Allister Carter

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Allister Carter
Allister Carter
birthday 25th July 1979 (age 41)
place of birth Colchester
nationality EnglandEngland England
Nickname (s) The captain
professional since 1996
Prize money £ 2,638,311 (as of August 27, 2020)
Highest break 147 (2 ×)
Century Breaks 309 (as of August 27, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories 4th
Minor tournament victories 1
World rankings
Highest WRL place 2 (Sep. and Oct. 2010)
Current WRL location 19 (as of August 17, 2020)
Allister Carter at the German Masters 2013 .

Allister "Ali" Carter (born July 25, 1979 in Colchester , Essex ) is an English snooker player . His nickname The Captain refers to the fact that Carter is in possession of a valid commercial pilot license .

Career

First professional years

Carter made his professional debut in 1996. He first attracted attention when he reached the semi-finals of the Grand Prix in Preston in 1999 . His biggest success before 2006 was winning the 1999 Benson & Hedges Championship , a qualifying tournament for the Masters .

Carter was named WPBSA Newcomer of the Year for the 1999/2000 season .

Season 2006/2007 to 2008/2009

At the Snooker World Championship in 2007 he reached the quarterfinals and was defeated there by Mark Selby with 12:13 frames . During this World Cup he played his highest break to date with a streak of 144 points.

At the Snooker World Cup in 2008 , he managed his first official maximum break in the quarter-finals against Peter Ebdon on April 29th . For the first time in the history of snooker, two maximum breaks were played in the finals of a tournament ( Ronnie O'Sullivan succeeded the first the day before), so the prize awarded for a maximum had to be shared. Carter reached there for the first time the final of a world ranking tournament, in which he was defeated by O'Sullivan with 8:18. After this tournament Carter was listed among the 8 best in the official world rankings for the first time.

At the Northern Ireland Trophy Carter lost again in the semi-finals in 2008 to Ronnie O'Sullivan (5-6).

2009/2010 season

In the semi-finals of the UK Championship he lost to Marco Fu 7: 9. At the Welsh Open he moved into the finals, where he won his first title in a world ranking tournament with a 9: 5 win over Joe Swail .

In December 2009 he played his 100th Century Break in the quarterfinals of the UK Championship . Carter was only the 32nd player to make a hundred Centuries. At the Welsh Open he was again in the final, but could not defend his title against John Higgins . He reached the semifinals at the World Cup as well as at the China Open . He finished the season in fourth place in the world.

2010/2011 season

At the first ranking tournament of the 2010/11 season , the Shanghai Masters , he first played his way to the quarterfinals, where he almost lost to Welshman Matthew Stevens . However, he was able to turn a 1: 4 deficit to a 5: 4 success and win his second title on the Main Tour with wins over Mark Selby and Jamie Burnett . This pushed him up to second place in the world rankings.

Season 2011/12 to 2015/16

At the Snooker World Championship in 2012 Carter reached the final, in which he again lost to O'Sullivan, this time with 11:18.

In February 2013 he triumphed at the German Masters in Berlin with a 9: 6 final victory over Marco Fu .

In October 2014 he won the General Cup by beating compatriot Shaun Murphy 7-6 in the final .

In August 2015 he defeated Shaun Murphy 4-3 in the final of the Paul Hunter Classic , winning a PTC tournament for the first time .

In July 2016, Ali Carter beat Joe Perry in the final of the Hanteng Auto World Open in Yushan, China , 10: 8, winning the World Open for the first time.

Season 2017/18

At the China Championship 2017 he qualified for the first main round with a 5-2 win against Ross Muir . There he started a triumphant advance: He defeated Aditya Mehta (5: 4), David Grace (5: 4), Mark Davis (5: 1) and the Irish Fergal O'Brien (5: 2). Carter was only eliminated in the semifinals with a 4-6 against Shaun Murphy.

At the Indian Open he was eliminated in qualifying against Ken Doherty , at the World Open he did not appear. He was also eliminated in qualifying at the European Masters , this time with 1: 4 against Mei Xiwen . At the English Open 2017 he was eliminated in the second main round 3: 4 against James Wattana after he had defeated Oliver Lines 4: 1.

At the International Championship he won 6-0 in qualifying against Jamie Curtis-Barrett , then defeated Andrew Higginson (6: 3), Stephen Maguire (6: 1) and Shaun Murphy (6: 2) and only just barely lost in the quarter-finals 5: 6 against Martin Gould . He started the subsequent Shanghai Masters with a 5-4 win over Sam Craigie , through which he qualified for the first main round. There he defeated Stuart Carrington 5: 3, then eliminated 4: 5 against Stephen Maguire.

During the season, Carter slipped to 15th place in the world rankings . But this was enough for a direct qualification for the Snooker World Championship 2018 , where he defeated Graeme Dott 10: 8 in the first round . In the second round he surprisingly defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 13: 9 and made it to the quarter-finals. There he lost 8:13 against eventual world champion Mark Williams .

Personal

Diseases

In 2003 Ali Carter was diagnosed with Crohn's disease .

On July 1, 2013, it was announced that he had been diagnosed with testicular cancer. But it is now considered cured again.

He was diagnosed with lung cancer in late May 2014 and underwent chemotherapy . Carter beat lung cancer. The doctors reportedly told him this on December 29, 2014.

Familiar

His girlfriend Sarah gave birth to a son on October 1, 2009.

Tournament victories

Allister Carter with the trophy for the winner of the German Masters 2013 and his girlfriend

Ranked tournaments

Other tournaments (selection)

Web links

Commons : Allister Carter  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile of Ali Carter on CueTracker (as of August 18, 2018)
  2. ↑ Snooker Info - 100Centuries (as of August 17, 2018)
  3. ↑ eurosport.de
  4. ↑ Carter Diagnosed With Cancer ( English ) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . July 1, 2013. Accessed July 1, 2013.
  5. ^ Ali Carter: Snooker player diagnosed with lung cancer ( English ) In: BBC Sport . May 24, 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
  6. ^ Ali Carter Biography. FrostSnow, March 6, 2016 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Carter, Allister
ALTERNATIVE NAMES The captain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Colchester , Essex