Alex Davies

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Alex Davies
Alex Davies
birthday 27th July 1987 (age 33)
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 2007/08, 2013–2015
Prize money £ 34,161
Highest break 137 ( Alex Higgins International Trophy 2011 )
Century Breaks 14th
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 74 (September – November 2014)

Alex Davies (born July 27, 1987 in Essex ) is an English snooker player from Clacton-on-Sea or Holland-on-Sea on the northeast coast of England.

Career

Youth successes and first year as a professional

Alex Davies followed his four year older brother Adam , who also made it to professional snooker. In 2001 Alex was in the final of the English U14 championship and a year later at the age of 15 he took part in the English amateur championship for the first time. With 0: 4 he was eliminated against Martin Gould . In 2003 they met again and Davies won 4-3. Then he reached the final and defeated Ben Woollaston 8: 7. At the age of 16 he was the youngest English champion to date. He then took part in international amateur tournaments in the same year and reached the round of 16 at the U21 World Cup in New Zealand. He lost against the eventual junior world champion Neil Robertson 4: 5.

After that he limited himself to tournaments in England and Wales and tried to get a place on the professional tour via the PIOS tournaments . In the 2006/07 season he was in the final of one of the 8 tournaments, in another in the semifinals and overall he collected just enough points to reach the 8th of 8 qualifying places in the tour standings. In the 2007/08 season he was allowed to take part in professional tournaments and achieved his first victories in the group stage at the Grand Prix against Mark Davis and Jimmy Robertson, among others . However, he lost the majority of his games and was eliminated. After all, he won at the Welsh Open against Michael White and at the China Open against Rodney Goggins and reached round 2. At the World Cup , he defeated Steve Mifsud with 10: 2 and then narrowly defeated Ian Preece with 9:10. Since he was usually eliminated in the first round, the rating points were not enough to stay on the professional tour.

Q School and tour return

He turned to professional life and became a track worker for the railway. In addition, he tried to get back the professional status through the PIOS tournaments in the following two years, but remained far behind the earlier results. He reached a quarter-finals only once and ended the 2010 season in 27th place overall. Starting in 2010, the Players Tour Championship (PTC) was introduced with a series of Pro-Am tournaments for professionals and amateurs in which he participated. He reached the main tournament several times, but only in the fourth tournament in 2010 he reached round 2, but benefited from 2 rejections. He tried to qualify for the Main Tour via the newly introduced Q School . In the third tournament in 2011 , he missed the playoff by a 2-4 loss to Adam Duffy . The following year he was eliminated early in all tournaments. In 2013 he made it to the group final at the first tournament and with a clear 4-1 win over Mitchell Travis he qualified for the professional tour for the second time, this time for two seasons.

In the 2013/14 season he had his first successes at the Yixing Open , a PTC tournament. He beat Jamie Jones and Dominic Dale , among others, and made it to the round of 16. Three more times he came in the last 32 in the small tournaments, which did not bring him many world ranking points. In the major ranking tournaments, he did not get past the second round, but managed to win an opening victory five times. He defeated the world number four Shaun Murphy at the Wuxi Classic with 5: 1 and other top 64 players in other tournaments. The second year he started at number 74 with good prospects of establishing himself in the top 64. But first he lost all opening matches. It wasn't until the Shanghai Masters that he achieved his first victories and made it through to the fourth qualifying round. Then there were again 2 PTC tournaments in which he came in the last 32. In all other tournaments he lost the first game and so he was under pressure to succeed in the last two tournaments of the season. At the China Open he defeated Tom Ford, a top 32 player, but then lost 5-0 in the wildcard round in Beijing against 17-year-old Chinese amateur Zhao Xintong . At the World Cup he also reached round 2 with a victory over Michael Georgiou , but a 2:10 defeat after 2-2 intermediate result against Ryan Day then ended his professional career again.

In the following years he tried to get a tour ticket exclusively through the Q School. He came very close to that in the second tournament in 2017 , when he reached the playoff against Welsh Duane Jones , but lost it 2: 4. Most of the time he didn't get past the third round and has already lost his opening game several times.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments (minor ranking tournaments):

Qualifying tournaments:

Amateur tournaments:

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Alex Davies on CueTracker (as of May 25, 2018)
  2. ↑ 2011 PTC - Event 8 - Tournament Ranking . CueTracker - Snooker Database. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ World Rankings after the Shanghai Masters 2014 (PDF) In: World Snooker . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . September 15, 2014. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014. Retrieved on February 24, 2015.
  4. ↑ World Rankings after the Bulgarian Open 2014 (ET3) (PDF) In: World Snooker . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . October 6, 2014. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved on February 24, 2015.
  5. ↑ World Rankings after the Haining Open 2014 (AT2) (PDF) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . October 28, 2014. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014. Retrieved on February 24, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b Alex Davies quits job on railway to join snooker tour , BBC Sport, July 17, 2013.
  7. ↑ Clive Everton: Ronnie sees red on yellow . The Guardian . May 12, 2003. Retrieved May 21, 2008.
  8. ↑ Pontin's International Open Series 2006/2007 ( Memento from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Player profile in the Global Snooker Center. European Billiards & Snooker Association , archived from the original on June 30, 2008 ; accessed on May 25, 2018 .
  10. ↑ PIOS ranking list 2009/10 at global-snooker.com ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Qualifying School - Event One (2013) . Snooker.org. Retrieved May 20, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Davies, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Essex , England