Ray Edmonds (born 25 April 1936 in
Grimsby
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,
Lincolnshire
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) is a former
English
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professional player of
English billiards
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and
snooker.
He twice won the World Amateur Snooker title, and won the
World Professional Billiards Championship
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in 1985.
Playing career
Edmonds first played snooker as an amateur, winning the World Amateur crown in
1972
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and
1974.
After turning professional he reached the main stages
World Snooker Championship
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on four occasions, in
1980,
1981
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,
1985
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and
1986
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, on each occasion losing in the first round. He was as a semi-finalist at the
1981 English Professional Championship,
and runner-up in the invitational
1982 Bass and Golden Leisure Classic
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.
Edmonds became
World Professional Billiards Champion in 1985.
At the
1988 Grand Prix (snooker), he reached the last-16 round.
In the qualifying competition for the
1994 World Snooker Championship
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, he lost 3–5 to
Surinder Gill
Surinder Gill (born 20 January 1968) is an English former professional snooker player who competed on the main tour in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Career
Born in 1968, Gill turned professional in 1991. He first made progress in a ranking even ...
, and the
following year he lost 4–5 to Darren Limburg.
In 1995, he resigned from the board of the
World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
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after serving on it for 14 years.
Post-retirement
Edmonds set up the
Ray Edmonds Snooker Centre in Grimsby in December 1983.
He has worked also a snooker commentator with both
ITV and the
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before retiring in 2004.