Dominic Dale

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Dominic Dale
Dominic Dale
birthday 29th December 1971 (age 48)
place of birth Coventry , England
nationality WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wales
Nickname (s) Spaceman
professional since 1992
Prize money £ 1,273,747 (As of August 27, 2020)
Highest break 145 ( UK Championship 1999 )
Century Breaks 219 (as of August 27, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories 2
Minor tournament victories 1
World rankings
Highest WRL place 19 ( 99/00 )
Current WRL location 86 (as of August 17, 2020)

Dominic Dale (* 29. December 1971 in Coventry , England as Christopher Dale ; Nickname: Spaceman ) is a Welsh snooker player .

Career

As an amateur, he was Welsh Amateur Champion in 1991 , qualifying for the IBSF World Amateur Championship , where he reached the final. He made his professional debut in 1992. His first victory in a ranking tournament he celebrated in 1997 at the Grand Prix in Bournemouth after a win against John Higgins . He was only the fifth Welshman to win a world ranking tournament. At the UK Championship in 1999 he played his highest break to date of 145 points.

Dale was a member of the Welsh team when he won the Nations Cup in 1999 and reached the Finals in 2000 .

At the Snooker World Championship in 2000 he reached the quarterfinals after victories over Peter Ebdon and David Gray , which he lost to Joe Swail .

After victories over Liu Chuang , Ken Doherty , Adrian Gunnell , Dave Harold and Mark Selby , Dale won the 2007 Shanghai Masters final as a qualifier against Ryan Day 10: 6. After a 2: 6 deficit, he won eight frames in a row and was able to celebrate his second success at a world ranking tournament.

At Event 6 (minor world ranking tournament) of the Players Tour Championship 2010 he was able to win the title with a 4: 3 final victory over Martin Gould .

various

Because of his style of clothing and his frequently changing hairstyle, Dominic Dale is considered one of the most eccentric players on the Main Tour. That earned him the nickname Spaceman .

Besides snooker, singing is one of his great passions. The Welshman has completed a vocal training and likes to entertain the audience and his fellow campaigners with his singing skills at exhibitions or press conferences, for example after his victory at the Shanghai Masters in 2007.

Dominic Dale lived in Vienna from 2007 to 2011 and is an honorary member of the 15 Reds Köö Vienna Snooker Club . In June 2011 Dale moved back to England near Gloucester due to the high travel costs that would have resulted from the increase in the number of tournaments for the 2011/12 snooker season from Vienna. Occasionally he comments on broadcasts of snooker tournaments for the BBC .

swell

  1. ↑ Dominic Dale's profile on CueTracker (as of August 24, 2018)
  2. ^ Snookerblog.de: Dominic Dale: "I Did It My Way" . August 13, 2007.
  3. ^ Members. 15 Reds Club, accessed December 23, 2015 .
  4. ^ Goodnight Vienna. (No longer available online.) In: worldsnooker.com. June 2, 2011, archived from the original on December 24, 2015 ; accessed on December 23, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dale, Dominic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dale, Christopher (maiden name); Spaceman, Dominic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION welsh snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Coventry , England