Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins | |
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birthday | 23rd April 1979 (age 41) |
nationality | 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
- Australian Goldfields Open - 2012
- Players Tour Championship Grand Finals - 2014
- World Grand Prix - 2017
PTC tournaments (minor ranking tournaments)
Invitation tournaments
Maximum breaks
- PTC Event 3 2010 in the round of last 32 against James McGouran
- Championship League 2015 in Group 1 against Stephen Maguire
- UK Championship 2019 in the Round of 128 against Gerard Greene
Web links
- Player profile on worldsnooker.com (English)
- Barry Hawkins in the Snooker Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Barry Hawkins. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , January 11, 2015, accessed August 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Profile of Barry Hawkins at CueTracker (as of: August 18, 2018)
- ^ Century Frequency for Barry Hawkins. All-time. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed November 28, 2019 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2001 LG Cup. Cuetracker, accessed October 21, 2015 .
- ↑ 2003 World Championship. Cuetracker, accessed October 21, 2015 .
- ↑ 2005 Welsh Open. Cuetracker, accessed October 21, 2015 .
- ↑ 2007 China Open. Cuetracker, accessed October 21, 2015 .
- ↑ 2010 Pro Challenge Series - Event 5th Cuetracker, accessed October 21, 2015 .
- ^ Hawkins Rules In Riga. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , August 2, 2015, accessed August 12, 2015 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hawkins, Barry |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English snooker player |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1979 |