Allan Taylor (snooker player)
| Allan Taylor | |
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| birthday | 28th November 1984 (age 35) |
| nationality |
 England
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| Nickname (s) | The Albino Assassin Pretzels |
| professional | 2013–2019, from 2020 |
| Prize money | 75.179 |
| Highest break | 145 ( World Cup qualification 2020 ) |
| Century Breaks | 15th |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | - |
| Ranking tournament victories | - |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
| World rankings | |
| Highest WRL place | 75 ( October – November 2018 ) |
Allan Taylor (born November 28, 1984 ) is an English snooker player .
Career
To make the leap to the pros on the Main Tour , Taylor took part in the tournaments of the Pontin's International Open Series between 2005 and 2010 . He made it to the quarterfinals three times in one of the individual tournaments: During the 2007/08 season he was defeated by Jamie Jones , in 2008/09 Joe Jogia and 2009/10 Gary Wilson . In the last PIOS season he achieved 18th place in the overall ranking.
In the 2010/11 season , the Q School replaced the PIOS series as a qualifying tournament series for amateurs: Taylor only failed once in 2011 in the final (against David Gilbert ) of his group. In 2012 a semi-final against Michael Wasley was his best result. Due to his good results during the Q School 2012 he was allowed to take part in the Australian Goldfields Open 2012 as an amateur , but failed in the first qualifying round with 0: 5 to Thepchaiya Un-Nooh .
Taylor also tried to compete with the professional players of the Main Tour in the tournaments of the 2010/11 to 2012/13 seasons of the Players Tour Championship . During PTC Event 5 (2010/11) and PTC Event 1 (2012/13) , he achieved first respectable successes in the Pro-Am area when he reached the round of 16. He defeated professional players such as Liu Chuang and Mark Davis . As one of the top eight amateur players during the 2012/13 PTC season , Taylor secured a two-year tour ticket for the 2013/14 and 2014/15 snooker seasons .
His professional career began with a series of defeats. Only in qualifying for the Shanghai Masters 2013 did he win his first win against Paul Davison . But there was only one more PTC success and it got stuck at the lower end of the world rankings. He had his first better result at the 2014 Australian Open , where he advanced to the third qualifying round. He also won two wins at the Lisbon Open , one of them against Luca Brecel . A few more individual victories, especially at PTC tournaments, never brought him higher than 100th place in the world rankings, but he reached 6th place in the PTC Order of Merit and thus again the Main Tour qualification after the first two years. The third year began with a further increase at the Australian Open , after three wins he missed his first main tournament by just one match. The rest of the season was disappointing again and there was only one more victory. It wasn't until the 2016/17 season that there were more regular successes. He defeated players like Sam Baird , Li Hang and at the China Open Ken Doherty . Still, the round of 32 at the Gibraltar Open was his best result of the season and 78th place was his best placement. This was the second time that he dropped out of the Main Tour.
Taylor had to go back to the Q School to keep his professional status. At the first tournament he reached his group final. In the playoff between the ex-professionals against Sean O'Sullivan , he clearly won 4-0 and was still on the main tour until 2019. He started the 2017/18 season with two wins at the China Championship . He confirmed his best tournament result so far at a major tournament.
Web links
- Entry at World Snooker (English)
- Interview in the snookerback blog
- Interview on Snookerisland
- Tournament statistics at snooker.org
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- ↑ a b c Profile of Allan Taylor on CueTracker (as of September 14, 2019)
- ↑ Allan Taylor. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , accessed December 23, 2019 .
- ↑ PIOS ranking list 2009/10 ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (global-snooker.com)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Taylor, Allan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pretzels (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English snooker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | England |