Patrick Barrie is a British

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player. He has won ten World Singles matches, most recently in April 2022. He was defeated by Matthew Rose in March 2023 making him the former World Singles champion. He has won eight World Pairs matches (most recently partnering Harley Jones), but lost the World Pairs title in April 2022 to Larry Kahn and Jon Mapley. Barrie started playing tiddlywinks in 1984 as an undergraduate at

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, where he is a senior lecturer in

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. He has a long rivalry with American player Larry Kahn, with the ''

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'' describing them as "the Nadal and Djokovic of their game". The pair have played 11 World Singles matches, with Barrie winning three, and eight World Pairs matches (with various partners) with four wins apiece. He has also won the

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(ETwA) Singles (English national championship) ten times and the ETwA Pairs nine times. His tiddlywinks exploits have seen him sponsored by a whisky distillery, with his image appearing on some of their bottles.

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