Adam Davies (snooker player)

Adam Davies
birthday	11th August 1982 (age 38)
nationality	England
professional	2004-2006
Prize money	4,255 pounds
Highest break	139
Century Breaks	5
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	80 (2005/06)

Adam Davies (born August 11, 1982 ) is an English snooker player from Clacton . In the mid-2000s he played for two years as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour .

Career

Adam Davies was a promising young talent and reached the quarter-finals at the U21 Junior World Championship in 1999 at the age of 16 . In 2002 he played on the Challenge Tour , where you could qualify for the professional tour. But he only won one game in three tournaments. The following year he was initially unsuccessful, but in the fourth tournament he surprisingly reached the round of 16, where he defeated James McBain , and only in the quarter-finals did he lose to James Leadbetter . Without a special individual result, but three times by reaching the round of 32, he played in 2003/04. Outstanding, however, was his performance at the 2004 professional world championships , open to amateurs , where he survived five amateur rounds and made it to the last 128 round. In addition, he was in the main round of the U21 World Cup for the second time this season and reached the round of 16.

For the 2004/05 season he got a start for the professional tournaments and at the British Open he celebrated his first professional victory over Darren Morgan . He defeated the Welsh Paul Davies and Simon Bedford in other tournaments and Mike Hallett he beat in the first round of the world championship . He was not among the top 64 of the snooker world rankings , which automatically stayed on the Main Tour, but 11th place in the annual ranking was enough for him and he started his second professional season at 80th place. In the 2005/06 season there was only one six more tournaments to collect points and only at the China Open he managed a narrow 5-4 win with 65:56 in the decision-making frame against Björn Haneveer . He fell back in the rankings and lost his professional status at the end of the season. He had a success in addition to the season at the Pontins Pro-Am series in Prestatyn , where professionals and amateurs competed in the tournaments. In the first tournament, he reached the semi-finals and previously defeated the world number 38. Gerard Greene .

The following year he played at the Pontin's International Open Series (PIOS) to return to the Main Tour. In the first four tournaments he reached the second round twice and in tournament 5 he made it to the semifinals. The remaining of the eight PIOS tournaments ended too early for him and so he did not get beyond 17th place in the eight Main Tour places in the overall ranking. In the following year, all tournaments ended at the latest in the round of the last 32 and he ended up in 48th place. Only two years later he tried again on the PIOS Tour, but only reached number 27. This gave him his professional ambitions and ended his career at the age of about 26.

Adam's brother, Alex Davies , who was four years his junior , also turned pro in 2007.

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Profile of Adam Davies (snooker player) on CueTracker (as of February 1, 2018)
2. ↑ Euro Player Profile: Adam Davies (England). European Billiards & Snooker Association , archived from the original on March 16, 2008 ; accessed on May 25, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Pontin's International Open Series 2006/2007 ( Memento from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Pontin's International Open Series 2007/2008 ( Memento from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ PIOS Ranking - Season 2009/2010 ( Memento from October 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Snooker: Whirlwind is blown away. Evening Gazette, May 13, 2003; accessed February 1, 2018 . 

Web links

• Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)
• Adam Davies in the Snooker Database