Alfred Burden

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Alfred Burden
Alfred Burden
birthday 14th December 1976 (age 43)
nationality EnglandEngland England
Nickname (s) Alfie
professional 1994–2008, since 2010
Prize money £ 521,858 (as of August 30, 2020)
Highest break 147 ( English Open 2016 )
Century Breaks 118 (as of August 30, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 38 ( 01/02 - 02/03 )
Current WRL location 74 (as of August 17, 2020)
Alfie Burden, 2015

Alfred "Alfie" Burden (born December 14, 1976 in Paddington , London ) is an English snooker player .

Career

In his youth, Burden was considered a promising soccer talent. He played for Arsenal and Swindon Town , among others . However, due to a serious leg injury, he had to give up his football career early.

In snooker, Burden took part for the first time in the 1994/95 season in the qualifications for the ranking tournaments of the professionals. During the first three years he achieved only a few victories until he achieved the greatest success of his career so far in the 1997/98 season : with victories at the Grand Prix over Graeme Dott , Gary Wilkinson and Nigel Bond , he achieved that for the first and so far only time Round of 16 of a ranking tournament. In the same season he was also able to qualify for the final round of the 1998 World Snooker Championship. In the round of the last 32 he was defeated by Tony Drago with 8:10.

Until the 2001/02 season he was able to steadily improve his position in the world rankings to 38th place. In the following years, however, he lost too many of his opening games in ranked tournaments, so that he finally lost his Main Tour status at the end of the 2007/08 season .

The following season Burden took part (now as an amateur) in the Pontin's International Open Series . Although he reached a final and a semi-finals, he did not end up among the top eight players to qualify for the following Main Tour season. During this time he also got two maximum breaks .

By winning the IBSF World Snooker Championship in 2009 (10: 8 in the final against Igor Figueiredo ) Burden secured his return to the Main Tour for the 2010/11 season . During the Suphan Buri Cup he also achieved his third maximum break in the same year.

After his return to the Main Tour, he has not yet been able to qualify for the round of 32 at any ranking tournament: at the Shanghai Masters 2010 , the China Open 2011 and the Haikou World Open 2012 , he made it to the round of 48 at least He achieved a respectable success in the 2010/11 PTC series : In three tournaments he was able to make it to the round of 16. He defeated players such as Martin Gould and Andrew Higginson, among others .

In October 2016 he achieved a maximum break in a professional tournament for the first time. He played the 147-point series at the English Open in the sixth frame of his first round match against Daniel Wells .

Private

Burden currently lives in Hatfield , Herts with his two children, Bow and Lene . A training partner and good friend is professional snooker Jimmy White .

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Profile of Alfie Burden on CueTracker (as of August 17, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b player profile ( memento from October 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) global-snooker.com
  3. ↑ Player profile ( memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) worldsnooker.com
personal data
SURNAME Burden, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burden, Alfie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Paddington (London)