Darren Morgan

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Darren Morgan
Darren Morgan
birthday 3rd May 1966 (age 54)
place of birth Newport
nationality WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wales
Nickname (s) Welsh Wizard
professional 1988-2005
Highest break 145
Century Breaks 111
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 8 ( 94/95 - 95/96 )

Darren Morgan (born May 3, 1966 in Newport ) is a professional Welsh snooker player .

Career

His professional career began in 1988 after becoming IBSF Amateur World Champion the year before . In 1990 and 1991 he won the Welsh Professional Championship twice in a row . It had its most successful period in the mid-1990s, when it climbed to 8th place in the world rankings. His participation in the semi-finals at the World Snooker Championship in 1994 also contributed to this. In 1996 he won the Irish Masters . He was also part of the victorious Welsh quartet at the Nations Cup in 1999 , which made it to the finals the following year.

For six years to 1998, Morgan stayed in the top 16, but then stayed in the professional field for seven more years before failing to qualify for another year in 2005. Since then he has continued to play successfully in the amateur field and won both the World Masters and the European Masters (Seniors) in 2007 and 2009.

In 2011 he won the World Seniors Championship , in 2016 and 2019 he was in the final again, but lost to Mark Davis (2016) and Jimmy White in 2019.

successes

Morgan reached a total of 48 finals in both his amateur and professional time, of which he won 32. While a full list of these players can be found here , the following are Morgan's four finals in world ranking and invitation tournaments.

Result year competition Opponent in the final Final score
finalist 1992 Welsh Open ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 3: 9
finalist 1993 Asian Open EnglandEngland Dave Harold 3: 9
winner 1996 Irish Masters EnglandEngland Steve Davis 9: 8
finalist 1997 Irish Masters ScotlandScotland Stephen Hendry 8: 9

swell

  1. ↑ Century Breaks ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (as of December 10, 2009)
  2. ^ Profile at Global Snooker ( Memento from April 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Snooker Archive: World Rankings (1990/91 to 2004/05) ( Memento of March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Morgan Claims World Masters Title ( Memento of 27 November 2009 at the Internet Archive ) 23. Global Snooker, Nov. 2009
  5. ↑ EBSA - European Roll of Honor. European Champions - Masters. (No longer available online.) In: http://www.global-snooker.com . Global Snooker Limited, archived from the original on September 3, 2014 ; accessed on August 29, 2014 .

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personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Darren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION welsh snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Newport , Wales