Declan Hughes (snooker player)

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Declan Hughes
birthday April 27, 1973
nationality Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Northern Ireland
professional 1993–1997, 2000/01, 2008/09
Prize money £ 960
Highest break 129
Century Breaks 2
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 96 (2009)

Declan Hughes (born April 27, 1973 ) is a Northern Irish snooker player . In the 1990s and 2000s he played a total of six seasons as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour

Career

Declan Hughes achieved his first major successes at the age of 19. In 1992 he won the Northern Irish Amateur Championship . He surpassed that in the same year when he reached the final of the Pontins Spring Open in Prestatyn , Welsh , a tournament with amateurs and professionals, where he defeated the English professional Steve James 7-2. James had just had his most successful season and was 7th in the world rankings .

Even so, Hughes waited another year until he first took part in the professional tour in the 1993/94 season . At that time it was open to all players who had the financial means to register. As a result, however, several hundred players signed up for the tournaments, which had to go through numerous preliminary rounds. At the UK Championship he made it to round 5 and at the European Open he went one more round and only just missed making it to the bottom 128. Otherwise he was mostly eliminated in the second or third round. His first ranking after this season was 381 out of over 600 players. The following year the European Open was again his most successful tournament, even if only with round 4. 1995/96 it went much better, four times he reached round 5 and at the British Open round 6. In his fourth year he reached the German Opened the round of 128 for the first time in 1996 after beating Ian McCulloch 5-4 . At the European Open he achieved this a second time by beating Stefan Mazrocis 5: 4 . Two more round 5 results were also opposed to four first round defeats. After the 1996/97 season , the field of players was divided into two classes, but since Hughes had not made it into the Top 200, he was no longer allowed to play on the Main Tour .

Although he could have qualified for the following year through the WPBSA Qualifying School, he only managed one victory in the four tournaments. Then he limited himself to two participations in the last open tournament, the snooker world championship , to amateur tournaments. At the Northern Irish Championship 2000 he reached the semi-finals again, which he lost to Patrick Wallace . In the following season he was listed in the world rankings, but did not take part in any professional tournament. In 2004/05 he tried again with the qualification for the tour via the Challenge Tour , but lost the first two games without a frame gain. Reaching the quarter-finals in tournament 3 didn't change anything, as he didn't appear in the last tournament. In Northern Irish snooker he remained successful and at the end of the 2007/08 season he was number 1 in the national ranking. This meant that he once more at 35 years from the Northern Ireland Association for the 1996-97 season , a wild card got to the professional tour. But after he lost the first four games and only won more than one frame, he did not play in the remaining three tournaments and finally ended his professional career.

In addition to snooker, Declan Hughes was also successful in pool and won the All-Ireland 9-Ball Pool Championship in 2008 .

successes

Amateur tournaments:

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Declan Hughes on CueTracker

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personal data
SURNAME Hughes, Declan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1973