Ashley Wright
| Ashley Wright | |
|---|---|
| birthday | 7th April 1987 (age 33) |
| nationality |
 England
|
| professional | 2007/08 |
| Prize money | 4,654 pounds |
| Highest break | 127 |
| Century Breaks | 7th |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | - |
| Ranking tournament victories | - |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
| World rankings | |
| Highest WRL place | - |
Ashley Wright (born April 7, 1987 ) is an English snooker player from Grimsby . In the 2007/08 season he was a professional player on the Snooker Main Tour for a year .
Career
Ashley Wright began playing snooker at the age of 10 and trained with Stuart Carrington, also from Grimsby , from an early age . After some success in his youth, he tried to qualify for the professional tour at the age of 19 through the Pontin's International Open Series (PIOS). He improved slowly in the first tournaments and in the fifth tournament he was then for the first time in the final, where he lost 3: 6 to Kurt Maflin . In the next tournament he was back in the final, this time Jamie O'Neill was his conqueror. In the last two tournaments, however, he lost very early and so he only reached 9th place overall. Fortunately, Maflin was also amateur world champion this year and was thus qualified and Wright was thus promoted to one of the 8 free Main Tour- Places on.
The 2007/08 professional season began with two opening defeats against strong opponents. At the Grand Prix , he managed just one group stage win against Jamie Burnett . So there were only 4 tournaments left, but he couldn't convince either. Only the result at the UK Championship was close , where he lost 8: 9 to Liang Wenbo . The Chinese was his opening opponent three times in the season and he was defeated three times. But with that he immediately lost his professional status and had to play the PIOS tour again the next year. This time, however, he was far less successful than the first time. It was not until the seventh tournament that he won more than two games. But in the quarterfinals he was eliminated against Alfie Burden with 0: 5 and in the last tournament he lost in the second round to Kurt Maflin with 0: 4.
Then he left snooker by the wayside and created a professional basis for himself. It was not until the 2011/12 season , after the Players Tour Championship had previously been introduced for professionals and amateurs and he had also found a sponsor, that he decided to make a second attempt at professional snooker. In the first 7 tournaments of the Players Tour Championship 2011/12 he made it to the main round five times through the amateur qualification, but then lost each time against a professional. When the eighth tournament in Ireland he managed a 4: 0 victory over Marcus Campbell and a 4: 1 over passakorn suwannawat and only the world champion John Higgins stopped him with 4: 2 in the round of the last 32. Also in the following Antwerp Open lost he against Higgins after previously beating another pro with Ryan Day . In the tour standings he was only 13th among the amateurs and couldn't qualify. That's why he took part in the Q School at the end of the season. In the first tournament he was eliminated from Nick Jennings in the semifinals of his group. In the remaining two tournaments he failed in the quarterfinals to Robbie Williams and Michael Wasley . Then he gave up his professional ambitions at the age of 25.
swell
- ↑ a b c Profile of Ashley Wright on CueTracker (as of January 21, 2018)
- ^ Gary Moss: 60 seconds with ... Ashley Wright. On Cue (blog), October 28, 2011, accessed January 21, 2018 .
Web links
- Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)
- Entry in the Snooker Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wright, Ashley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English snooker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1987 |