Chris McBreen

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Chris McBreen
birthday 9th August 1972 (age 48)
nationality New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
professional 2001/02, 2008/09
Prize money 1870 £
Highest break 137
Century Breaks 2
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 95 (2009)

Christopher McBreen (born August 9, 1972 ) is a New Zealand snooker player . He is a four-time New Zealand champion and the second most successful international player in his country after Dene O'Kane . In the 2000s he played two seasons as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour .

Career

Chris McBreen didn't start playing snooker at the local pub until he was 17. At the age of 23 he represented his home country for the first time at the amateur world championships , and in 1996 he also played at the home world championships, but he was eliminated in the group stages. In the same year he became New Zealand champion for the first time . In the next few years, however, things became quieter for him, not until 2000 that he played again at the Amateur World Cup. He also won the final of the Oceania play-offs for the Continental Association's ticket for the Snooker Main Tour . So he was allowed to participate in the professional tournaments in the 2001/02 season . However, the results were disappointing. At the European Open he won his only match against the Icelander Kristján Helgason 5-2. Otherwise there were only defeats in the beginning and in the professional world championship he lost to Matthew Couch with 1:10. So he had to leave the professional tour after a year.

He signed up for the Challenge Tour and came back straight away, but in the end he only competed once and then lost his only match. He stayed at the top nationally and won his second championship title in 2002. Then it became quiet again. Another four years passed before he won his third national title in 2006, which he followed up with another one the following year. He then entered the 2008 Oceania Championship and made it to the finals. For the tournament victory, there was the start authorization for the Main Tour. Although he lost to Glen Wilkinson , but since the necessary trips to Europe were too much for the Australian, McBreen was allowed to take over the start authorization for the 2008/09 season as runner-up . In any case, the New Zealander now had his center of life in Germany and fewer problems traveling to the qualifying tournaments in Prestatyn, Welsh . However, this year too, the gap to professional snooker turned out to be too great. He lost almost all of the opening matches, and sometimes very clearly. Only in the final World Cup he won his first match 10: 8 against the Englishman Del Smith, but then retired with 2:10 against James McBain in the round of 96. 95th place in the overall standings was all he achieved, and with that he lost his professional status again. The PIOS qualification tour the following year was also unsuccessful and he broke it off prematurely.

McBreen stayed in Europe and settled in Germany, where he also married his wife in 2010. He joined the SSC Fürth in the 2nd snooker league and rose in 2012 with the club. In September 2011 he won the final of the German tournament series Grand Prix Snooker 3-2 against the then 15-year-old Lukas Kleckers from SC Essen. His highest tournament break is 145 points. He also worked as a certified WSA trainer. After a midfield place in the 2012/13 season with the SSC, he left the club. He returned to New Zealand and practiced as a lawyer in Takapuna / Auckland .

successes

Amateur tournaments:

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Chris McBreen at CueTracker (as of 2018)
  2. ↑ a b NZ Billiards & Snooker Assn. - Roll of Honor ( Memento from October 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ A b World Series: Four to watch. In: Eurosport. July 11, 2008, accessed March 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Snooker: McBreen wins national champs. In: NZ Herald. July 21, 2002, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  5. ^ Oceania Snooker Championship 2008. In: Australian Billiards & Snooker Council. 2008, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ SNOOKER: Look out for this Bay newcomer. In: NZ Herald. June 1, 2009, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Snooker club soon to be first class. In: Fürth News. March 28, 2012, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Chris McBreen - Lawyer at Holbrook Law. (No longer available online.) In: Linkedin. Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 11, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / nz.linkedin.com  

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SURNAME McBreen, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McBreen, Christopher (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1972