Peter Ebdon

Peter Ebdon
Ebdon at the German Masters 2014
birthday	27th August 1970 (age 50)
place of birth	Islington , London
nationality	England
Nickname (s)	Ebbo, The Force
professional	1991 - 2020
Prize money	£ 3,639,502
Highest break	147 (2 ×)
Century Breaks	377
Main tour successes
World championships	1
Ranking tournament victories	9
World rankings
Highest WRL place	3 ( 1996/97 + 2002/03 )

Peter Ebdon (born August 27, 1970 in Islington , London ) is a former English snooker player who spent 29 seasons between 1991 and 2020 as a professional player. During this time he won the Snooker World Championship in 2002 and the UK Championship in 2006 , but is not a member of the Triple Crown due to the lack of a Masters title .

Ebdon was born in London and became one of the leading amateur players of his time in the mid-1980s. During his amateur days, he won the Pontins Spring Open in 1989 and the U21 World Amateur Championship in 1990 , before Ebdon, then known for his unconventional appearance , became a professional player in the 1991/92 season. The first successes came quickly and within a few years he was among the best in the world. He won his first professional tournament at the 1993 Grand Prix , and numerous other titles followed in the years to come. In 1996 he reached the final of the World Snooker Championship , but lost to Stephen Hendry . After a marginal deterioration in the world rankings, it returned to the top of the world at the beginning of the 2000s. In 2002 he finally achieved his greatest success by winning the World Snooker Championship , which took him to 3rd place in the world rankings.

Ebdon, now known and feared for his very well thought-out style of play, fell back on the world rankings despite a few other great successes such as winning the UK Championship in 2006 and the vice-world title in the same year. Although he was still in the top 10 until 2009, he then had to accept successive losses on the world rankings. In 2012 he won his last major title with the China Open . In the following years he only reached two more finals at professional level and fell back on the world rankings to around 50th place. In April 2020, he announced the end of his career due to persistent pain.

Personal

Ebdon was in London district of Islington born. He spent part of his childhood in Northamptonshire . In his childhood he played the oboe and cricket and after receiving his secondary school leaving certificate he did not continue his school career in favor of a career in snooker.

Ebdon has four children and is interested in equestrian sports. Author Chris Turner sees this interest, along with his marriage and fatherhood, as a major reason for his temporary deterioration in the late 1990s, as Ebdon devoted himself to intensive studies of the pedigrees of racehorses and his family. Apart from that, Ebdon also appeared as a pop singer. By 2012 he released three singles, including a cover version of the song I Am A Clown by David Cassidy .

Career

From the mid-1980s: beginnings as an amateur

Since the mid-1980s, Ebdon took part in various amateur tournaments and quickly became one of the leading amateurs of his time. In 1987 he took part in the English Amateur Championship and the Amateur World Championship . In 1989 he achieved his first major success by winning the Pontins Spring Open against Ken Doherty . In the same year he reached the semi-finals of the U21 World Amateur Championship and was defeated by Jason Ferguson before winning another tournament at the 1990 Dutch Open against Tony Knowles . Shortly thereafter, he defeated Oliver King in the final of the U21 Amateur World Championship before losing his opening game to Gary Wilkinson at the 1991 World Masters . A little later he became a professional player.

1991–1995: First professional years

Ebdon began his professional career in the 1991/92 season , in which the professional tour was opened to all players and the number of participants in the tournaments rose suddenly. For this reason Ebdon had to fight through numerous qualifying rounds, which he also managed several times. He was able to reach the round of 64 a total of four times, plus a round of 16 participation in the Grand Prix . At the end of the season he fought his way through eight qualifying rounds at the snooker world championship, including a 10-0 victory over Cliff Wilson , which immediately qualified him for the main round, which began with a 10-4 win over six-time world champion Steve Davis . With a win over Martin Clark he reached the quarterfinals, in which his winning streak was stopped by Terry Griffiths . This great success led him to 47th place in the following season, saving him a large part of the qualifying rounds. At the end of the season, Ebdon, who had played his two maximum breaks during the season , was named WPBSA Young Player Of The Year .

In the next season he consistently reached at least the round of 64, but never got past the round of 16 in ranked tournaments. Nevertheless, his results were enough to improve to 21st place in the world rankings. During the 1993/94 season , Ebdon was eliminated several times in the quarterfinals and at the Welsh Open only in the semifinals , despite some early defeat . At the Grand Prix he reached the final for the first time in his professional career and won his first title there against Ken Doherty. As a result, he improved to 10th place in the world rankings.

Despite some defeats in or before the round of 16, Ebdon was able to reach some finals in the 1994/95 season when he started the season with a final at the Dubai Classic . After he was defeated by the Scottish Alan McManus there, he won only two tournaments without world ranking influence during the season with the Irish Masters and the Pontins Professional . In addition, there was a lost final at the Pontins Spring Open at the amateur level . On the professional level, he also reached the semi-finals four more times - including the UK Championship - and the quarterfinals two more times, including the corresponding round at the World Snooker Championship . Despite these successes, it was not enough for an improvement on the world rankings; Ebdon was able to hold onto tenth place, however.

1995–2000: Vice World Champion 1996 and a trip to the top 8

In the 1995/96 season, Ebdon increased his form again when, despite several relatively early defeats, he often reached at least the quarter-finals and often a final. After another final defeat at the start of the season, this time at the Scottish Masters , he continued the season with final defeats in the three ranking tournaments UK Championship , European Open and Snooker World Championship and, in contrast to these games, won his final at the Malta Grand Prix . He had reached the World Cup final with victories over Jimmy White , Steve Davis and Ronnie O'Sullivan , but in the final his opponent Stephen Hendry won his sixth world title with 18:12. These successes enabled Ebdon to score points on the world rankings: he jumped to third place.

The following season went a little worse when he lost his opening game several times and his participation in higher rounds increasingly played out in tournaments without world ranking influence, even if the latter still played a major role. In addition to the Scottish Masters , he won the Thailand Open in the second of his two finals of the season , which, unlike the tournament in Scotland, was a ranking tournament. But since he was eliminated early in the important tournaments, he lost two places on the world rankings. This negative trend continued in the following three seasons, when he reached at least the quarter-finals in just under a third of the tournaments, including the 1998 Snooker World Championship , but otherwise was eliminated early in some cases. Of these ten tournaments with quarterfinals, the majority were ranked tournaments, but during these three seasons he reached only one final with his defeat in the final by Stephen Hendry at the 1999 British Open . His results caused a loss of several places on the world rankings, so that in 2000 he was only twelfth.

2000–2007: Renewed promotion and World Cup title in 2002

Ebdon was able to reach the top of the world again in the early 2000s

The turning point came in the 2000/01 season , when he mostly reached the round of 16 and mostly survived it. He was eliminated twice in the quarter-finals and once in the semi-finals. He achieved his best season results at the British Open and the Scottish Open when he won the final against Jimmy White and Ken Doherty, respectively . In the world rankings he improved to seventh place. The next season he again reduced the defeats before the quarter-finals and lost four times in this and twice in the semi-finals. He also reached two finals by mid-April - the LG Cup and the Irish Masters - but lost them. At the end of the season he moved to the World Snooker Championship with a 17:16 victory over Matthew Stevens in the semifinals in his third season finale, in which he met Stephen Hendry again . Like the semi-finals, this game was also extremely close and was only decided in the decider , in which Ebdon was crowned snooker world champion with a 59 break . On the world rankings he improved to third place through this success. In the months that followed, Ebdon appeared at various charity events and sports tournaments in other sports.

But during the two following seasons Ebdon's results deteriorated again, he was eliminated more often in or before the round of 16 and also had to end his title defense at the World Snooker Championship in the quarter-finals against Paul Hunter . Although he reached at least the quarter-finals five times during the 2002/03 season, including the World Cup, this number fell to three in the following season . However, he reached the Irish Masters , now a ranking tournament, the only final within these two seasons that he won against Mark King . On the world rankings this did not help when he slipped from seventh to eighth.

Between 2004 and 2007, however, Ebdon was eliminated mainly in the round of 32 or in the round of 16. Both during the two seasons 2004/05 and 2005/06 as well as during the next season Ebdon reached the semi-finals three times and in each of these tournaments then also the final, which he lost at the World Snooker Championship 2006 with 14:18 against Graeme Dott and at won the UK Championship a few months later against Stephen Hendry . After he was able to stay at 7th place in the world rankings until 2006, he improved to 6th place at the end of the 2006/07 season.

2007–2016: Gradual farewell to the top 32

Ebdon at the German Masters 2014

In the 2007/08 season Ebdon could not improve his form; he reached the quarter-finals in half of all tournaments, but did not survive this once. In the following season he reached only one quarter-finals with the China Open 2009 , but made it to the final there. With a win over John Higgins , he secured his first title after winning the UK Championship. Nevertheless, he slipped from 9th to 14th in the world rankings, which finally dropped him out of the top 8. Similarly, Ebdon's form continued in the next two seasons, in which he again rarely reached the quarter-finals and only once, at the World Open 2010 , a semi-final. The introduction of the Players Tour Championship , which rapidly increased the number of tournaments, didn't change that. Nevertheless, Ebdon had improved to 13th place after the two seasons, after having occupied 18th place in the meantime.

This trend continued over the next two seasons, when Ebdon only reached the quarterfinals five times and lost his opening game in some PTC tournaments. In these five tournaments he was eliminated once in the quarter-finals and twice in the semifinals, and a little later he reached the final at the China Open 2012 and the Australian Goldfields Open . He won in China 10: 9 against Stephen Maguire , he lost in Australia to Barry Hawkins . The China Open thus became his last title win on the professional tour. On the world rankings, these rare successes could not stop the general trend; Ebdon slipped from 20th place to 30th place.

There was no turnaround in the following three seasons either, and Ebdon was often eliminated early. After he was able to show a quarter-finals participation in the International Championship as the best result in the 2013/14 season , he reached several quarter-finals or semi-finals in the next season primarily at PTC tournaments; he was again denied a final. 2014 also tore its 22-issue series of World Cup main round participations. In the 2015/16 season he never made it through the last sixteen. Ebdon was only successful at amateur level when he won the Vienna Open in 2015 and 2016 . However, these results did not count on the professional world rankings, so that after slipping to 36th place, he remained 31st place for two years in a row.

2016–2020: last professional years

Kyren Wilson and Ebdon at the final of the Paul Hunter Classic 2018

The Players Tour Championship was discontinued for the 2016/17 season , but the number of ranked tournaments remained higher than before the introduction. However, this did not change the fact that Ebdon's results hardly differed from the previous year's level: During the season he only got past the round of 32 once when he reached the semi-finals at the Indian Open and lost to Nigel Bond there . In the world rankings he lost nine more places, which led him to 40th place at the end of the season.

The next season , Ebdon's form was so bad that even playing in the round of 32 was a rarity. His best result was the second round of the World Open . In the 2018/19 season , however, Ebdon improved a little and reached the round of 16 of a tournament three times. He was eliminated at the German Masters in this round and at the Northern Ireland Open in the quarter-finals, after he had reached a final at the Paul Hunter Classic for the last time in his career, but had lost to Kyren Wilson in this . This participation in the finals also had an impact on the world rankings, as he had improved from position 55, to which he had now slipped, to position 47 at the end of the two seasons.

During the subsequent 2019/20 season , Ebdon no longer took part in all tournaments and mostly did not achieve very good results in the other tournaments, his best result was participation in the round of 32 at the Scottish Open . Ebdon then gave up his last game at the Welsh Open without a fight before Ebdon did not participate in the other tournaments or they were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The reason for his frequent waivers were pain in the neck, back and shoulders and arms, which he had had since Christmas 2019. In mid-March, he therefore underwent an MRI scan , which revealed considerable damage to his vertebrae. In order to avoid a risky operation, he announced at the end of April 2020 that he would end his professional career after 29 years as a professional. During his career, Ebdon had won over £ 3.5 million in prize money. A year earlier, he had been toying with retirement, but ultimately decided against it.

Ebdon's resignation received some resonance in the British media. For example, the Guardian , BBC Sport , the Sun , and the Irish Raidió Teilifís Éireann reported . The chairman of the world association's commercial arm, Barry Hearn , thanked Ebdon's “merits for snooker” via Twitter and congratulated him on “a wonderful career.” Two-time vice world champion Ali Carter also wrote on Twitter: “What a man - what a player and what a career. [He] was always the ultimate professional player. "

The following graphic gives an overview of the course of Ebdon's ranking positions compared to the dominant players of his time:

Life after a professional career

When announcing his resignation, Ebdon expressed a desire to intensify his activities as a commentator for the BBC , as a healer and as an entrepreneur. He had already learned yoga before and was trained as a master in Reiki , an esoteric healing concept. Ebdon, who was inducted into the Snooker Hall of Fame in 2013 , was a member of the board of the WPBSA for some time during his career .

A few weeks after his resignation, Ebdon attracted attention through statements regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and corresponding countermeasures . He said in a radio interview that the contact restrictions were "probably harmful" and that the population was being brainwashed by the media. At the same time, he recommended shaking hands to "build up immunity" and a website that is often mentioned by conspiracy theorist David Icke . He also said the population was facing "the greatest psychological enterprise in history." A shit storm on social media followed his statements .

Style of play and appearance

Ebdon, who went by the nicknames Ebbo and The Force , was known for his persistent training as well as his determination, great focus and strength under pressure. In the first years of his professional career, when Ebdon was considered a kind of bird of paradise because of his braid and colorful vests, he was considered one of the toughest players on the professional tour. He kept this ascription for the rest of his career. Ebdon, who was trained by Chris Henry at times , is also someone who uses his intellect very much in the game, which can also be a disadvantage.

In terms of play, Ebdon was also known for his slow and thoughtful game, which so unnerved Ronnie O'Sullivan at the 2005 World Snooker Championship that he gave him a 6:10 lead and Ebdon won 13:11. During the game, it took Ebdon five minutes to break a 12, which also caused his opponent to ask a spectator for the time several times. Several years later, in the face of another encounter, O'Sullivan described Ebdon as "the worst kind of torturer." However, the snooker journalist Hector Nunns also writes that Ebdon could play all attacking shots as well as his opponents - he just needed longer. Together with Ebdon's tactical intelligence, his memory and his will to win, he was a "formidable opponent." As such, he played 377 Century Breaks during his career , two of which were maximum breaks . Ebdon also has a color blindness , which is why he tended to mistake the brown ball for the red. He was one of the first players to realize that physical fitness is also important in snooker, so he swam a mile every day. In addition, he was vegan in his last years as a professional, after he had given up almost completely on carbohydrates and sugar since the 1996 World Cup final. Ebdon also convinced other players of the vegan diet and advised Ali Carter on his diet, among others , because he was suffering from Crohn's disease .

Seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry describes Ebdon as follows in his autobiography:

“[...] Peter is a unique player because he seems to be play shots that no one else would play and take risks where others wouldn't. He plays with supreme belief in himself and confidence in his ability. He will come back at you, again and again and again, and he's not quitter, even when you've established a good lead. In short, he must be beaten properly and that means not relaxing for a second. "

“Peter is a unique player because he seems to be playing shots that no one else would and taking risks where others wouldn't. He plays with the greatest faith in himself and confidence in his abilities. He'll catch up to you, over and over, and he won't give up, even after you've built good leadership. In short: it has to be hit properly and that means that you cannot rest for a second. "

- Stephen Hendry : in his autobiography "Me and the table"

successes

→ Main article : Peter Ebdon / Achievements

During his career, Ebdon reached at least 30 finals, both as a professional player and as an amateur, of which he won 18. While a full listing of these finals is on this page , the following is Ebdon's triple crown finals appearances .

Result	year	competition	Opponent in the final	Final score
finalist	1995	UK Championship	Stephen Hendry	3:10
finalist	1995	World Snooker Championship	Stephen Hendry	12:18
winner	2002	World Snooker Championship	Stephen Hendry	18:17
finalist	2006	World Snooker Championship	Graeme Dott	14:18
winner	2006	UK Championship	Stephen Hendry	10: 6

Web links

Commons : Peter Ebdon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile of Peter Ebdon on CueTracker
• Peter Ebdon in the Snooker Database (English)
• Profile of Peter Ebdon on snooker.org
• Player profile at wst.tv (English)
• Peter Ebdon in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

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