Brandon Sargeant

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Brandon Sargeant
birthday 28th June 1997 (age 23)
place of birth Stoke-on-Trent
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional since 2019
Prize money £ 11,525 (as of August 31, 2020)
Highest break 116 ( WM 2019 , Q)
Century Breaks 4 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 100 ( July-August 2019 )
Current WRL location 119 (as of August 17, 2020)
Best results
Ranked tournaments Last 32 ( Gibraltar Open 2018 )

Brandon Sargeant (born June 28, 1997 in Stoke-on-Trent ) is an English snooker player from Staffordshire . In 2019 he qualified for the professional tour .

Career

Brandon Sargeant started playing pool tables when he was four and started snooker when he was nine. He got training at an early age and was very successful on the English junior tour, which he won twice. In 2015 he took part in international junior championships for the first time. At the U21 World Cup he lost in the round of 16 against the eventual finalist Jamie Clarke , at the following European Championship he himself was in the final and lost to Josh Boileau .

Previously, at the age of 15, he had already registered for the Players Tour Championship (PTC), a tournament series of the professional tour that was also open to amateurs. In the first year he lost his opening game in all four English tournaments. The following year he got into the third amateur round at the Bluebell Wood Open . In the spring of 2014, he took part in the Q School , with which one could qualify for the professional tour. Although he did not make it through the quarter-finals in one of the eight groups ( 2014 tournament 1 ), he was still considered as a successor for remaining free places in two professional tournaments and even received a wildcard for the World Cup qualification . At the PTC tournaments, he made it into the main tournament at both the Bulgarian Open and the Ruhr Open . Although he lost all meetings with professional players, he did well. The next Q School was not more successful either, at the Gibraltar Open 2015 he came back to the main tournament and defeated David Gilbert for the first time a professional 4-2. In his second World Cup appearance , he held up against former world champion Graeme Dott up to 7: 7 and lost just 8:10.

In the Q School 2016 he reached the quarter-finals twice and thus one of the top places in the Order of Merit, the tournament ranking. As a result, he was regularly a successor at the professional tournaments. In 12 tournaments he competed against professionals, but did not succeed in a second victory. The Q School 2017 was disappointing with two opening defeats and so in the 2017/18 season he only had the two Pro-Am tournaments of the Main Tour that were left over from the PTC Tour. Both times he reached the main round, at the Gibraltar Open he then had a bye, then won against another remaining amateur and made it into the bottom 32 for the first time, where he was only slightly defeated 3: 4 by Fang Xiongman . The Q School 2018 ended again in the quarter-finals, but Sargeant qualified for the new Challenge Tour , a tournament series for amateurs to qualify for the Main Tour. He won the first tournament, finished second and reached the semi-finals four more times. Thereby he won the tour rankings, got professional status at the age of 21 and the right to start for the seasons 2019/20 and 2020/21 on the main tour. Shortly thereafter, he won the English Amateur Championship with a 10-7 win over Jamie O'Neill .

successes

Amateur tournament:

Qualification tournament:

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  1. ↑ Brandon Sargeant's profile on CueTracker (as of July 7, 2019)
  2. ↑ An Interview with Brandon Sargeant. English Association of Snooker & Billiards, accessed June 3, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sargeant, Brandon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Stoke-on-Trent , England