David McLellan

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David McLellan
birthday 10th January 1970 (age 50)
nationality ScotlandScotland Scotland
professional 1991-1997, 1998-2001, 2002/03
Prize money £ 69,340
Highest break 147
Century Breaks 18th
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 75 (1997/98)

David McLellan (born January 10, 1970 ) is a Scottish snooker player . Between 1991 and 2003 he played a total of 10 years as a professional on the Main Tour .

Career

Increasing success on the open professional tour

David McLellan, like many snooker players, began his career in 1991, when professional tournaments were open to everyone. In the first four ranked tournaments he lost his opening match in the 1991/92 season and even after that there were only a few wins in the pre-qualification. In 1992 he survived three laps. In the ranking of the tour participants, he took 286th place at the end of the season. But he had a particular success in his first year at a professional tournament without a ranking. At the Benson & Hedges Satellite Championship he defeated players like Bob Chaperon and Jimmy Michie and only lost 4: 5 against James Wattana in the round of 16 . The next year he made great strides and reached the last 64 for the first time in the second tournament, the Grand Prix . This result he repeated later in the season at the Welsh Open . In a smaller tournament, the third station of the Strachan Challenge , he came in the bottom 128. The season balance included victories against the top 64 players Brian Morgan and John Read . He improved himself to number 172 in the ranking.

In the 1993/94 season he confirmed the performance and reached the round of 128 in the two major ranking tournaments, the World Championship and the UK Championship . In the tournaments not counting for the world rankings, he came even further, at the Benson & Hedges Championship he came under the last 64 and at the Strachan Challenge he made it for the first time in a professional tournament under the last 32. The following year, the International Open stood out, where he and old master Alex Higgins defeated number 48 in the ranking and once again the main tournament the last one reached 64. Two more times he came under the last 96. Other top players such as his Scottish compatriots John Higgins and Drew Henry he defeated in the WPBSA Minor Tour, which was held parallel to the professional tour, where he reached the quarter-finals in the first tournament in Belgium.

But he didn't make a leap up again until the 1995/96 season . It started with another top 64 result at the Thailand Classic . The highlight was the International Open , where he was among the bottom 32 for the first time in a full ranking tournament. He defeated Mark Johnston-Allen and a top 32 player with Steve James . At the World Cup , he reached the last 96 for the first time and lost there just 8:10 against the number 50 Stephen Murphy . In three other tournaments he was among the last 128, also in the world rankings, where he rose to 107th place. The next season did not start quite as successfully, only at the International Open there was a greater success when he repeated his placement from last year and beat another top 32 player with Mick Price . The highlight of the season and career was the final World Cup . He won the first three rounds 10: 9 and then survived the last round of 64 with 10: 6 against Nick Dyson . He played against the number 21 in the world, Neal Foulds for a place in the World Cup final at the Crucible Theater . After a strong intermediate sprint, he already pulled away to 9: 3, but the Englishman managed to equalize again. McLellan only prevailed in the decision frame with 10: 9. His only match in the Crucible, however, he clearly lost 2:10 against world number tenth Steve Davis .

Up and down the Main Tour years

Although he then achieved his best world ranking position with number 75, that was not enough to qualify for the newly introduced Main Tour of the 1997/98 season. He was also unsuccessful in the four tournaments of the WPBSA Qualifying School and only won a single game. So he had to go on the second-rate UK tour . But the whole season was disappointing, he only made it into the round of 16 at least once and in the last four appearances of the season he lost the opening match. Only at the Benson & Hedges Championship, which is open to all, did he have a greater sense of achievement when he beat Joe Swail , number 22 in the world rankings, with 5: 1. The year cost him a lot of rankings, but he was able to hold out so that he was allowed to participate in the major tournaments again the following year. But the calendar year came to an end with many more opening defeats and it wasn't until 1999 that he made it back to the last 64 at the Scottish Open . At the British Open he was once again among the last 96, but when he was already in the World Cup If the preliminary rounds failed, he finally lost his position in the top 128.

Nonetheless, 1999/2000 proved to be another very successful season for the Scot. At the Grand Prix , at the UK Championship and again at the Scottish Open , he reached the bottom of 64. And in three other tournaments, including the World Championship , he was among the bottom 96. His second-best ranking position, 98th, was the result. The round of the last 64 was also the best result the following year, he achieved it exactly once at the Welsh Open , where he defeated number 48 in the ranking with Euan Henderson . At the Benson & Hedges Championship he managed a rare maximum break in the opening game against Steve Meakin . It was only the 40th official break of 147 points in professional snooker and the only one of his career. He then defeated Graeme Dott , number 19 in the world rankings, 5-2 in the tournament before he was eliminated in round 3. Otherwise there were only average results that year and he fell off the Main Tour again.

In the 2001/02 season he therefore had to play Challenge Tour to qualify again. But with two round of 16 as the best results, he was far from success. For this he took part in the Scottish Amateur Championship and reached the final. There he defeated the defending champion Gary Thomson 7-0. He also took part in the European Amateur Championship and reached the final there too. However, he lost that against David John from Wales 2: 7. In the 2002/03 season he then returned to the Main Tour. Right at the start he reached the last 64 in the LG Cup , but then only won 2 games for the rest of the season. He ended up in 128th place and this time finally lost his professional status. Since snooker was already in crisis and the few remaining tournaments were not lucrative enough to finance the sport, he gave up his professional ambitions at the age of 33. In the 2010s the situation improved and he made another attempt. In the third tournament of the Q School in 2011, he at least reached the semi-finals of his qualification group, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

  • Quarterfinals: WPBSA Minor Tour (1994 - Event 1), UK Tour (1998 - Event 1)

Amateur tournaments:

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of David McLellan at CueTracker (as of March 6, 2018)

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personal data
SURNAME McLellan, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1970