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2009–10 Snooker Season
The 2009–10 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between 16 May 2009 and 8 May 2010. There were six ranking events, two less than in the previous season. The Bahrain Championship was not held again, and the Northern Ireland Trophy was removed from the calendar too. The Jiangsu Classic was held for the first time. New professional players Countries * * * * * * * * * Note: new means in these case, that these players were not on the 2008/2009 professional Main Tour. ; ;NGB nominations ;From PIOS Tour ;WPBSA Wildcard Calendar The following table outlines the results and dates for all the ranking and major invitational events. World Snooker Tour World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association Pontin's International Open Series Other events Official rankings The top 16 of the world rankings, these players automatically played in the final rounds of the world ranking events and were invited for the Masters. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ding Junhui
Ding Junhui (; born 1 April 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He is the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport. Throughout his career, he has won 15 major ranking titles, including three UK Championships (2005 UK Championship, 2005, 2009 UK Championship, 2009, 2019 UK Championship, 2019), and in 2014, became the first Asian world number one. He has twice reached the final of the Masters (snooker), Masters, winning once in 2011 Masters (snooker), 2011. In 2016, he became the first Asian player to reach the final of the 2016 World Snooker Championship, World Championship. Ding began playing snooker at age nine and rose to international prominence in 2002 after winning the ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship, Asian Under-21 Championship and the ACBS Asian Snooker Championship, Asian Championship. At age 15, he became the youngest winner of the IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship, IBSF World Under-21 Championship. In 2003, Ding turned pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship
The ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship is the premier non-professional junior snooker tournament in Asia. The event series is sanctioned by the Asian Confederation of Billiard Sports and started from 1993. In most of the seasons, the winner of the tournament qualifies for the next season of the Professional Snooker Tour. Winners cuetracker.net/tournaments/Asian-under-21-championship cuetracker.net/tournaments/Asian-under-21-championship-women Boys Girls Stats Champions by country (Men's) Champions by country (Women's) See also * World Snooker Tour The World Snooker Tour (WST) is the main professional snooker tour, consisting of about 128 players competing on a circuit of up to 28 tournaments each season. It is administered by World Snooker Ltd, the commercial arm of professional snooker, ... References {{International amateur snooker championships Youth snooker competitions Recurring sporting events established in 1993 1993 establishments in Asia S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Rowlings
Stephen Rowlings is an English former professional snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets: one at each corner and ... player. His only season on the professional tour was the 2009–10 season. References External links Player profile on World Snooker (from 2010)* 1976 births Living people English snooker players Sportspeople from Preston, Lancashire {{England-snooker-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjorn Haneveer
Bjorn Haneveer (born 4 September 1976 in) is a Belgian snooker player and commentator. Haneveer, formerly a professional competitor, now plays at semi-professional level and also commentates on snooker matches for Dutch Eurosport. Career A six-time Belgian snooker champion (last title won in May 2007 vs Patrick Delsemme), Haneveer lost in the final of the European Championship in Scotland in June, 2000. He was European Champion at Enschede, Netherlands and at Riga, Latvia in June, 2001. Haneveer won the snooker gold medal at the sixth World Games held in Akita, Japan, in August, 2001. He made a 147 break during the 2003 European Championship at Bad Wildungen in Germany and another during the Belgian Championships, 2007. He won the bronze medal at the seventh World Games held in Germany (21 July 2005). He was a Main Tour professional for many years, and reached a top ranking of No 53 during the 2004–05 season. Until the arrival on tour of Luca Brecel Luca Brecel (; born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Page
Lee Page (born 6 November 1987) is an English former professional snooker player from Kidderminster. He began his professional career by playing Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour, currently titled as the HotelPlanner Tour for sponsorship reasons and also sometimes referred to as the European Challenge Tour, is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European To ... in 2004, at the time the second-level professional tour. Career Page first entered Main Tour for the 2006–07 season, but was unable to retain his place for the following season's tour. He qualified for the 2009–10 season, however he was relegated from the circuit at the end of the season. He returned to the tour after winning a two-year card at the 2013 Q School for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons. Performance and rankings timeline Career finals Pro-am finals: 1 Amateur finals: 3 (1 title) References External links * * Player profile on Worl ... [...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. He won his first ranking event 17 years after first turning professional at the 2024 Wuhan Open (snooker), 2024 Wuhan Open, beating Si Jiahui 107 in only the third all-Chinese ranking event final. He also took part in the first ever all-Chinese ranking event final, when he lost 610 to Ding Junhui in the 2013 Shanghai Masters. Career 2007–2010 Xiao appeared as a wildcard in the 2007 China Open (snooker), 2007 China Open, and beat the then world number 50 Tom Ford (snooker player), Tom Ford 5–3, before losing 0–5 to Matthew Stevens. In his first ranking tournament, the 2007 Grand Prix (snooker), 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 (snooker player), D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Open Series
The International Open Series (often referred to as Pontins International Open Series or PIOS for sponsorship reasons), was a series of snooker tournaments that ran from the 2001–02 season until the 2009–10 season. It was originally called the Open Tour but was renamed in 2005. The tour was established to provide players not on the Main Tour or the minor Challenge Tour (now WPBSA Q Tour) with some degree of professional competition, and the best performers were initially promoted to the Challenge Tour. The series was abandoned after the 2009–10 season and replaced by Q School in the 2010–11 season. History It was organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) during its first season, but the English Association of Snooker and Billiards (EASB), an amateur body, took it over from the 2002–03 season. The event was open to professionals, amateurs and international players for the first couple of seasons, but following the EASB's split ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mei Xiwen
Mei Xiwen (; born October 8, 1982) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. Career Mei made his debut on the Main Tour in the 2009/2010 season, as the ACBS Asian nomination, playing his first match at the 2009 Grand Prix. He lost 5–0 to Patrick Wallace, and was defeated in his next two matches, in the UK Championship and the Welsh Open, to Atthasit Mahitthi and Stephen Rowlings respectively. Mei recorded his first win as a professional in the 2010 China Open, where he beat Noppadol Sangnil 5–4, having trailed 4–2, but lost in the next round, 5–1 to Robert Milkins. After losing in qualifying for the 2010 World Championship to David Morris, Mei finished the season ranked 89th, and was relegated from the tour thereafter. Mei received a wildcard entry in to the 2010 Shanghai Masters and beat Mike Dunn 5–1, before losing 5–2 to Mark Selby. He also played in the wildcard round of the China Open and lost 5–3 to Marcus Campbell, as well as being unsuccessf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Brown (snooker Player)
Jordan Brown (born 9 October 1987) is a Northern Irish professional snooker player. After winning back-to-back Northern Ireland Amateur Championships in 2008 and 2009, he made his debut on the professional tour in 2009–10 but lost his tour card after one season. He rejoined the tour via the 2018 Q School. He made his Crucible debut at the 2020 World Snooker Championship. In January 2021, he reached the quarter-final of the German Masters, and in February 2021, he won his first ranking title at the Welsh Open, defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–8 in the final. Ranked 81st in the world before the event, and rated a 750–1 outsider by bookmakers, he became the lowest-ranked player to win a ranking event since 1993. Career After winning the Northern Ireland Amateur Championship in 2008 and 2009, Brown received a tour card for the 2009–10 snooker season but lasted only one season on the tour. As an occasional wild card entrant to ranking events, he enjoyed some notable victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan O'Donoghue
Brendan O'Donoghue (born 15 December 1982 in Nenagh, County Tipperary) is an Irish former professional snooker player. Career O'Donoghue became the Irish nominee for 2009–10 season after he topped the Irish national standings by defeating John Torpey in the quarter-finals of the Irish Amateur Championship. Going into the competition Mario Fernandez was the only player who could take his tour spot away, but he lost to TJ Dowling in the quarters, which gave O'Donoghue's lead unassailable, despite Martin McCrudden winning the tournament. However O'Donoghue joined the main tour at a time when there was only six rankings events during the season A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's axial tilt, tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperat ... and failed to make an impact on the main tour due to his full-time job, which re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Boyle (snooker Player)
Mark Boyle (born 19 December 1981) is a Scottish former professional snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets: one at each corner and ... player. He first joined the professional tour for the 2006–07 season, but dropped off at the end of the season. He returned in 2009–10 but dropped off again at the end of the season after a 10–8 defeat by Jimmy White. Boyle is currently a professional pool player. Boyle is the ambassador for the Mick McGoldrick junior pool academies with many of his students going on to represent Scotland. He was runner-up at the 2006 IBSF World Grand Prix Tournament wins ;Billiards * 2003 Scottish Billiards Champion * 2004 Scottish Billiards Champion ;Snooker * 2005 Home International Champions (Team Scotland) * 2008 Scottish Champion * 2009 Scottish Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael White (snooker Player)
Michael White (born 5 July 1991) is a Welsh former professional snooker player from Neath, Glamorgan. Nicknamed ‘Lightning’ due to his fast playing style, he won two Snooker world rankings, ranking titles during his career. White holds the Guinness World Records, Guinness World Record as the youngest player to compile a witnessed century break, a feat he accomplished in March 2001 when he was aged 9 years and 268 days. He won the IBSF World Snooker Championship, World Amateur Championship in 2006 IBSF World Grand Prix, 2006, aged 14, and turned professional during the 2007–08 snooker season. He won his first ranking title at the 2015 Indian Open and his second at the 2017 Paul Hunter Classic. He reached his career highest world ranking of 15th in April 2016. White's form declined in the 2018–19 snooker season, 2018–19 season, and he dropped off the professional tour after ending the 2019–20 snooker season, 2019–20 season outside the top 64 in the world rankings. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
