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Billiards World Rankings
The billiards world rankings are the official system of ranking English billiards players to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments The ranking are maintained by the sport's governing body, World Billiards World Billiards (Limited) was founded in November 2011 as a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association (WPBSA). It includes former members of EBOS (English-Billiards Open Series) and WPBSA, and is the governing body for ..., a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. A player's ranking is based on their performances in designated ranking tournaments over two years, with a season that begins on 1 September, and ends on 31 August of the following year. As of 2012, the distinction between professional and amateur players was removed. Both male and female players are included on the list. Top Ranked Players Notes : Gilchrist and Hall were joint 3rd ranked. References External links W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Billiards
English billiards, called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pool. Two (one white and one yellow) and a red are used. Each player or team uses a different cue ball. It is played on a billiards table with the same dimensions as one used for snooker and points are scored for and pocketing the balls. History English billiards originated in England, and was originally called the ''winning and losing carambole game'', folding in the names of three predecessor games, ''the winning game'', ''the losing game'', and an early form of carom billiards that combined to form it. The winning game was played with two white balls, and was a 12- contest. To start, the player who could strike a ball at one end of the table and get the ball to come to rest nearest the opposite cushion without lying against it earned the right to shoot for points first. This is the origin of the modern custom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Billiards
World Billiards (Limited) was founded in November 2011 as a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association (WPBSA). It includes former members of EBOS (English-Billiards Open Series) and WPBSA, and is the governing body for English billiards. As of 2012, the distinction between professional and amateur players was removed and the WPBSA World Professional Billiards Championship became simply the World Billiards Championship. Tournaments are now held in modern short multiple game format, long single game format and the more traditional timed format. Promotional activities Since 2012 World Billiards has organised the World Billiards Championship (English billiards) plus up to 20 other world ranking tournaments per year. Apart from the World Championship, other major ranking tournaments include the American Cup in Canada, the European Open, the Pacific International in Australia and the Asian Grand Prix in Singapore. World Billiards Championships See als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Professional Billiards And Snooker Association
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) is the governing body of professional snooker and English billiards based in Bristol, England. It owns and publishes the official rules of the two sports and engages in promotional activities. The Professional Billiard Players Association (PBPA) was founded in 1946, and, after some years of inactivity, was revived in 1968 and renamed the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association in 1970. It owns a 26 per cent share of World Snooker, which organises the professional snooker ranking circuit events. It also supports World Women's Snooker and World Disability Billiards and Snooker, and English billiards through World Billiards. Overview According to its financial statements for the year ending 30 June 2019, the principal activities of the WPBSA are "the governance of professional snooker and billiards through the regulation and application of the rules of the association, the development of snooker and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gilchrist Leaves Malaysian Opponent Hassan Mohd Reza In His Chair For Most Of His 502-81 Win In English Billiards -seagames2015 -teamsingapore (18498230786)
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Mike Russell (billiards Player)
Mike Russell (born 3 June 1969 in Middlesbrough, England), is a twelve-time WPBSA World Champion in the game of English billiards. He also has six IBSF World Billiards Championship titles standing to his name. He has been described as an "archrival" of India's prodigy, Geet Sethi, an eight-time World Champion, and each of them had defeated the other for the title, with Russell victorious in 1996, and Sethi the winner in 1998, as of their next encounter at the 2007 event. Both scored two apiece, but Russell knocked Sethi out in the semi-finals, 1835–1231, (65.5 vs. 45.6 average). Russell went on to win the title for the ninth time and a £6,000 prize, solidly beating Chris Shutt, 2166–1710 (52.8 vs. 42.8 avg.), with four double ''and'' four triple centuries to Shutt's four and none, respectively. At the IBSF World Billiards Championships 2010, Russell not only claimed the 150up- and time-format title, recorded a break of 1137 points in the time-format final. Even though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Dagley
Norman Dagley (1930 – 15 January 1999) was an English world champion player of English billiards. He won both the world amateur and world professional titles twice. Early Career and English Amateur Championship Titles Dagley learned to play billiards from two brothers who were good amateur players, Reg and Jack Wright, in his home village of Earl Shilton. He served in the Korean War whilst on National Service, and once spent a night in a group on a dinghy after the American transport plane that they were on had to ditch. He said that this experience of not knowing what the dawn would bring gave him a perspective on the game: "After that, you don't get worked up over a game of billiards." He was runner-up in the English Amateur Billiards championship in 1963, and from 1964 won the title fifteen times in twenty-one attempts, never again losing in the final. He set many records, including a world and English championship record break of 862 and session average of 116.6 in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Williamson (snooker Player)
Ian Williamson (born 1 December 1958) is an English former professional snooker and English billiards player. Biography Ian Williamson was born on 1 December 1958. His father was Jim Williamson, founding proprietor of the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds. Williamson was runner up in the English Under 19 English billiards Championships in 1975 and 1976. He lost the 1975 final to Eugene Hughes and the 1976 final to Steve Davis. In 1976, he beat Davis in the semi-final of the Under-19 Snooker championship before losing to him later the same day in the billiards final. Williamson won the Under-19 billiards title in 1977 and 1978, beating John Barnes in the final both years. He was also a semi-finalist in the 1978 English Amateur Championship, beaten 8-4 by Joe Johnson His application to become a professional snooker player in 1980 was refused, along with that of Eugene Hughes, whilst Tony Knowles was the only one of three applicants at the time to be accepted. The following yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gilchrist (billiards Player)
Peter Gilchrist (born 1968 in Middlesbrough) is an English-born Singaporean English billiards player. He won the World Billiards Championship (English billiards) in 1994, 2001, and 2013 (long format), and 2019. Career Peter Gilchrist played in Teesside Boys Billiards League as a youth. he was the English Amateur Champion in 1988. He won the World Billiards Championship (English billiards) in 1994, 2001, 2013 (long format) and 2019. He has won International Billiards and Snooker Federation world titles in 2015 (short format), 2016 and 2019 (long up). In 2003, he moved to Singapore to become the national billiards and snooker coach, and in 2006 he became a Singaporean citizen under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme. He renounced his British citizenship at the same time. Gilchrist represented Singapore in the SEA Games in 2009, where he won Gold for English Billiards Singles, and Bronze for the doubles. Gilchrist set the world record for highest break in billiards (1346) under mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geet Sethi
Geet Siriram Sethi (born 17 April 1961) of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s. He is also a notable amateur (ex-pro) snooker player. He is a five-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur world championships, and holder of two world records, in English billiards. Along with Prakash Padukone, Sethi has co-founded Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation for the promotion of sports in India. Career Born in Delhi and grew up in Ahmedabad, Sethi won his first major English billiards event in 1982, the Indian National Billiards Championship (an international event despite its name), defeating Michael Ferreira, and went on to win the NBC again four years in a row, 1985–1988, and made a comeback in both 1997 and 1998 to reclaim the title. He rose to international prominence by winning the IBSF World Amateur Billiards Championships in 1985, versus Bob Marshall in an eight-hour-lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robby Foldvari
Robby Foldvari (born 2 June 1960) is an Australian player of snooker, English billiards and pool. He is a multi-year World Billiards Champion (1986, 1997, 1998), and a national-level champion in both snooker (2006, 2008) and nine-ball pool (2012), as well as a World Games competitor (2013). Outside of competition, he is a coach and television commentator. Foldvari won the Australian Open 8 Ball Pool Championship (2015) (Oceania Pocket Billiard Federation) completing the Royal Flush of National titles in every cuesports discipline. In June 2016 he won the Australian Open 10 ball Pool Championship Career He started his professional career in 1984, and became the World Billiards Champion in 1986. He won the World Matchplay Billiards Championship in 1997, and IBSF World Billiards Championship in 1998. In 1991 he became the first non-British player to win the UK Billiards Championship, and won it again in 1992. Foldvari captained the Australian World Cup Snooker Team to the qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Causier
David Causier (born 1973) is an English world champion player of English billiards. Biography Causier won the English Amateur Billiards title in 1992, 1993, and 1995; and the UK Championship in 2000 and 2001 (following which no UK championship was held from 2002 to 2014). In 2012, the IBSF World Billiards Championship was merged with the former professional championship under the name World Billiards Championship, and tournaments were held in both points and timed format. Causier won the 2013 150-up ("short format") title, and was runner-up in the timed ("long") format. He went on to win the 2015, 2016, 2017 short titles and the long format titles in 2015 and 2017. Causier won four trophies in the 2018/19 season, despite not playing in all of the circuit's events, including winning the UK Open and the World Matchplay title. His job was managing The Normanby pub in Middlesbrough from about 2011 to 2018, and he only played billiards part-time. World Championship Finals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Shutt
Chris Shutt is an English champion player of English billiards. He won the World Professional Billiards Championship in 2005. Biography Shutt started playing billiards as a child, after he broke his leg whilst playing football. He found he had an aptitude for billiards, and won a number of junior tournaments. At the age of 18, he turned professional, although still working as a car salesperson in Northallerton. At the age of 14, he won silver in the 800 metres at the national junior athletics championships. He won the English Under-16 billiards title in 1993, the under 19 title in 1995 and 1996, and the English Amateur Championship in 1996, having been runner-up in 1995. His 1996 victory, at the age of 18, made him the youngest winner of the English Amateur Championship, which had been running since 1888, and he turned professional directly after the win. The 2000 International Billiards and Snooker Federation World Open Championship was played on a "50-up" basis, with player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
