Darren Morgan / Achievements

Morgan during the EBSA European Snooker Championship 2008

This list features the achievements of snooker player Darren Morgan . The Welshman Morgan was a professional player on the Snooker Main Tour between 1988 and 2006 and reached 48 finals both during that time and as an amateur in the years before and after, of which he won 31.

Born in Newport in 1966 , Morgan won both the Welsh Snooker Championship and the Amateur World Championship in 1987 and became a professional player for the 1988/89 season as a result. Already in his first professional season at the Pontins Professional in 1989, in the final against Tony Drago , he won his first professional tournament win, and in the next season he made it to the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship . Flanked by victories at various smaller tournaments such as the Welsh Professional Championship , he climbed the snooker world rankings and was already 16th in the world rankings in the 1992/93 season . After reaching the final of the Welsh Open in 1992 and the final of the Asian Open in 1993, he was among the top 10 in the world rankings for three years between 1994 and 1997.

In the following years, however, the successes largely failed to materialize; Morgan only won a few tournaments without any influence on the world rankings such as the Irish Masters in 1996 or the Nations Cup in 1999 together with the Welsh team . In the world rankings, he dropped out of the top 16 in 1998 and out of the top 32 in 2000, before he ended his professional career at the end of the 2005/06 season - slipping further to 66th place. As a result, Morgan stepped up its commitment at amateur level, winning the Welsh Snooker Championship two more times, the World Senior Amateur Championship five times, the European Senior Snooker Championship ten times and the 2011 World Seniors Championship .

Ranking positions and triple crown successes

This list shows the ranking positions of Darren Morgan during his career and the performance in the Triple Crown tournaments , with the respective editions of the tournaments as well as the respective world rankings are linked .

Legend
S.	winner	F.	finalist
HF	Semi-finalist	VF	Quarter finalist
AF	Round of 16	#R	Eliminated in a previous round
QR	not qualified	A.	did not participate in the tournament
oR	without ranking	S / N	Victories / defeats

competition	1988/ 1989	1989/ 1990	1990/ 1991	1991/ 1992	1992/ 1993	1993/ 1994	1994/ 1995	1995/ 1996	1996/ 1997	1997/ 1998	1998/ 1999	1999/ 2000	2000/ 2001	2001/ 2002	2002/ 2003	2003/ 2004	2004/ 2005	2005/ 2006	Career S / N
World snooker ranking	oR	53	40	33	16	10	8th	8th	9	15th	22nd	23	25th	39	54	63	75	66
UK Championship	QR	QR	2R	AF	VF	HF	VF	2R	1R	AF	1R	VF	1R	QR	QR	QR	QR	QR	0/18
Masters	A.	A.	A.	A.	WC	AF	AF	VF	AF	AF	A.	A.	A.	A.	A.	A.	A.	A.	0/18
World Snooker Championship	1R	VF	QR	QR	AF	HF	AF	VF	VF	AF	1R	1R	QR	QR	QR	QR	QR	QR	0/18

Overview of the finals

Morgan reached a total of 48 finals in major tournaments in both his amateur and professional years. The majority of these finals take place in various amateur tournaments. All in all, he was able to win 31 of the finals and thus also more than half.

Ranked tournaments

During his career, Morgan reached the finals in only two ranking tournaments, professional tournaments that had an impact on the world snooker ranking, but lost each time.

Result	year	competition	Opponent in the final	Final score
finalist	1992	Welsh Open	Stephen Hendry	3: 9
finalist	1993	Asian Open	Dave Harold	3: 9

Invitation tournaments

Morgan also only reached the final of an invitation tournament twice, which means that it has a limited field of participants and has no influence on the world rankings. In contrast to the ranked tournaments, Morgan won one of these two finals.

Result	year	competition	Opponent in the final	Final score
winner	1996	Irish Masters	Steve Davis	9: 8
finalist	1997	Irish Masters	Stephen Hendry	8: 9

Non-ranking tournaments

In so-called non-ranking tournaments, i.e. tournaments that, for example, have a more or less open field of participants, but still have no influence on the world rankings, Morgan reached ten finals, of which he was able to win six. One win and one defeat are accounted for by editions of the World Seniors Championship , which took place after the end of his professional career, but in which Morgan participated as an amateur and are therefore also listed here.

Result	year	competition	Opponent in the final	Final score
winner	1989	Pontins Professional	Tony Drago	9: 2
finalist	1989	WPBSA Non-Ranking - Event 1	Robby Foldvari	1: 8
winner	1990	Welsh Professional Championship	Doug Mountjoy	7: 9
winner	1990	International one frame shoot-out	Mike Hallett	2: 1
winner	1991	Welsh Professional Championship	Mark Bennett	9: 3
finalist	1991	Benson & Hedges Satellite Championship	Ken Doherty	3: 9
finalist	1993	Pontins Professional	Ken Doherty	3: 9
winner	2000	Pontins Professional	Jimmy White	9: 2
winner	2011	World Seniors Championship	Steve Davis	2: 1
finalist	2016	World Seniors Championship	Mark Davis	1: 2

Team competitions

As part of the Nations Cup , Morgan appeared several times together with other Welsh players in a Welsh team. With two editions the team reached the final, of which they could win one.

Result	year	competition	Team partner	Opponent in the final	Final score
winner	1999	Nations Cup	Mark Williams Matthew Stevens Dominic Dale	Stephen Hendry John Higgins Alan McManus Chris Small	6: 4
Second	2000	Nations Cup	Mark Williams Matthew Stevens Dominic Dale	John Parrott Ronnie O'Sullivan Stephen Lee Jimmy White	4: 6

Qualifying competitions

In qualifying competitions for the status of professional snooker player, Morgan reached the final in one case, but lost it.

Result	year	competition	Opponent in the final	Final score
finalist	1987	WPBSA Pro Ticket Series 88/89 - Event 2	Nick Terry	3: 5

Amateur tournaments

Morgan can boast a large number of successes, especially at the amateur level, where he reached the finals of 31 major tournaments and also won 23 cases.

Result	year	competition	Opponent in the final	Final score
winner	1987	Welsh Snooker Championship	John Herbert	8: 4
winner	1987	IBSF World Snooker Championship	Joe Grech	11: 4
finalist	1989	Dutch Open	Mike Hallett	5: 6
finalist	1996	Pontins Spring Open	Ken Doherty	3: 7
winner	2007	EBSA Senior European Snooker Championship	Kieran McMahon	6: 2
winner	2007	IBSF Senior World Snooker Championship	Kanchai Wongjan	5: 1
finalist	2009	Welsh Snooker Championship	Michael White	2: 8
winner	2009	EBSA Senior European Snooker Championship	Joe Delaney	6: 3
winner	2009	IBSF Senior World Snooker Championship	Dene O'Kane	6-0
winner	2010	EBSA Senior European Snooker Championship	Joe Delaney	6-0
winner	2012	EBSA Senior European Snooker Championship	Steve Judd	6-0
winner	2012	IBSF Senior World Snooker Championship	Glen Wilkinson	6: 2
winner	2013	EBSA Senior European Snooker Championship	Alan Trigg	6: 3
finalist	2014	IBSF Senior World Snooker Championship	Phisit Chandsri	5: 6
winner	2015	Welsh Snooker Championship	Daniel Wells	8-0
winner	2015	EBSA Senior European Snooker Championship	Jamie Bodle	6: 2
finalist	2016	Welsh Snooker Championship	David John	7: 8
winner	2016	EBSA Senior European Snooker Championship	Brendan Thomas	6-0
winner	2016	IBSF 6 Red Snooker World Championship	Chau Hon Man	6: 4
finalist	2017	Welsh Snooker Championship	Rhydian Richards	4: 8
winner	2017	European Snooker Open	Michael Judge	4: 1
winner	2017	EBSA Senior European Snooker Championship	Elfred Evans	6: 2
winner	2017	IBSF 6 Red Snooker World Championship	Kamal Chawla	6: 4
winner	2017	IBSF Senior World Snooker Championship	Aidan Owens	6: 3
finalist	2018	WSF Seniors Championship	Igor Figueiredo	3: 5
winner	2018	European snooker shootout	Tom Zimmermann	1-0
winner	2018	EBSA Senior European Snooker Championship	John Farrell	4: 2
winner	2018	IBSF Senior World Snooker Championship	Saleh Mohammadi	6-0
winner	2019	Welsh Snooker Championship	Gavin Lewis	8: 2
winner	2019	EBSA Senior European Snooker Championship	Alan Trigg	4: 2
finalist	2019	World Seniors Championship	Jimmy White	3: 5

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ron Florax: Ranking History For Darren Morgan. CueTracker.net, accessed February 17, 2020 .  
2. ↑ Ron Florax: Final Finishes By Darren Morgan In All Professional 1 Events. CueTracker.net, accessed February 19, 2020 .  
3. ↑ Ron Florax: Winner Finishes By Darren Morgan In All Professional 5 Events. CueTracker.net, accessed February 19, 2020 .  
4. ↑ Ron Florax: Final Finishes By Darren Morgan In All Professional 5 Events. CueTracker.net, accessed February 19, 2020 .  
5. ↑ Ron Florax: Winner Finishes By Darren Morgan In All Professional 3 Events. CueTracker.net, accessed February 19, 2020 .  
6. ↑ Ron Florax: Final Finishes By Darren Morgan In All Professional 3 Events. CueTracker.net, accessed February 19, 2020 .  
7. ↑ Chris Turner: World Cup / World Team Classic / Nations Cup - Team Events. (No longer available online.) Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2011, archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; accessed on February 19, 2020 (English).  
8. ↑ Ron Florax: Final Finishes By Darren Morgan In All Professional 6 Events. CueTracker.net, accessed February 19, 2020 .  
9. ↑ Ron Florax: Winner Finishes By Darren Morgan In All Non-professional 9 Events. CueTracker.net, accessed February 19, 2020 .  
10. ↑ Ron Florax: Final Finishes By Darren Morgan In All Non-professional 9 Events. CueTracker.net, accessed February 19, 2020 .  
11. ↑ Ron Florax: Winner Finishes By Darren Morgan In All Non-professional 11 Events. CueTracker.net, accessed February 19, 2020 .  
12. ↑ Ron Florax: Played matches European Snooker Championships - Belgrade / Serbia 2019. In: ebsa.pl. European Billiards and Snooker Association , accessed February 19, 2020 .  
13. ↑ Ron Florax: Winner Finishes By Darren Morgan In All Non-professional 12 Events. CueTracker.net, accessed February 19, 2020 .  
14. ↑ Ron Florax: Final Finishes By Darren Morgan In All Non-professional 12 Events. CueTracker.net, accessed February 19, 2020 .  
15. ↑ Ron Florax: Final Finishes By Darren Morgan In All Non-professional 13 Events. CueTracker.net, accessed February 19, 2020 .  

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