Dean Reynolds

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Dean Reynolds
birthday 11th January 1963 (age 57)
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 1981-2001
Prize money £ 622,673
Highest break 139
Century Breaks 41
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 8 ( 90/91 )

Dean Reynolds (born January 11, 1963 ) is an English snooker player from Grimsby . From 1981 to 2001 he played on the professional tour for 20 years in a row .

Career

Beginnings

Dean Reynolds had minor successes as a teenager, but his breakthrough came in 1981 when he won the first edition of the Junior Pot Black . He then became the English U-19 champion and then began his professional career in the 1981/82 season . His first major tournament was the International Masters . Although he was eliminated in the group stage, he was already able to assert himself against players like Tony Knowles and Rex Williams . In his first world championship , he defeated former world champion Fred Davis 10: 7 in the round of 32 and reached the round of 16. Despite false starts he was able to equalize the game against Silvino Francisco to 5: 5 and keep it open until 8:10, but then the South African pulled away to 13: 8. With that, Reynolds rose to number 22 in the world rankings . In the following year, two other ranking tournaments were introduced in addition to the World Cup: at the International Open , he reached the eighth finals and at the Professional Players Tournament even the quarterfinals. He was also in the round of 16 at the UK Championship and the Masters . Only at the World Cup he had no chance against Alex Higgins in Round 2 . He missed the top 16, but at least rose to 19th place in the ranking.

The 1983/84 season was a step backwards, he never got beyond the last 32 and lost his opening match at the World Cup. The following year was changeable, he failed twice in round 1, twice in round 2. In return, after victories over the Francisco brothers Peter and Silvino at the Grand Prix , he reached the quarter-finals. Likewise in the English professional championship , where he defeated Willie Thorne , among others . At the 1985 World Snooker Championship , Alex Higgins was again in round 2 terminus. The 1985/86 season started promisingly with the round of 16 at the Matchroom Trophy , but after that there was no such ranking result. Only in the English professional championship, which does not count for the rankings, did he reach the quarter-finals for the second time in a row. It fell back to 29th place in the world.

Career high point

The turning point came with the International Open in 1986 , where he reached his third ranking quarter-finals. The round of 16 at the UK Championship was followed by his first semi-final at the Classic , which he just lost 8: 9 to Jimmy White . He immediately returned the favor with a 6: 5 win in the round of 16 at the English professional championship, beating a top 5 player for the first time. At the World Cup , however, White again had the upper hand with 10: 8 in the round of the last 32. Nevertheless, Reynolds made it into the top 16 in the world for the first time. The 1987/88 season started badly with only one win in the first four ranking tournaments, but then came the English professional championship. He defeated in the quarterfinals Tony Meo , who had previously won the title twice in a row, and then met the 1986 world champion and reigning runner-up Joe Johnson . With 9: 8 and 71:41 in the decision-making frame, he won this game and reached his first professional final. Surprisingly clear with 9: 5 he then won the title against world number three Neal Foulds . This didn't give him any momentum for the remaining ranking tournaments, but at least he reached the semi-finals at the Kent Cup after defeating Alex Higgins for the first time.

In 1988/89 he met again at the International Open on Foulds and Johnson and was able to repeat the victories. Jimmy White was the final destination in the semifinals. At the British Open , he avoided the encounter with White by his cancellation and reached the semi-finals with victories over Cliff Wilson and Joe Johnson. With a narrow 9: 8 win over John Parrott he was the first time in a ranking tournament in the final, but lost it 6:13 against Tony Meo. At the World Cup , after defeating Peter Francisco, he made it to the round of 16 for the second time after his debut and then had little trouble progressing against Welshman Wayne Jones . Again he failed in the quarterfinals to Tony Meo, but it was still his best career result at the World Cup. The following year he confirmed his performance with his second ranking final at the Grand Prix . For the second time he missed the chance of a rankings title and suffered a 10-0 defeat against world champion Steve Davis . Until 2011 it was the only zero defeat in a ranking final. Before that, however, he had thrown runner-up and world number two John Parrott and number 8 Dennis Taylor from the tournament. With the quarter-finals at the Dubai Classic and the second round at the UK Championship , two more good results followed, both times Stephen Hendry prevented him from progressing. At the World Matchplay , an invitation tournament, he was able to retaliate with Tony Meo and Steve Davis for the defeats he had previously suffered both times with a 9: 7 win, before in the semifinals Jimmy White with 44:63 points in the decision-making frame with 8: 9 was subject. The season ended with another round of 16 at the 1990 World Cup and with 8th place in the world rankings, he had reached the peak of his career.

Late years

In the 1990/91 season the Englishman still achieved very good results. So he reached the semifinals of the Dubai Classic . In the World Matchplay he was in the quarterfinals and had Stephen Hendry, whom he could never defeat in his career, on the verge of defeat: the decision-making frame ended at 69:56. There were also three more round of 16, including the World Cup again . With three defeats at the beginning of the ranking tournaments, however, he missed the chance to improve overall. In the following year there were again three defeats in the beginning, including at the World Cup. On the plus side were the quarter-finals at the UK Championship and three more round of 16. At the Masters , after defeating Mike Hallett , he also reached the quarter-finals and thus his best tournament result. But because he did not get any ranking points for it and fell out of the top 16, he was not able to qualify for the Masters again afterwards. In 1992/93 the downward trend continued. There were numerous defeats at the beginning. The round of 16 at the UK Championship , where he defeated a top 10 player with Nigel Bond , and the second tournament of the Strachan Challenge , a minor tournament with reduced ranking points, only had two better results. At the World Cup he had to qualify and made it into the first main round. It was his last appearance at the Crucible Theater , which ended with a clear 4-10 loss to Gary Wilkinson . In two years he had fallen 20 places in the ranking.

The following year he was able to hold his position in ranked tournaments without the main round of the World Cup with three round of 16. In 1994/95 he only made it to the round of 16 at the European Open , but was regularly among the bottom 32. He remained among the top 32 in the world. In the following season, however, a top result was missing and the opening defeats increased. He dropped out of the top 32 and had to play more qualifying rounds as a result. In 1996/97 he made it into the bottom 32 only three times, in the year there was no other top 32 result other than the round of 16 at the UK Championship . Again, the ranking quickly fell to 51st. It wasn't just increasing age that led to his decline in performance, Reynolds also had significant drinking problems. These went so far that he had to go to prison in 1999 for repeated drunk driving. For his match against Joe Johnson at the World Cup , he was given extra freedom with an electronic ankle cuff and was even able to win. Against Jimmy White he missed the Crucible entry with 7:10. But he still stayed in the top 64, which automatically qualified for another Main Tour season. The following year he only won one match in the first and last tournament of the season and after only three opening wins in the 2000/01 season , he finally fell back to 109th place and lost at the age of 38 after 20 Years of professional status.

As an amateur, he then took part in the pre-qualification for the world championship and tried again in 2008/09 at the Main Tour qualification via the PIOS tournaments. But he no longer achieved remarkable results. In 2009 he suffered a heart attack. He recovered and competed in the World Seniors Championship in the 2010s , but didn't get past qualifications either.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Amateur tournaments:

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Dean Reynolds at CueTracker (as of July 11, 2018)
  2. ^ Snooker: Prison life puts Reynolds on right track , Independent, April 2, 1999
  3. ^ Snooker star on road to recovery one month after stroke , Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (NHS), May 6, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Reynolds, Dean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1963