional snooker player who lives in Chiang Mai. Career Saenla joined the professional tour for the first time in 2003 by winning the 2001 Asian U-21 Championship. He was relegated after the 2004/05 season. In 2007, he earned his place back by winning the 2007 Asian Championship. He beat India's Yasin Merchant Yasin Merchant, born 17 December 1966 is India's second professional snooker player. The late Omprakesh Agrawal was the first. Merchant won the National Snooker championships on 3 occasions, in 2001, 2000 and 1991He was honoured by ... 7–0 in the final of that tournament. Saenla finished the 2008/09 season 82nd in the world rankings, and lost his place on the main tour for the second time. Career finals Pro-am finals: 2 (1 title) Amateur finals: 5 (4 titles) References External links * Profile at prosnookerblog.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Saenla, Supoj 1980 births Living people Supoj Saenla Asian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Williams (snooker Player)
Philip Williams (born 3 June 1967) is a Welsh former professional snooker player. He was a professional for most seasons between 1993–94 and 2003–04, but failed to establish himself, his highest ranking position being 104. His best performances both came in 2001, when he reached the last 64 of both the Benson & Hedges Championship and the British Open. As an amateur, he won the Welsh Championship in 2006. He then reached the quarter-final at the amateur 2006 IBSF World Snooker Championship in Amman, Jordan, where he was eliminated by Kurt Maflin 6–3. In the 2008 IBSF World Snooker Championship he was beaten by Alok Kumar. In the 2009 IBSF World Snooker Championship he was eliminated in the semi-finals by Alfie Burden of England. In 2010 he won the IBSF World Masters Championship in Damascus, Syria, beating Thailand's Chuchart Trairattanapradit 6 – 4. He is mentioned in a book on Welsh snooker players written by Andrew Pagett. In 2013 he was a surprise qualifier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Mifsud
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Martin O'Donnell (snooker Player)
Martin O'Donnell (born 4 June 1986) is an English former professional snooker player. He gained a two-year place on the main snooker tour by coming through Q School in 2012. He practices at Shootpool & Snooker in Aylesbury. Career Early career As an amateur, O'Donnell played in all 12 of the Players Tour Championship events during the 2010/2011 season. He reached the second round on three occasions, but could not progress any further, however, in Event 3 he defeated former world champion, Shaun Murphy 4–3. O'Donnell finished 109th on the Order of Merit. He entered Q School at the end of the season in an attempt to turn professional and in the final event he was one match away from achieving this. He played Kurt Maflin and lost 1–4. In the 2011/2012 season, O'Donnell was again confined to entering the PTC events, playing 9 of the 12. He reached the main draw on six occasions but failed to win a match once there. He won the SnookerBacker Classic, which guaranteed him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasse Munstermann
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Kurt Maflin
Kurt Graham Maflin (born 8 August 1983) is an English-Norwegian former professional snooker player. A strong break-builder, Maflin has compiled more than 200 century breaks during his career and has made two 147 breaks in professional competition. Career Early career Maflin began playing snooker at the age of four, achieving a high break of 25 by the time he was five. He increased his time spent at the table practising. As a rated top junior player, Maflin represented England in the 1999 Home International series in Prestatyn, North Wales, where England were victorious. After appearing in the Finals of the English National Championships in the Under-13 and Under-15 categories, he went on to become the first person to retain the English Under-17 national title (once held by Paul Hunter) in 2000 after winning it for the first time in 1999. When aged 14, Maflin was invited, on behalf of ''TV Times'' magazine, to team up with former World Champion Dennis Taylor to raise money for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phaitoon Phonbun
Phaitoon Phonbun (; born 5 October 1975) is a Thai former professional snooker player. Career Phonbun was born in 1975, and began playing snooker at competitive level as a wildcard entry in the 1995 Thailand Open, where he also recorded his first win, a 5–2 defeat of Anthony Davies. He exited the tournament in the next round, 1–5 to the six-time World Champion Steve Davis. Turning professional in 1998, Phonbun reached the last 48 at that season's China International, recording victories over Joe Delaney, Jason Prince and Darryn Walker before losing 2–5 to Chris Small, and the last 64 at the Welsh Open, where Alain Robidoux defeated him 5–4. The following season heralded two more last-64 finishes, the most notable being at the 1999 UK Championship, where Phonbun faced Paul Hunter and lost 6–9. In his match against Stephen Maguire at the 2000 Scottish Open, Phonbun beat Maguire 5–4 despite the latter having compiled a maximum 147 break. Ranked 70th, a career best, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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