Danny Fowler

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Danny Fowler
birthday 30th July 1956 (age 64)
nationality EnglandEngland England
Nickname (s) Danny The Dustman
professional 1984 - 1997
Prize money £ 222,161
Highest break 137 ( WM 1985, Q )
Century Breaks 11
World rankings
Highest WRL place 28 ( 1991/92 )
Best results
Ranked tournaments 2 × semi-finals
Other professional tournaments 1 × quarter-finals

Danny Fowler (born July 30, 1956 ) is a retired English snooker player who was a professional player for thirteen years between 1984 and 1997. During this time, he reached the semi-finals of a world ranking tournament twice as well as the 28th place in the world snooker ranking .

Career

First professional years

Fowler, a former garbage collector , turned pro for the 1984/85 season at the age of 28 . During his first professional season, Fowler had mostly good results, so participating in the round of 64 at the Grand Prix was his worst result. Apart from that, he reached the round of 48 at the Classic and the Snooker World Championship and the round of 32 at the International Open , the UK Championship and the British Open as well as the non-ranking English Professional Championship he was ranked 55th in the world rankings the following season.

Over the course of the next season , Fowler was eliminated from the Matchroom Trophy , the Classic and the British Open in the round of 64, but in contrast reached the Grand Prix , the UK Championship and not least the English Professional Championship as well the round of the last 32 at the snooker world championship. As a result, he was able to improve by 22 places to 33rd place in the world rankings.

In addition to two defeats in the beginning, he reached the round of 64 at both the International Open and the Grand Prix during the 1986/87 season , the round of the last 48 at the Snooker World Championship and the round of 32 at the English Professional Championship and the Classic . Nevertheless, he lost seven places on the world rankings and was subsequently ranked 40th.

Raised to 29th place

Also in the 1987/88 season , Fowler was largely eliminated in the round of 64 at the latest. Only in three tournaments did he get past that round: At the Snooker World Cup, with his participation in the round of 32, he made it into the main round of the World Cup at the Crucible Theater for the second time and lost there to Tony Knowles , while he was on the one hand reached the round of 16 at the non-ranking English Professional Championship and the UK Championship . Nevertheless, he deteriorated in the world rankings by three more places to 43rd.

In the course of the next season , Fowler was eliminated from five tournaments in the round of 64 and reached the round of 32 at the Canadian Masters . In addition to the English Professional Championship , he also drew at the UK Championship and the European Open and at one event of the WPBSA non-ranking series into the last sixteen. As a result, he improved by seven places to 36th in the world rankings.

During the following season 1989/90 Fowler lost an opening game and was also eliminated five times in the round of 64 and at the European Open 1990 and the World Snooker Championship in the round of 32. Apart from that, he made it to the quarter-finals at the first WPBSA non-ranking event and achieved his best career result at the Grand Prix and the Dubai Classic with two appearances in the semi-finals of a ranking tournament. While he was defeated by Steve Davis 2: 9 at the Grand Prix , he was only eliminated by a relatively close 4: 5 against Stephen Hendry at the Dubai Classic . However, this meant a jump to 29th place on the world rankings for Fowler.

Years at the top of the world

During the 1990/91 season , Fowler was eliminated from five tournaments in the round of 64 and one other tournament in the round of 48. Apart from that, he lost in the Benson & Hedges Satellite Championship , a non-ranking tournament, in the Classic , in the men's individual competition at the World Masters and in the British Open in the round of 32, so he only won over this at the UK Championship Made ends meet. There he reached the quarterfinals and was eliminated with a 3: 9 against Stephen Hendry. As a result, he was able to improve his position on the world rankings to 28th place, which is Fowler's best world ranking.

Similar to the previous season was the following season for Fowler , in which he was again largely eliminated in the round of 32 of a tournament at the latest. Only at the Classic and the Strachan Open did he get beyond this round, but was eliminated in the round of 16 against Stephen Hendry and James Wattana . In the world rankings this meant a loss of two places for Fowler.

With the 1992/93 season , Fowler's performance deteriorated, so that his three appearances in a round of 32 - at the Dubai Classic , at the European Open and at the World Snooker Championship - were Fowler's best results of the season. During his 1:10 loss to Stephen Hendry , Fowler scored a total of only 191 points, which was a negative record. This record was not broken until 26 years later when the Chinese Luo Honghao only scored 89 points in his 10:10 defeat against Shaun Murphy in the 2019 World Snooker Championship .

Last professional years

In the 1993/94 season , Fowler finally lost a total of five opening games. Apart from that, he reached for the Championship UK , in the International Open and at an event of the Strachan Challenge the Round of 64 and in the Benson and Hedges Championship , in another Strachan Challenge event and at the European Open the Round of 32. In terms of the world rankings, this meant slipping to 46th place.

In the following two seasons Fowler took part in a total of 19 tournaments, but was only able to win his opening game in three tournaments. While he was victorious in the 1994/95 season at the UK Championship and the Welsh Open , but then lost in the round of 64 to Mark Bennett and Jason Ferguson , respectively , he defeated the next season as part of qualifying for the World Snooker Championship Michael Judge and Surinder Gill before being beaten by Willie Thorne in the round of 48 . On the world rankings, he fell from 65th to 90th.

With the 1996/97 season , Fowler limited his opening defeats to a third of the tournaments in which he participated. Nevertheless, Fowler lost three times in the other tournaments in the round of 128 as well as at the UK Championship and the European Open in the round of 96. Only at the Asian Classic did he make it into the round of 64, in which he However, Stephen Murphy was beaten. At the end of the season, Fowler slipped to 114th place in the world rankings, so that he lost his professional status after thirteen years as a professional player. He then worked on a friend's farm specializing in maggots . At least in 2019 Fowler lived in Worksop .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Snooker at The Crucible: 'Danny The Dustman' happy to consign record to the bin. The Yorkshire Post , April 22, 2019, accessed February 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ron Florax: Career Total Statistics For Danny Fowler - Professional Results. CueTracker., Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Ron Florax: Ranking History For Danny Fowler. CueTracker., Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Guy Hodgson: Hendry dumps Fowler. The Independent , April 18, 1993, accessed on February 4, 2020 (English, the result of the first round game between Hendry and Fowler at the 1993 World Cup of 0:10 for Hendry is very likely to be incorrect; the in The variant given in this article (1:10) can be covered by the information in the other sources of this article).
  5. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1984-1985 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1985-1986 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1986-1987 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1987-1988 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1988-1989 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1989-1990 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1990-1991 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 4, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1991-1992 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 4, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1992-1993 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 4, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Owen Phillips: World Championship 2019: Neil Robertson and Ding Junhui win, Shaun Murphy leads. BBC Sport , April 21, 2019, accessed February 4, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1993-1994 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 4, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1994-1995 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 4, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1995-1996 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 4, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Ron Florax: Danny Fowler - Season 1996-1997 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed February 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fowler, Danny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1956