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Dominic Dale (born Christopher Dale on 29 December 1971) is a Welsh professional

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player and snooker commentator and presenter for the

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Career

Dale was born in

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. He won the Welsh Amateur Championship, which allowed him to compete at the World Amateur Championship in Bangkok. Dale reached the final, but lost 9–11 against

Noppadon Noppachorn Noppadon Noppachorn ( th, นพดล นภจร; born 24 February 1968) is a former professional snooker player from Thailand who played a number of matches on the world snooker tour between 1992 and 2002. He played as part of the 1996 Sno ...

. Dale turned professional for the 1992–93 season. He has won two ranking tournaments in his career, the first of which – the

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in 1997 – he won while ranked number 54 in the world, beating then world number 2

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9–6 in the final. It took him a decade to repeat the achievement at the 2007 Shanghai Masters, where he defeated compatriot Ryan Day 10–6 in the final, from 2–6 behind. On his way to the Shanghai final he beat Rory McLeod,

Ken Doherty Ken Doherty (born 17 September 1969) is an Irish professional snooker player, commentator and radio presenter. As an amateur, Doherty won the Irish Amateur Championship twice, the World Under-21 Amateur Championship and the World Amateur C ...

Adrian Gunnell Adrian Gunnell (born 24 August 1972) is an English former professional snooker player from Telford. He has reached the last-16 in four world ranking events (three in Asia, in three different seasons, and at the 2008 Grand Prix), but has yet to ...

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and

Mark Selby Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player, who is a four-time World Snooker Champion. Ranked world number one on multiple occasions, he has won a total of 21 ranking titles, placing him eighth on the ...

. Both of his ranking victories were in the season-opening tournaments; he also reached the semi-finals of the season-opening events in 2002 ( LG Cup) and 2006 (

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). He also beat

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at the 2008 Malta Cup, despite a bout of stomach cramps and a drinking session the night before the match. Dale is the only player to have won multiple ranking tournaments without ever reaching the top 16, but he was 14th on the one-year list for both 1997/1998 and 1999/2000 (missing out due to an unsuccessful 1998/1999 season). His best

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performances were in 2000 and 2014, when he reached the quarter-finals. Dale won the third professional tournament of his career when he won Event 6 of the

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, beating

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4–3 in the final. This win, along with other consistent performances, were enough to see him back into the top 32 players. He also qualified for the

for the first time since 2004, although he was comprehensively beaten 10–2 in the first round by

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2011/2012 season

Dale had a good start to his 2011–12 season as he reached the quarter-finals of the first event, the

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. Dale was originally due to meet

in the first round, but due to his withdrawal for medical reasons he instead played amateur Steve Mifsud and won 5–2. He then beat home favourite

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on the final black in a 5–4 win lasting almost four hours, before losing to Mark Williams in another final-frame decider, having never been behind in the match until the end. He then reached the final stages of the

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for the first time since

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by beating

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in the final qualifying round and was drawn against

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in the last 32. Dale led 4–2 before Trump had a large slice of fortune in the seventh frame by a pink. Dale would eventually lose the match 4–6. He also reached the 2012 PTC Finals courtesy of finishing twentieth in the

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. His qualification was largely due to making the final of Event 10, where he was beaten by Michael Holt 2–4. In the Finals he lost 2–4 to

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 t ...

in the first round. Dale qualified for the

with a 10–3 victory over

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to set up another first round meeting with Judd Trump. He led the match 7–6 against an opponent who later revealed to be suffering from food poisoning, before conceding four successive frames to lose 7–10. Dale finished the season ranked world number 23, meaning he had climbed 8 places during the year.

2012/2013 season

Dale qualified for nine of the eleven ranking events during the 2012–13 season, but lost in the first round in eight of them. The exception was at the International Championship where he beat

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6–3, before losing 5–6 to 14-year-old Lü Haotian in the second round. Dale's best run in the PTC's came at Event Three by reaching the semi-finals in a run that included a 4–2 over

, but he lost to world number 65

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0–4. Dale finished 28th on the Order of Merit, just outside the top 26 who qualified for the

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. Dale reached the opening round of the

by dispatching

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10–5 and played

at this stage for the second successive year where he was defeated 10–5. His end of season ranking was world number 23 for the second year in a row. At the end of the season, Dale gave a frank interview to snookerTV,"I feel like my breath is not quite as foul smelling as I would like. I've been eating foul food and haven't brushed my teeth for 9 years but I need to do more to challenge for the majors. Now if you would please excuse me, I must defecate. FECES!".

2013/2014 season

Dale reached his second quarter-final in the

in three years in the early stages of the 2013–14 season. He eliminated Mike Dunn and

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, but then lost 5–1 to

Marco Fu Marco Fu Ka-chun, MH, JP (, born 8 January 1978) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player. He is a three-time snooker world rankings, ranking event winner, having won the 2007 Grand Prix (snooker), 2007 Grand Prix, the 2013 Australian ...

. In the next four ranking events he lost in the first round of two and failed qualify for both of the others. In January 2014, Dale won the Snooker Shoot-Out final in Blackpool, beating Stuart Bingham in a close frame. Dale had received significant support from the crowd and had promised to sing

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should he win the event. In his post-match interview he sang a short rendition of the song, showcasing an impressive baritone voice. The result seemed to kick start his season as the following week he beat

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and

at the

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, but let a 3–1 lead slip in the last 16 against

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to lose 5–3. Dale also won two matches before falling at the third round in the Welsh Open and World Open, losing to

and

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respectively. Dale qualified for the

courtesy of defeating

Andrew Higginson Andrew Higginson (born 13 December 1977) is an English former professional snooker player from Widnes, Cheshire. He is best known for being the surprise finalist of the 2007 Welsh Open. Career Early years After some success in amateur tourn ...

in the final round of qualifying. He faced

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in the first round and beat him 10–5, marking his first win at the Crucible since 2000. Dale followed this up with a 13–4 win over

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(who had beaten pre-tournament second favourite

in his opening match) to reach the quarter-finals for the second time, 14 years after the first. Dale played

Barry Hawkins Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979) is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season, when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championsh ...

and trailed 11–5 after the second session, but then amazingly won seven frames in a row to be just one away from reaching the semi-finals and matching the biggest comeback at this stage ever at the

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. However, Hawkins won the two frames he required without giving Dale a chance to beat him 13–12. Later, Dale revealed that he had reverted to an old cue action before the start of the final session.

2014/2015 season

Dale lost 5–3 to

in the first round of the

and he reached the semi-finals of the

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, where

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beat him 7–1. At the Shanghai Masters he knocked out

5–2, before losing 5–1 to

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. This last 16 defeat would prove to be Dale's best finish in a ranking event this season as he could not win another match at a venue until the China Open, when he ousted Jimmy Robertson 5–3, but then fell 5–2 to

in the second round. He had a consistent year in the minor-ranking

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events with a pair of last 16 exits helping him to finish 25th on the

to claim the last qualification place for the

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, where he was whitewashed 4–0 by

in the opening round.

2015/2016 season

At the International Championship, Dale defeated

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6–1 and then lost 6–3 to Joe Perry in the second round. His second round match with

at the

finished at 1:30am as Dale relinquished a 5–4 advantage to be beaten 6–5. Breaks of 72, 73, 82 and 61 saw Dale sneak past Mark Williams in the opening round of the

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4–3, before he lost 4–1 to

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. Dale won more than one match at a ranking event for the only time this season when he knocked out Jamie Jones and Darryl Hill at the China Open, but then was beaten 6–1 by

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in the third round.

2016/2017 season

Dale saw off Ishpreet Chadha 4–2 and

4–0 to reach the third round of the Indian Open, where he lost 4–1 to

. At the

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he enjoyed victories over

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, Michael Holt,

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and

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to play in the semi-finals of a ranking event for the first time since 2007. Dale was defeated 4–2 by

. He lost in the second round of the International Championship 6–2 to

and won three frames in a row to take his third round match with

at the

in to a final-frame decider. He had chances in it but could not take them to be ousted 6–5. In the final

qualifying round Dale made the 200th century break of his career, but would be defeated 10–5 by

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Personal life

Dale's personality, dress sense and hair styles make him one of the more flamboyant players on the circuit. In his early years he wore a white suit with colourful shirts. In 2007 he sported bleached blonde hair with a bright pink shirt. His interests include snooker memorabilia,

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and operatic singing. After his Shanghai Masters semi-final win, he celebrated by singing "

" at the post-match conference. and also did so after his victory in 2014 Snooker Shoot-Out. In December 2007 Dale moved to

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with his then girlfriend. His form declined after this move, which he attributed to not having a professional training partner in Vienna,World Snooker News: Dale – I Haven’t Adjusted To Vienna Move
/ref> and he returned to live in the UK four years later, although only for a year.

Performance and rankings timeline

Career finals

Ranking finals: 2 (2 titles)

Minor-ranking finals: 2 (1 title)

Non-ranking finals: 4 (2 titles)

Pro-am finals: 7 (6 titles)

Team finals: 2 (1 title)

Amateur finals: 2 (1 title)

References

External links

Dominic Dale
at ''worldsnooker.com'' *
Profile on Global Snooker
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dale, Dominic 1971 births Living people Welsh snooker players Snooker writers and broadcasters Welsh expatriates in Germany Sportspeople from Coventry Sportspeople from Swansea