English Amateur Championship

The English Amateur Championship (dt .: British Amateur Championship ) is a snooker tournament , which by the EASB ( English Association of Snooker and Billiards is played). The amateur nature of the tournament excludes active members of the WPBSA ( World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association ).

It is the oldest and longest-running snooker tournament in the world.

history

The tournament was the first time in 1916 Orme's Hall in London District Soho discharged; at that time still under the name Amateur Snooker Championship , initiated by Harry Hardy . It was given the addition of English in 1921. The name is misleading, however, as Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish and Irish players are also allowed to participate.

The final results for the years 1916–1920 have not been passed down. Until 1926 the final was decided on the basis of the accumulated points from seven frames . Then the mode, which is still common today, was changed, in which a certain number of frames must be obtained. WL Crompton scored the first series of over 50 points with a break of 62 in 1925.

After the Second World War, the number of participants increased, which is why regional qualifications were introduced: There is a southern English and a northern English champions, who then compete against each other in the entire English final. A total of five winners of the tournament later became professional world champions: John Pulman , Ray Reardon , John Spencer , Terry Griffiths and Stuart Bingham . Three other later world champions ( Joe Johnson , John Parrott and Ronnie O'Sullivan ) lost in the final, with O'Sullivan achieving a maximum break in 1991 during the tournament .

The youngest winner of the tournament in 2003 was Alex Davies at the age of 15 years and 10 months. In 2020, the 100th edition was held, which Ben Hancorn won.

winner

year	winner	finalist	Result
1916	Charles N. Jaques	unknown
1917	Charles N. Jaques	unknown
1918	TN Palmer	unknown
1919	Sidney Fry	unknown
1920	AR Wisdom	unknown
1921	MJ Vaughan	Sydney Fry	384: 378 *
1922	Jack McGlynn	C. Cox Jr.	423: 301 *
1923	Walter Coupe	E. Forshall	432: 337 *
1924	Walter Coupe	HG Olden	413: 333 *
1925	Jack McGlynn	WL Crompton	392: 308 *
1926	W. Nash	FTW Leaphard	383: 356 *
1927	Ollie Jackson	Tony Casey	4: 2
1928	Pat Matthews	Frank Whittall	5: 4
1929	Laurie Steeples	Frank Whittall	5: 4
1930	Laurie Steeples	Frank Whittall	5: 1
1931	Pat Matthews	Harry Kingsley	5: 4
1932	WE Bach	Ollie Jackson	5: 3
1933	E. Bedford	Albert Kershaw	5: 1
1934	Charles Beavis	Pat Matthews	5: 2
1935	Charles Beavis	Duggie Hindmarch	5: 3
1936	Pat Matthews	Charles Beavis	5: 3
1937	Kingsley Kennerley	WH Dennis	5: 3
1938	Pat Matthews	Kingsley Kennerley	5: 1
1939	Percy Bendon	Kingsley Kennerley	6: 4
1940	Kingsley Kennerley	Albert Brown	8: 7
1941 - 1945	not carried out
1946	John Pulman	Albert Brown	5: 3
1947	Chizzy Morris	Charley Kent	5: 1
1948	Sidney Battye	Tommy Postlethwaite	6: 4
1949	Tommy Gordon	Sydney Kilbank	6: 5
1950	Alf Nolan	Gary Owen	6: 5
1951	Rex Williams	Percy Bendon	6: 1
1952	/ Charles Downey	Jack Allen	6: 1
1953	Tommy Gordon	George Humphries	6: 5
1954	Geoff Thompson	Cliff Wilson	11: 9
1955	Maurice Parkin	Alf Nolan	11: 7
1956	Tommy Gordon	Ray Reardon	11: 9
1957	Ron Gross	Stan Haslam	11: 6
1958	Marcus Owen	Jack Fitzmaurice	11: 8
1959	Marcus Owen	Alan Barnett	11: 5
1960	Ron Gross	John Price	11: 4
1961	Alan Barnett	Ray Edmonds	11: 9
1962	Ron Gross	Jonathan Barron	11: 9
1963	Gary Owen	Ron Gross	11: 3
1964	Ray Reardon	John Spencer	11: 8
1965	Pat Houlihan	John Spencer	11: 3
1966	John Spencer	Marcus Owen	11: 5
1967	Marcus Owen	Sid Hood	11: 4
1968	David Taylor	Chris Ross	11: 6
1969	Ray Edmonds	Jonathan Barron	11: 6
1970	Jonathan Barron	Sid Hood	11:10
1971	Jonathan Barron	Doug French	11: 9
1972	Jonathan Barron	Ray Edmonds	11: 9
1973	Marcus Owen	Ray Edmonds	11: 6
1974	Ray Edmonds	Patsy Fagan	11: 4
1975	Sid Hood	Willie Thorne	11: 6
1976	Chris Ross	Roy Andrewartha	11: 7
1977	Terry Griffiths	Sid Hood	13: 3
1978	Terry Griffiths	Joe Johnson	13: 6
1979	Jimmy White	Dave Martin	13:10
1980	Joe O'Boye	Dave Martin	13: 9
1981	Vic Harris	George Wood	13: 9
1982	Dave Chalmers	Malcolm Bradley	13: 9
1983	Tony Jones	John Parrott	13: 9
1984	Steve Longworth	Wayne Jones	13: 8
1985	Terry Whitthread	Jim McNellan	13: 4
1986	Anthony Harris	Geoff Grennan	13: 9
1987	Mark Rowing	Sean Lanigan	13:11
1988	Barry Pinches	Craig Edwards	13: 6
1989	Nigel Bond	Barry Pinches	13:11
1990	Joe Swail	Alan McManus	13:11
1991	Steve Judd	Ronnie O'Sullivan	13:10
1992	Stephen Lee	Neil Mosley	13: 8
1993	Neil Mosley	Eddie Barker	8: 5
1994	Matthew Davies	Michael Rhodes	8: 5
1995	David Gray	Paul Hunter	8: 7
1996	Stuart Bingham	Peter Lines	8: 4
1997	David Lilley	Robert Marshall	8: 7
1998	Tim Bailey	Craig Butler	8: 3
1999	David Lilley	Andrew Norman	8: 5
2000	Nick Marsh	David Lilley	8: 5
2001	Luke Fisher	Sunit Vaswani	8: 4
2002	Martin Gould	Craig Taylor	8: 6
2003	Alex Davies	Ben Woollaston	8: 7
2004	David Lilley	Wayne Cooper	8: 6
2005	David Grace	Andy Symons-Rowe	8: 3
2006	Mark Joyce	Martin O'Donnell	8: 3
2007	Martin Gould	David Lilley	8: 7
2008	David Grace	Ben Hancorn	9: 7
2009	Jimmy Robertson	David Craggs	9: 8
2010	Jack Lisowski	Leo Fernandez	9: 2
2011	Leo Fernandez	John Whitty	10: 6
2012	Gary Wilson	Martin O'Donnell	10: 9
2013	Stuart Carrington	Ben Harrison	10: 2
2014	Ben Harrison	Antony Parsons	10: 6
2015	Michael Rhodes	Billy Joe Castle	10: 6
2016	Jamie Bodle	Wayne Townsend	10: 9
2017	Billy Joe Castle	David Lilley	10: 8
2018	Joe O'Connor	Andrew Norman	10: 3
2019	Brandon Sargeant	Jamie O'Neill	10: 7
2020	Ben Hancorn	Rory McLeod	5: 3

* cumulative score from seven frames

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} English Amateur Championship Roll of Honor. global-snooker.com, archived from the original on February 19, 2014 ; Retrieved July 8, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} English Amateur Championship. (No longer available online.) In: Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Chris Turner, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 8, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Ashok Kumar: Snooker and Billiards. DPH, New Delhi 1999, ISBN 81-7141-475-3 , p. 3 ff. (Google Books Link)
4. ^ Ronnie sees red on yellow guardian.co.uk
5. ↑ ^{a b} 2019/2020 English Amateur Championship - The 100th Final - Results. In: snookerscores.net. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , CueTracker.net, 2020, accessed February 8, 2020 .  
6. ^ Tournament History - English Amateur Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed July 8, 2016 . 

Web links

• English Amateur Championship at CueTracker