Alwyn Lloyd

Alwyn Lloyd
birthday	circa 1937
date of death	May 8, 2006
Place of death	Llantrisant
nationality	Wales
Prize money	50 pounds
Highest break	104 ( Amateur World Cup 1974 )
Century Breaks	1
Success at amateur tournaments
World championships	-
National championships	3 × (1973, 1974, 1978)
Best results
World championships	3 × quarter-finals
Professional tournaments	1 × round of the last 24

Alwyn Lloyd (* approx. 1937 ; † May 8, 2006 in Llantrisant ) was a Welsh snooker player who won the Welsh snooker championship three times in the 1970s .

Career

Alwyn Lloyd was born around 1937 and began playing snooker at the age of twelve. In the following years he trained in a club in Phillipstown , but then moved to the club of Abertysswg . After a long time he played for a few years in the Merthyr Labor Club .

Lloyd first made a name for himself when he reached the quarter-finals of the Welsh Championship in 1971. A year later he took part in the amateur world championship , but was eliminated in the play-offs. In 1973 he took part unsuccessfully in the professional tournament Norwich Union Open and came a round at the Welsh championship, qualified in this with a victory over Terry Parsons for the final and was in this thanks to an 8: 6 win over Geoff Thomas Welsh Master. The next year he defeated Doug Mountjoy on his way to the final and was finally able to defend his title again against Geoff Thomas.

In the same year Lloyd took part again in the amateur world championship and this time survived the group stage without defeat, but lost in the quarterfinals to Geoff Thomas. At that time, Lloyd could have become a professional player at any time. But even if he had the quality, he decided not to pursue a professional career because of the uncertainties that this created and continued to work in the mining industry . It was not until two years later that he attracted attention again when he defeated Steve Newbury and Colin Roscoe among others at the Welsh championship, but was stopped in the final by Doug Mountjoy. In 1978 he was again in the final and this time defeated Steve Newbury to become Welsh champion for the third time. In the same year Lloyd took part in the amateur world championship for the third time and survived despite a loss to Shyam Shroff again the group stage, but finally lost in the quarterfinals against Joe Johnson .

Again, Lloyd only made a name for himself after two years when he lost the final of the Welsh Championship to Steve Newbury in 1980. After he lost again in the quarterfinals in his fourth amateur world championship in the same year - this time against Arvind Savur - he reached the semi-finals again in Wales in 1981, but had to admit defeat to Colin Roscoe. In 1990 he had a minor success when he reached the round of 32 at the Welsh Championship.

Apart from that, Lloyd had won numerous other titles during his career, including the Welsh championship in doubles with Ron Jones . In the last years of his life, Lloyd was suffering from health problems, he had, for example, after a heart attack a bypass must undergo operation. He died on May 8, 2006 at the age of 69 at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant , leaving behind his wife and three children. He was buried in Abertysswg. A year after his death, a memorial tournament was held in Wales in honor of him and Terry Parsons .

successes

output	year	competition	Final opponent	Result
Amateur tournaments
winner	1973	Welsh Snooker Championship	Geoff Thomas	8: 6
winner	1974	Welsh Snooker Championship	Geoff Thomas	8: 5
Second	1976	Welsh Snooker Championship	Doug Mountjoy	6: 8
winner	1978	Welsh Snooker Championship	Steve Newbury	8: 4
Second	1980	Welsh Snooker Championship	Steve Newbury	6: 8

Web links

• Profile of Alwyn Lloyd on CueTracker
• Lloyd's profile at the Global Snooker Center (archived)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Snooker: Welsh game mourns Alwyn. Wales Online, May 11, 2006, accessed June 28, 2020 .  
2. ↑ Ron Florax: Alwyn Lloyd - Season 1970-1971 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on August 26, 2020 .  
3. ^ ^{A b} Ron Florax: Alwyn Lloyd - Season 1972-1973 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 28, 2020 .  
4. ↑ Ron Florax: Alwyn Lloyd - Season 1973-1974 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 28, 2020 .  
5. ↑ Ron Florax: Alwyn Lloyd - Season 1973-1974 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 28, 2020 .  
6. ↑ Ron Florax: Alwyn Lloyd - Season 1974-1975 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 28, 2020 .  
7. ↑ Ron Florax: Alwyn Lloyd - Season 1975-1976 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 28, 2020 .  
8. ↑ Ron Florax: Alwyn Lloyd - Season 1977-1978 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 28, 2020 .  
9. ↑ Ron Florax: Alwyn Lloyd - Season 1978-1979 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 28, 2020 .  
10. ↑ Ron Florax: Alwyn Lloyd - Season 1979-1980 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 28, 2020 .  
11. ↑ Ron Florax: Alwyn Lloyd - Season 1980-1981 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 28, 2020 .  
12. ↑ Ron Florax: Alwyn Lloyd - Season 1989-1990 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed June 28, 2020 .  
13. ↑ Snooker: Tribute Tourney. Wales Online, April 26, 2007, accessed June 28, 2020 .