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David Grace (snooker Player)
David Grace (born 5 May 1985) is an English professional snooker player and painter. After being a successful junior and amateur player, notably winning the English Amateur Championship in 2005 and 2008, he became a professional in 2008, gaining his place by winning the 2008 European Snooker Championships, where he beat Craig Steadman in the final. In 2009, Grace took part in the men's singles snooker competition at the World Games in Kaohsiung, finishing as the runner-up in this event, winning the silver medal. He entered the 2015 UK Championship as the world number 81, but progressed through to his first ranking event semi-final which he lost 6–4 to Liang Wenbo. Grace fell off the tour in 2018, but regained his place on the tour in 2019 after finishing in the top two on the 2018–19 Challenge Tour ranking list. This earned him a two-year card for the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 seasons. Career 2011/2012 season As a new player on the tour Grace would need to win four qualifying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by population) in England, after London and Birmingham. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production centre, including of carbonated water where it was invented in the 1760s, and trading centre (mainly with wool) for the 17th and 18th centuries. It was a major mill town during the Industrial Revolution. It was also known for its flax industry, iron foundries, engineering and printing, as well as shopping, with several surviving Victorian era arcades, such as Kirkgate Market. City status was awarded in 1893, a populous urban centre formed in the following century which absorbed surrounding villages and overtook the nearby York population. It is locate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Pinches
Barry Pinches (born 13 July 1970 in Catton, Norwich) is an English professional snooker player, recognisable for his bright and flamboyant waistcoats, which usually feature the yellow and green colours of Norwich City F.C. He is a former top 32 player and ranking-event quarter-finalist. He has compiled over 100 century breaks in his career, becoming the 33rd player to have done so. He has also made one maximum break. Career Pinches won the English Amateur Championship in 1988, enabling him to turn professional in 1989. He is coached by Stephen Feeney. After a largely unsuccessful start to his career, he hit good form for a while in the 2000s. He defeated Jimmy White 10–8 in the 2004 World Championship, in a match which overran and had to be completed after other matches, then led Stephen Hendry 11–9 before losing 12–13 and has lost in the first round twice more – the 13-year gap between his first two Crucible appearances (1991–2004) is an all-time record. In his fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Six-red World champion, 3 time World Seniors Champion ( 2010, 2019, 2020), 2019 Seniors 6-Red World Champion and 1984 World Doubles champion with Alex Higgins. White has won two of snooker's three majors: the UK Championship (in 1992) and the Masters (in 1984) and a total of ten ranking events. He is currently tenth on the all-time list of ranking event winners. He reached six World Championship finals but never won the event; the closest he came was in 1994 when he lost in a final frame decider against Stephen Hendry. He spent 21 seasons ranked in snooker's elite top 16. In team events, he won the Nations Cup and the World Cup with England. He is one of a select number of players to have made over 300 century breaks in professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Players Tour Championship 2012/2013 – Event 1
The Players Tour Championship 2012/2013 – Event 1 was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 18 and 22 July 2012 at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester, England. Stephen Maguire won his eighth professional title by defeating Jack Lisowski 4–3 in the final. Prize fund and ranking points The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below: *1 Only professional players can earn ranking points. Main draw Preliminary rounds Round 1 Best of 7 frames Round 2 Best of 7 frames Main rounds Top half = Section 1 = = Section 2 = = Section 3 = = Section 4 = Bottom half = Section 5 = = Section 6 = = Section 7 = = Section 8 = Finals Century breaks * 141 Ali Carter * 138 Marco Fu * 136 Paul Davison * 135 Tom Maxfield * 133, 110 Luca Brecel * 131 Sam Baird * 129, 105 Cao Yupeng * 128 Jack Lisowski * 125, 122 Stephen Maguire * 125 John Astley * 124, 117 Barry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Players Tour Championship 2012/2013
The Players Tour Championship 2012/2013 was a series of snooker tournaments which started on 18 June 2012 and ended on 17 March 2013, with events held in England, across Europe and in China. In this season the European events formed the European Tour and events were held in China for the first time under the Asian Players Tour Championship name. The thirteen regular minor-ranking events were concluded with the Finals. The European Tour was sponsored by Betfair. Schedule Order of Merit UK/Europe After 10 out of 10 events: (Top 26 players out of 442) Asian After 3 out of 3 events: (Top 8 players out of 113) Finals The Finals of the Players Tour Championship 2012/2013 took place between 12–17 March 2013 at the Bailey Allen Hall in Galway Galway ( ; ga, Gaillimh, ) is a City status in Ireland, city in the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht, which is the county town of County Galway. It lies on the River Corri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ebdon
Peter David Ebdon (born 27 August 1970) is an English former snooker player. The winner of the 2002 World Snooker Championship, Ebdon won nine world ranking events, placing twelfth on the all-time list of ranking tournament winners. In addition to his world snooker championship, Ebdon won a second Triple Crown event at the 2006 UK Championship. After winning the 1990 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship, Ebdon turned professional, making his debut at the World Snooker Championship the following year. He won his first professional event at the 1993 Grand Prix and reached the elite top 16 players in the world rankings in 1995. He reached his first World Championship final in 1996, where he lost to Stephen Hendry, however, he reached the final again in 2002 World Snooker Championship, defeating Hendry 18–17. He reached a third World Championship final in 2006, losing to Graeme Dott. Ebdon continued in the top 16 until 2011, reaching the last of his 18 ranking event fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiao Guodong
Xiao Guodong (, born 10 February 1989) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2007 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championships. Career 2007–2010 Xiao appeared as a wildcard in the 2007 China Open, and beat the then world number 50 Tom Ford 5–3, before losing 0–5 to Matthew Stevens. In his first ranking tournament, the 2007 Grand Prix he finished 4th in his qualifying group by winning 3 out his 7 matches. In the 2007 Northern Ireland Trophy he beat Leo Fernandez 5-1 and Jimmy White 5–0, before he lost to David Gilbert 2–5. He lost his first match in the 2007 UK Championship to Kurt Maflin and to the same player in the 2008 China Open qualifiers too. In the Welsh Open he lost to fellow Chinese player Liu Song 2–5. A victory over Munraj Pal in the 2008 World Championship qualifiers set up a match with David Roe, which he lost 5–10. Xiao won the Paul Hunter English Open in 2008. In the 2009 China Open, he beat Michael Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Yan (snooker Player)
Li Yan (born September 17, 1992) is a former professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China. Career Early career Li received a wild card for the 2008 Shanghai Masters, losing 1–5 to Anthony Hamilton. At the 2009 Shanghai Masters, he defeated Gerard Greene 5–4, before losing to Ryan Day in the last 32. 2011/2012 season Li qualified for the 2011/2012 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the second Q School event. As a new player on the tour Li would need to win four matches in order to reach the main stage of the ranking tournaments. He accomplished this in qualifying for the second biggest tournament on the snooker calendar, the UK Championship, with wins over Stuart Carrington, Andy Hicks, Jack Lisowski and Fergal O'Brien. He faced former world champion Shaun Murphy in the first round of the event and was beaten 3–6. He could not qualify for another tournament for the remainder of the season but did play in all 12 of the PTC even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Shanghai Masters
The 2012 Bank of Communications, Bank of Communication Shanghai Masters (snooker), Shanghai Masters was a professional Snooker world rankings, ranking snooker tournament that took place between 17 and 23 September 2012 at the Shanghai Indoor Stadium, Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai, China. It was the third ranking event of the Snooker season 2012/2013, 2012/2013 season. Mark Selby was the defending champion, but he lost in the first round 1–5 against Jamie Cope. John Higgins won his 25th ranking title by defeating Judd Trump 10–9 in the final. During the final Higgins made the 91st official maximum break. This was Higgins's sixth 147 break and also the third maximum break of the 2012/2013 season. Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: *Winner: Pound sterling, £75,000 *Runner-up: £30,000 *Semi-final: £18,000 *Quarter-final: £10,000 *Last 16: £7,500 *Last 32: £6,000 *Last 48: £2,300 *Last 64: £1,500 *Non-televised highest break: £2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012–13 Snooker Season
The 2012–13 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between 16 May 2012 and 6 May 2013. The season featured two new ranking events: the Wuxi Classic and the International Championship. The tour had a record five ranking events in China, and three new PTC events in Asia. The tour also visited Bulgaria for the first time in its history, and returned to Poland, Belgium and Australia. Before the start of the season World Snooker requested every player to sign a players contract, that would allow players to choose which events they want to enter – no player was forced to play in any event. At the end of the season Mark Selby was named the ''World Snooker Player of the Year'', the ''Snooker Writers' Player of the Year'' and the ''Fans' Player of the Year'' and Ian Burns the ''Rookie of the Year''. Ronnie O'Sullivan received the "Performance of the Year" for winning his fifth World title after playing just one competitive match during the season. Jimmy R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 12
The Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 12 (also known as the 2012 FFB Snooker Open and the 2012 Arcaden Shopping Open for sponsorship purposes.) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 15 and 16 December 2011 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England with the first three rounds and 6–8 January 2012 at the Event Forum in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany from the last 16 onwards. Matthew Stevens made the 82nd official maximum break during his last 128 match against Michael Wasley. This was Stevens' first 147 break. On the same day Ding Junhui made the 83rd official maximum break during his last 128 match against Brandon Winstone. This was Ding's third 147 break. This was the first time that two official maximum breaks have been compiled on the same day. Stephen Maguire won his seventh professional title by defeating Joe Perry 4–2 in the final. Prize fund and ranking points The breakdown of prize money and ranking points ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 10
The Players Tour Championship 2011/2012 – Event 10 was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 27 and 30 November 2011 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England. David Gray made the 80th official maximum break during his round 2 preliminary match against Robbie Williams. This was Gray's second 147 break. Ricky Walden made the 81st official maximum break during his last 128 match against Gareth Allen. This was Walden's first 147 break. Michael Holt won his third professional title by defeating Dominic Dale 4–2 in the final. Prize fund and ranking points The breakdown of prize money and ranking points of the event is shown below: *1 Only professional players can earn ranking points. Main draw Preliminary rounds Round 1 Best of 7 frames Round 2 Best of 7 frames Main rounds Top half =Section 1= =Section 2= =Section 3= =Section 4= Bottom half =Section 5= =Section 6= =Section 7= =Section 8= Finals C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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