Danny Lathouwers
| Danny Lathouwers | |
|---|---|
| birthday | October 27, 1968 |
| place of birth | Bilzen , Belgium |
| nationality |
 Belgium
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| professional | 1996/97, 1998/99 |
| Prize money | £ 775 |
| Highest break | 121 |
| Century Breaks | 2 |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | - |
| Ranking tournament victories | - |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
| World rankings | |
| Highest WRL place | 251 (1999) |
Danny Lathouwers (born October 27, 1968 in Bilzen ; actually Daniël Lathouwers ) is a Belgian snooker player from Limburg . He is a European amateur champion and a two-time Belgian champion .
Career
Danny Lathouwers started playing snooker late at the age of 17. Despite an impairment - his left eye only has 12 percent vision - he was immediately one of the best players in his region and won local titles. In the early 1990s he also played in tournaments of international standing such as the Humo Masters and the Dutch Open, in which professional players also took part. His first big success was the title as Belgian champion : in 1993 he defeated Stefan Van Der Borght 7-2 in the final. He was then allowed to take part in the following amateur world championship, where he did not get beyond the group stage despite 4: 3 wins. At the European Championship in 1994 he successfully completed the group round and after two more victories over British players he reached the final. There he met his compatriot Van Der Borght again. With a clear 8-2 win, he was the first Belgian to secure the European title. At the Belgian championship in the same year he reached the final again, but lost his title to Yvan Van Velthoven .
1995 Lathouwers first took part in the Minor Tour of the professional world association WPBSA and once reached the quarter-finals, which he lost to Ken Doherty . In the 1996/97 season he played for the first time on the then still open professional tour. In the Benson & Hedges Championship he defeated players like Antony Bolsover - after all number 86 in the world rankings - and Mark Fenton and reached the round of 32. In the ranked tournaments, however, he had to go through numerous qualifying rounds. Twice he made it to round 4 and at the world championship he reached round 3. In the following year, the professional snooker was divided into a main tour and a second league, the UK tour. His results were not enough to further qualify for the major tournaments. In the following years he took part in open tournaments such as the World Cup several times , but he did not succeed in qualifying for the Main Tour. His best world ranking position was 251 at the end of the 1998/99 season . At the beginning of the 2000s, he retired completely from snooker for two years and concentrated on the family's own flower trade.
At the age of 39, Lathouwers reached the final of the Belgian national championship for the third time in 2008 and with a 7-2 win over Kevin Van Hove he secured his second national title. He then survived the group round in the third attempt at the Amateur World Cup for the first time, but was eliminated in the first main round against the Irishman Brendan O'Donoghue .
In addition to his two national championship titles, he was twice number 1 in the Belgian annual rankings and won 12 regional championships in Limburg and Liège .
successes
Amateur tournaments:
- European Champion ( 1994 )
- Belgian champion (1993, 2008)
swell
- ↑ a b c Profile of Danny Lathouwers at CueTracker (as of July 26, 2018)
- ↑ a b Fiche: Danny Lathouwers , Niewsblad, May 30, 2008
- ↑ a b “Ik werk 100 uur per week” , Het Belang van Limburg, June 16, 2008
- ↑ Danny Lathouwers pact title op BK snooker , Nieuwsblad, May 25th 2008
Web links
- Tournament statistics at snooker.org
- Danny Lathouwers in the snooker Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lathouwers, Danny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lathouwers, Daniël (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian snooker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bilzen |