Alain Robidoux

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Alain Robidoux
birthday	25th July 1960 (age 60)
place of birth	Saint-Jerome
nationality	Canada
Nickname (s)	Scoobie, The Eel
professional	1987-2004
Prize money	£ 678,000
Highest break	147 ( European Open 1989 , Q)
Century Breaks	37
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	9 ( 97/98 )

Alain Robidoux (born July 25, 1960 in Saint-Jérôme ) is a Canadian snooker player .

His best season was in 1996/97 when he reached the final of the German Open , where he lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan 7: 9. In the 1997/98 season he had his highest place in the snooker world rankings with 9th place .

Career

Alain Robidoux turned professional in mid-1988. In the qualifying tournament for the Snooker World Championship , his opponents withdrew in the first and second round and he reached the third round without a fight. Although he was eliminated in the third round, he received enough world ranking points to be allowed in the 1988/89 season as 102nd for the tour.

His first full season started very successfully. He won the title at the Canadian Open and in qualifying for the European Open in Blackpool he managed a maximum break . He reached the semi-finals at the Grand Prix in Reading and the round of 16 at the European Open. That put him in 35th place in the world.

In the following season he reached at the International Open , the semifinals in two other tournaments the knockout stages and four tournaments the Round of 32. He was allowed for the first time in Crucible Theater to the Snooker World Championships participate and climbed into the snooker world rankings to No. 17 .

In the 1990/91 season he reached the quarter-finals at the British Open and the second round of the World Cup. With these successes he climbed to 13th place in the world rankings. With three more quarter-finals in the 1991/92 season, he consolidated his ranking.

In the 1992/93 season, however, he lost his opening match in six of nine ranked tournaments. This led to a deterioration in his ranking to 18th place. The next season was also miserable and he slipped out of the top 32 in the world rankings.

Alain Robidoux came back to 14th place in the ranking after good placements and a semifinal participation at the International Open in the 1994/95 season . He reached the final of the German Open , which he lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan, and reached the quarter-finals of both the Grand Prix and the UK Championship . At the end of the season he achieved his best ranking position with number 9 in the world rankings. In 1996 he became World Trickshot Champion in South Africa . In 1997 he reached the semi-finals at the World Cup, where he lost to eventual tournament winner Ken Doherty .

Then another miserable season followed. During a repair his game queue was destroyed and Alain Robidoux did not win a single match this season. It fell back to 36th place in the world rankings. The following year his losing streak continued and he fell in the world rankings for the 1999/2000 season to position 49. He tried a new beginning, but his successes remained modest. He fell to 78th place in the ranking. He ended his snooker career in 2002 quite frustrated.

Alain Robidoux is now mainly active in the snooker trick shot circuit. In his snooker career he reached a cash prize of £ 662,744 by the end of the 2001/02 season .

Anecdotes

• At the 1996 World Cup, Alain Robidoux played against Ronnie O'Sullivan. During the match, O'Sullivan switched from right to left hand and won safely. Robidoux took this as an insult and refused the usual handshake at the end of the match. Then O'Sullivan, who has mastered the two-handed game to perfection and can often avoid the use of an auxiliary cue, said in an interview that the left hand would be enough for Robidoux.

• When Alain Robidoux wanted to have his cue made by a Canadian craftsman repaired by him in 1997, he discovered a logo of the English billiard manufacturer Riley on the cue and then smashed it into many individual parts. After that, Alain Robidoux was unable to keep up with the snooker elite and so he ended his career in frustration in 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Player Profile - Alain Robidoux ( Memento from January 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Profile of Alain Robidoux on CueTracker (as of January 29, 2019)

Web links

• Profile of Alain Robidoux at CueTracker
• Alain Robidoux in the snooker Database (English)