Anthony Davies

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Anthony Davies
birthday 6th December 1969 (age 50)
nationality WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wales
professional 1991-2005
Prize money £ 320,490
Highest break 141
Century Breaks 22nd
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 26 (2002/03)

Anthony Davies (born December 6, 1969 ) is a Welsh snooker player from Barry . From 1991 to 2005 he spent 14 years on the professional tour .

Career

First years of success

Like many other snooker players, Anthony Davies went on the professional tour with the opening of the major tournaments for everyone in the 1991/92 season . In his second tournament, the Grand Prix , he was among the bottom 128, even though he benefited from the failure of an opponent. He confirmed his quality at the UK Championship , where he not only beat two long-time professionals with Ray Edmonds and Jack McLaughlin , but also made it into the bottom 32 with a 9-3 win over number 16 in the world rankings Tony Knowles . There he was defeated by his compatriot Darren Morgan . In the other tournaments he got quite far in the preliminary rounds, but only at the Asian Open he came back to the bottom 96. His first ranking position was 94th place and he therefore only had to play one preliminary round in the second year. In one tournament of the Strachan Challenge he reached the last 32 and in another even the round of 16, but these were only small tournaments with little value for the ranking list. After all, he beat well-known players from the Top 32 with Cliff Wilson and Wayne Jones . In the major tournaments he reached the bottom 64 three times. In 1993/94 he placed in the bottom 32 at the Grand Prix and the International Open . At the World Championship at the end of the season he also reached the higher rounds and defeated ex-world champion Joe Johnson 10: 9 among the last 48 . This was the first time he made it into the main tournament at the Crucible Theater . There he lost 7:10 to Neal Foulds . Although he had beaten top 32 players like Johnson, Mark Johnston-Allen and Terry Murphy that season, he was only 64th in the two-year list of the world rankings.

The following year he repeated his main tournament entry at the World Cup by a 10-2 victory over another former world champion, Dennis Taylor . But he also lost his second match at the Crucible to Darren Morgan. In addition, he reached two main tournaments at the European Open and the Thailand Open . While he was among the last 32 in the first tournament, he lost in the second against a wildcard player in the intermediate round . At the Thailand Classic at the beginning of the next season he was again among the bottom 32. And at the European Open 1996 he achieved his best tournament result ever. With victories among others over Joe Johnson and the world number 5. James Wattana he reached the quarterfinals. Joe Swail then prevented any further advance. In other tournaments such as the World Cup, he also made it into the second or third round and achieved a provisional top spot with 37th place in the 1996 ranking.

Setbacks and career highlights

In the 1996/97 season , the upward trend did not continue; on the contrary, his weakest year followed with only two wins and one crash in 61st place. But he was lucky that he was just qualified for the Main Tour , the from 1997 only consisted of a limited number of players. But another bad year followed, in which he did not get past the second round in the professional tournaments and fell back to 85th place. After that he had the thought of stopping and had even applied to the South Wales police, but made one more attempt. So at the beginning of the 1998/99 season he played the first tournament of the second-rate UK Tour and reached the final there, which he lost just 5: 6 against Alfie Burden . But it took until the last third of the season before he got back to his old form and first reached the last 32 at the China International and then at the British Open . He continued that into the next season. At the Benson & Hedges Championship , which did not count for the ranking, he reached the round of 16 and at the China Open he reached the main tournament with a victory over top 20 player Tony Drago . At the Thailand Masters he wrestled the number 8 in the world rankings Alan McManus 5: 4 in the first main round and made his second-best career result in a ranking tournament by reaching the last sixteen. Then he offered Dominic Dale great resistance in his 4-5 defeat. At the world championship he could not crown the season because he lost the game for the Crucible to Dave Harold, but with 40th place in the world rankings he had almost reached his old level again.

The 2000/01 season lacked the outstanding result, but with three more top 32 results in ranked tournaments and on the other hand only one defeat at the beginning, he consolidated his position. And 2001/02 was followed by its most successful season. At the British Open he beat Stephen Hendry , then number 5 in the world, 5-1 and finished in the round of 16. He also achieved this result at the Benson & Hedges Championship. In 4 of the next 5 tournaments he was among the last 32. And at the World Championship he reached the main tournament for the third time with a 10: 9 over Marcus Campbell . There he then managed his only Crucible victory with 10: 7 over Alan McManus, before the third Scot Stephen Hendry clearly retaliated 13: 3 for the defeat at the beginning of the season in the round of 16. In 2002 Davies finished 26th, his best career placement.

Due to his position, he was always automatically set for the round of the last 48 according to the tournament mode at that time. But that also meant that he got fewer and fewer games and although he reached the bottom 32 three times in 2002/03, three victories were enough for him in the entire season. But it also meant he was still in 54th place after the 2003/04 season, despite not winning a single game. However, he had to enter the tournaments two rounds earlier. In 2004/05 he made it into the bottom 64, despite the simpler starting situation with 3 wins, only three times. He fell to 76th place in the world rankings and thus lost his professional status after 14 years without interruption. He ended his professional career at the age of 35.

Anthony Davies continued to be successful as a snooker trainer and also played individual tournaments. At the amateur world championship in 2007 he reached the quarter-finals. In 2013 the Welshman once again took part in the open Players Tour Championship as an amateur . At the Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup he survived the amateur qualification and defeated two top 48 players with Anthony McGill and Nigel Bond before he was eliminated in the round of 32.

successes

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Anthony Davies on CueTracker (as of March 17, 2018)
  2. ↑ Charles Whebell: Snooker: Hendry goes out after 'worst ever' performance. The Telegraph, October 1, 2001, accessed March 17, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Davies, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION welsh snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH 6th December 1969