Duane Jones (snooker player)

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Duane Jones
Duane Jones
birthday 30th April 1993 (age 27)
nationality WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wales
professional since 2015
Prize money £ 92,745 (as of August 31, 2020)
Highest break 141 ( China Open 2014 , Q)
Century Breaks 25 (as of August 31, 2020)
World rankings
Highest WRL place 72 ( February – April 2019 )
Current WRL location 116 (as of August 17, 2020)

Duane Jones (born April 30, 1993 ) is a Welsh snooker player from Mountain Ash in South Wales.

Career

Duane Jones started playing snooker when he was 12. According to his own statements, Jimmy White's matches brought him to the sport of billiards. In his youth he was the captain of Wales' U-16s, and prominent players such as Peter Ebdon , Terry Griffiths , Darren Morgan and also the Welsh national coach John Dobson gave him lessons. He has won the title of Welsh National Champion in all age groups and has also won local senior competitions. At 17 he reached the round of 16 of the U-19 European Championship and at 18 he took part for the first time in a tournament of the newly introduced Players Tour Championship , a professional tournament series open to amateurs, and was drawn there in the first round against Jimmy White. He lost, but applied in the same season in the Q School for a place on the Snooker Main Tour , albeit without success. At the U-21 European Championship he reached the semifinals this year. In the following year he played at all seven PTC tournaments in England and at the FFB Snooker Open 2012 in Germany. Four times he made the advance into the second main round with victories over the professional players Liu Chuang , Jamie Burnett , Tony Drago and Andy Hicks . In the Q School he did better this time, but this time he did not get beyond the semi-finals of his group in the third tournament . That year he was also number one on the Wales list for the first time. But even this did not help him to qualify for the Main Tour, because the regulation of the nomination by the British national associations had been abolished precisely in this season.

However, the Q School amateur rating gave him the opportunity in the 2012/13 season to take part in the qualifying rounds of some of the professional world rankings as a successor. At the Australian Open he made it into the second qualifying round against the then new professional Michael Leslie early in the season . Later on, the Welshman also won an opening win at his home tournament, the Welsh Open and the World Open . At the European Junior Championship of U-21 players, he made it to the semi-finals for the second time. In the variant of Six Red Snooker , he won the IBSF amateur world championship . In the Q School he reached the final of his group in the third tournament , but then lost the decisive game against Lee Spick . The following year was similar to this year. The opening win in the third tournament of the season, the Shanghai Masters , again against the Scot Leslie, was followed by a win against the top 16 professional Joe Perry in the penultimate tournament, the China Open . In the Q School this time it was Chris Melling who blocked his way to the Main Tour in the group final in a close match in the decision frame.

In the 2014/15 season , Jones only took part in two PTC tournaments on the continent and two qualifying tournaments and remained largely unsuccessful. In the amateur area, he entered the senior area for the first time at the European Championship and again achieved a semi-final result. After that, he focused on the Q School and reached the final of his group for the third year in a row at the second tournament . This time he made up a 1: 3 deficit and achieved a narrow 67:60 win in the decisive frame against Zhao Xintong . With this, at the age of 22, he secured professional status and the right to participate in the Main Tour tournaments for the following two seasons. To cover his expenses, Jones worked as a bartender after starting his professional career.

During his first professional season , Jones could only win two games, so he was ranked 119th in the world. In the next season he reached the round of the last 32 of the Indian Open and in six other tournaments the round of the last 64. At the end of the season he was ranked 98th in the world, which was not enough for a qualification for the next season. He achieved this by winning the group at the second Q-School tournament of the year. In the following season he reached the round of 64 five times, but was only able to survive this at the China Open , but then lost in the round of 32. In the world rankings he was now placed 102nd.

The season 2018/19 was marked by opening defeats, but he left the European Masters and the Indian Open in the round of 64 and at the Welsh Open in the round of the 32nd But he achieved his best result at the German Masters when he defeated Jack Lisowski and Ding Junhui , among others , and was only stopped in the semifinals by David Gilbert . In the world rankings he improved to 76th place, which again was not enough for a direct qualification for the next season. But thanks to his success at the German Masters, he was able to qualify for the one-year world rankings. In the 2019/20 season he could only win one game at the International Championship .

successes

  • Winner of the IBSF World 6 Reds Championship 2013

swell

  1. ↑ a b Profile of Duane Jones on CueTracker (as of August 18, 2018)
  2. ↑ Snooker: Wales Under-16s captain Duane Jones vows to bounce back after ranking final defeat. Wales Online, February 12, 2009, accessed August 2, 2015 .
  3. ^ A b c Jonathan Davies: Resilient Jones realizes his snooker dream by securing professional status. Snooker News, May 27, 2015, accessed August 2, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Jones wins IBSF World 6 Reds Championship in Carlow. Welsh Snooker, October 2013, accessed August 2, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Tinker, Tailor… Snooker Player? In: wst.tv. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 31, 2019, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Ron Florax: Duane Jones - Season 2015-2016 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b c d Ron Florax: Ranking History For Duane Jones. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ron Florax: Duane Jones - Season 2016-2017 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Ron Florax: Duane Jones - Season 2017-2018 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Ron Florax: Duane Jones - Season 2018-2019 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Ron Florax: Duane Jones - Season 2019-2020 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 1, 2020 .

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SURNAME Jones, Duane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION welsh snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1993