Barry Hawkins

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Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins
birthday 23rd April 1979 (age 41)
nationality EnglandEngland England
Nickname (s) The Hawk
professional 1996/97, 1998/99, since 2000
Prize money £ 2,674,172 (As of August 29, 2020)
Highest break 147 (3 ×)
Century Breaks 345 (as of August 29, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories 3
Minor tournament victories 1
World rankings
Highest WRL place 4 (March, March-May, June-July 2014)
Current WRL location 17 (as of August 17, 2020)

Barry Hawkins (born April 23, 1979 ) is an English snooker player from Beckenham , London Borough of Bromley .

Career

Barry Hawkins first became a Main Tour professional in 1996. After he had only reached the round of 128 at the International Open and the Thailand Open , he lost the Main Tour place at the end of the 1996/97 season . For the 1998/99 season he turned pro again, but lost the place again at the end of the season. With a tournament win and two other runners-up in the UK Tour 1999/2000 he made it back on the main tour. In the 2000/01 season Hawkins reached the round of 16 of the Benson & Hedges Championship and the round of 64 at the British Open and the UK Championship . At the 2001 World Cup , he made it to the round of 96. In October 2001, he reached the quarter-finals of a world ranking tournament at the LG Cup for the first time and was eliminated from Joe Swail .

In 2002 he made it to the round of 16 at the Scottish Open, to the round of 80 at the World Cup and to the semi-finals at the Benson & Hedges Championship. At the 2003 World Cup , with a 7:10 defeat against Chris Small in the round of the last 48, he just barely missed the finals. At the 2003 LG Cup, Hawkins made it into the second round of a world ranking tournament for the third time. In the 2004/05 season he reached the top 32 of the world snooker rankings after making it into the quarter-finals at the British Open , the second round at the UK Championship and the first time in the semi-finals of a ranking tournament at the Welsh Open , but with 4: 6 lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan .

The following season he reached the semifinals at the Grand Prix and the Welsh Open and qualified for the first time for the final round of the World Championship , in which he was eliminated in the first round against Ken Doherty . At the end of the season, he moved into the top 16 of the world rankings for the first time. In the 2006/07 season Hawkins initially had a bad start until he fought his way to the semi-finals of the China Open . He defeated Ken Doherty there in a gripping quarter-finals 5: 4, before he was eliminated in an exciting and curious game against Jamie Cope 5: 6. At the 2007 World Cup, he was defeated by Fergal O'Brien from Ireland just 9:10 in the round of 32 .

In September 2007 Hawkins won in the final against Kurt Maflin the Masters Qualifying Event and thus took part in the Masters for the first time in January 2008 , but was eliminated there in the wildcard round against Ryan Day . In the other tournaments of the 2007/08 season he did not get past the second round and as a result fell back to 27th place in the world rankings. In the 2008/09 season he managed at the Northern Ireland Trophy and the Bahrain Championship quarter-finals. In February 2010 he won the fifth tournament of the Pro Challenge Series. In August he played his first official maximum break at the third PTC tournament of the 2010/11 season . After he was eliminated five times in a row in the first round of the World Cup, he succeeded in 2011 with a 10: 9 win against Stephen Maguire for the first time in the round of 16, which he only narrowly lost 12:13 against Mark Allen .

In January 2012 Hawkins won the snooker shoot-out against Graeme Dott in the final . In addition, he reached the semifinals of the Championship League and two tournaments of the Players Tour Championship in the 2011/12 season . At the start of the 2012/13 season , he won his first ranking tournament, the Australian Goldfields Open . He defeated Peter Ebdon 9: 3 in the final . At the Paul Hunter Classic 2012 and the German Masters 2013 he was able to achieve two more semi-finals before he reached the final at the season highlight - the World Championship - after victories over Jack Lisowski , Mark Selby , Ding Junhui and Ricky Walden , in which he reached Ronnie O'Sullivan lost at 12:18.

In the 2013/14 season , Hawkins made it to the semifinals of the 2013 Shanghai Masters and the 2014 Welsh Open , before winning the Grand Finals of the Players Tour Championship with a 4-0 win in the final against Gerard Greene and thus on rose to fourth place in the world rankings. A few weeks later he reached the World Cup semi-finals, which he lost 7:17 to Ronnie O'Sullivan. At the start of the 2014/15 season , he made it to the semifinals of the Wuxi Classic . He then made it to the semi-finals at the Riga Open and the Lisbon Open , before playing the second maximum break of his career in the Championship League group match against Stephen Maguire in January 2015 . In May 2015 he moved into the semi-finals of the World Championship for the third time in a row, losing to Shaun Murphy with 9:17.

At the beginning of the next season he won the Riga Open with a 4-1 win in the final against Tom Ford .

At the 2017 World Cup , he made it to the semi-finals for the fourth time in five years, where he lost 8:17 to John Higgins . At the end of the season , he rose to fifth place in the world rankings, in which he had meanwhile slipped to 16th place.

Trivia

What is remarkable about Hawkins' game is that, as a left-hander, he switches to his right hand when using extension aids, which also makes it easier for him to focus, since his right eye is his target eye.

successes

Ranked tournaments

PTC tournaments (minor ranking tournaments)

Invitation tournaments

Maximum breaks

Web links

Commons : Barry Hawkins  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. Profile of Barry Hawkins at CueTracker (as of: August 18, 2018)
  3. ^ Century Frequency for Barry Hawkins. All-time. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed November 28, 2019 .
  4. World Rankings after Welsh Open 2014 (PDF; 265 kB) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . March 3, 2014. Archived from the original on December 13, 2014. Retrieved March 30, 2014.
  5. World Rankings after the Dongguan Open (AT4) 2014 (PDF; 265 kB) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . March 11, 2014. Archived from the original on December 13, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  6. World Rankings after the Players Championship 2014 (PDF; 265 kB) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . March 31, 2014. Archived from the original on May 14, 2014. Retrieved on May 13, 2014.
  7. World Rankings after the China Open 2014 (PDF; 265 kB) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . April 7, 2014. Archived from the original on December 13, 2014. Retrieved on May 13, 2014.
  8. World Rankings after the 2014 Wuxi Classic (PDF; 201 kB) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . June 30, 2014. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
  9. 2001 LG Cup. Cuetracker, accessed October 21, 2015 .
  10. 2003 World Championship. Cuetracker, accessed October 21, 2015 .
  11. 2005 Welsh Open. Cuetracker, accessed October 21, 2015 .
  12. 2007 China Open. Cuetracker, accessed October 21, 2015 .
  13. 2010 Pro Challenge Series - Event 5th Cuetracker, accessed October 21, 2015 .
  14. ^ Hawkins Rules In Riga. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , August 2, 2015, accessed August 12, 2015 .