Craig MacGillivray

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Craig MacGillivray
birthday 3rd July 1972
nationality ScotlandScotland Scotland
professional 1991-2001
Prize money £ 61,867
Highest break 133
Century Breaks 13
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 85 (2000/01)

Craig MacGillivray (born July 3, 1972 ) is a Scottish snooker player from Edinburgh . From 1991 to 2001 he was active as a player on the professional tour for 10 years .

Career

Craig MacGillivray was a youth U16 champion and was Scottish national champion in 1991 . After the professional tournaments had also been opened to amateurs from the 1991/92 season , he signed up there. In his second tournament, the Grand Prix , he survived 7 qualifying rounds and moved into the main tournament of the last 64. With Rex Williams he beat a former top 16 player. There were also many early defeats, but at the Strachan Open and the European Open he confirmed this performance by reaching the bottom 128 and 96 respectively. He took 139th place after the first year in the world rankingsa. With reaching the last 64 at the Asian Open 1993 and another top 96 placement, he held his position the following year. And the 1993/94 season also had smaller successes such as two placements among the last 96, but he did not make any progress in the ranking. The 1994 UK Championship also reached the main tournament for the first time, but that was the only high point in his fourth year. In the meantime, he had fallen back to 151st place, but in the 1995/96 season he came under the last 64 of the most important tournament, the World Cup , and also made it to the Welsh Open , which pushed him back up to 137th place. In the Benson & Hedges Championship , a tournament without the top 16 players and without ranking points, he even came in the bottom 32 for the first time in a professional tournament.He repeatedly beat top 64 players like Mark Bennett and Paul Davies , without himself to be able to penetrate these areas.

In 1997 the professional tour was to be split up and with a placement in the top 64 he could have qualified directly for the main tour , but with his worst season so far with two last 128 as the best results, he fell far behind. But he took part in the WPBSA Qualifying School and won his group final against Bradley Jones in the second tournament and was thus able to continue to compete in the major professional tournaments. After that, he made it back to the last 64 at the 1997 Grand Prix and 32 to the bottom at the Benson & Hedges Championship. There were four defeats in the beginning and only the last 64 at the British Open but at the end of the 1997/98 season he made a big leap forward to 96th place. The next season he always lost in round 1 or 2, then he made it to the bottom 64 at the Thailand Masters . And then he reached the China International his best result in a ranking tournament with the round of the last 48. His second entry among the last 64 at the World Cup brought him further forward and with further victories and the last 64 at the Welsh Open in the 1999/2000 season, he finally achieved his best ranking with 85th place. However, a top 64 placement was then necessary for direct further qualification for the professional tour, and after a bad 2000/01 season with only one match win in 9 tournaments, he not only fell out of the top 128, but also lost after 10 Years of professional status.

In the next 4 years he tried unsuccessfully to re-qualify via the Challenge Tour . The results in the 4 tournaments a year were moderate, only in 2003 he reached a semi-final, which he lost to Kurt Maflin . But that was far too little because otherwise he would never get past the last 32 round. When the 8-part PIOS tour was switched to in 2005 , the Scot finally gave up his professional career at the age of 33. He then remained active and successful as an amateur. In 2010 he qualified for the World Open at a tournament in Glasgow and in 2015 he was invited to participate in the 6-Red World Championship . These were his last two appearances in Main Tour tournaments. At the national tournaments, MacGillivray, who has worked as a taxi driver in his hometown of Edinburgh since 2011 , remained a top player. In 2013 and 2014 he was number 1 in the Scottish rankings and in 2016 and 2017 he was runner-up.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

  • Qualification: WPBSA Qualifying School (1997 - Event 2)

Amateur tournaments:

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Craig MacGillivray on CueTracker (as of March 19, 2018)
  2. ↑ Craig MacGillivray not planning a return to paid ranks , Michael Gallache, Edinburgh Evening News, Oct. 28, 2014
  3. ↑ Scottish Snooker Rankings , Scottish Snooker, accessed March 19, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME MacGillivray, Craig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1972