David Lilley (snooker player)

David Lilley
birthday	19th October 1975 (age 44)
nationality	England
professional	since 2019
Prize money	£ 44,900 as of August 31, 2020
Highest break	136 ( Q School 2018/2 )
Century Breaks	14 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	113 ( July-August 2019 )
Current WRL location	118 (as of August 17, 2020)

David Lilley (born October 19, 1975 ) is an English snooker player .

Career

David Lilley's first major success was winning the European Amateur Championship in 1995 by beating fellow countryman David Gray 8-7 in the final . At the amateur world championship of the same year, he also made it into the final. There he was defeated by the Thai Sakchai Sim-Ngam with 7:11. In 1997 he reached the final of the English amateur championship for the first time and won it 8: 7 against Robert Marshall . At the Amateur World Cup in 1997 , he reached the quarter-finals. In 1999 he became English amateur champions with an 8: 5 win in the final against Andrew Norman . In the same year he reached the semi-finals of the Amateur European Championship and the final of the Amateur World Championships , where he Welshman Ian Preece lost with 8:11. In 2000 he lost the final of the English amateur championship 5-8 against Nick Marsh . In February 2002 he took part for the first time in the qualification for the professional world championship , but retired in the second qualifying round against Timothy Paling . In 2004, Lilley won the English amateur championship for the third time by beating Wayne Cooper 8-6. At the Amateur World Cup in 2004, he was defeated in the semifinals by the eventual world champion Mark Allen just 6: 8. In qualifying for the Professional World Cup in 2005 , he was eliminated in the third round against Stuart Mann . At the English amateur championship in 2007 he lost in the final against Martin Gould just 7: 8.

After he had not participated in international tournaments for a few years, he took part in the second tournament of the Players Tour Championship 2012/13 in August 2012 and was eliminated there in the first qualifying round against Ben Harrison . At the 2013 European Amateur Championships , he reached the quarter-finals, where he was eliminated 2-5 by Gareth Allen . In May 2016 he tried to qualify for the Main Tour through the Q School . In the first tournament he reached the final of his group, but lost there against the Chinese Chen Zhe , in the second tournament he was eliminated in the second round. He missed the qualification for the Main Tour, but as seventeenth of the Q-School-Order-of-Merit he can take part in tournaments of the 2016/17 season. At the Indian Open 2016 , the second world ranking tournament of the season, he was given a starting place for the first time. After beating Tian Pengfei 4: 3 in qualifying , he defeated Mike Dunn , Mark Williams and Robert Milkins in the main round and reached the quarter-finals, in which he beat Englishman Shaun Murphy 2: 2 with 2 : 4 defeated.

successes

Final participation

output	year	competition	Final opponent	Result
Qualifying tournaments
Second	2016/1	Q School	Chen Zhe	1: 4
winner	2019/1	Q School	Sean Maddocks	4-0
Amateur tournaments
winner	1995	European Championship	David Gray	8: 7
Second	1995	IBSF World Championship	Sakchai Sim-Ngam	7:11
winner	1997	English Amateur Championship	Robert Marshall	8: 7
winner	1999	English Amateur Championship	Andrew Norman	8: 5
Second	1999	IBSF World Championship	Ian Preece	8:11
Second	2000	English Amateur Championship	Nick Marsh	5: 8
winner	2004	English Amateur Championship	Wayne Cooper	8: 6
Second	2007	English Amateur Championship	Martin Gould	7: 8
Second	2017	English Amateur Championship	Billy Joe Castle	8:10
winner	2018	Challenge Tour - Event 5	Brandon Sargeant	3: 1
Second	2018	Challenge Tour - Event 8	Simon Bedford	1: 3
Second	2019	European Championship	Kacper Filipiak	4: 5

Web links

• David Lilley at snooker.org
• David Lilley in the Snooker Database (English)

swell

1. ↑ David Lilley. In: globalsnookercentre.co.uk. European Billiards and Snooker Association , archived from the original on January 7, 2009 ; Retrieved July 8, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Profile of David Lilley on CueTracker (as of June 17, 2019)
3. ↑ 2002 World Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed July 8, 2016 . 
4. ↑ 2005 World Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed July 8, 2016 . 
5. ^ Q School Order of Merit 2016/17. snooker.org, accessed July 8, 2016 .