Eugene Hughes

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Eugene Hughes
birthday 4th November 1955 (age 64)
nationality IrelandIreland Ireland
professional 1981-1997
Prize money £ 225,691
Highest break 132
Century Breaks 8th
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 20 (1986/87)

Eugene Hughes (born November 4, 1955 ) is an Irish snooker player from Dún Laoghaire . In the 1980s and 1990s he played a total of 16 years on the professional tour .

Career

Promotion to the top 32

Eugene Hughes grew up in Dublin and started snooker when he was 15 . He was U19 champion and twice Irish amateur champion in snooker and in English billiards . At that time he was already playing in Pro-Am tournaments - tournaments with professionals and amateurs - and at the 1978 World Amateur Championship . In 1980 he went to a qualifying tournament for the professional tour in Sheffield and reached the final. Even though he lost to Dave Martin , he turned pro from the 1981/82 season . At his first professional tournament, the International Open , he came right under the last 32. At the Irish-Northern Irish professional championship , he lost in the semifinals to Alex Higgins . And also at the Bass and Golden Leisure Classic 1982 he defeated players like Jim Meadowcroft and secured 3rd place after losing the semi-final against Mike Hallett . The following year began again with the round of 32 at the International Open and a semi-final defeat against Higgins the Irish championship. At the world championship , he then won two rounds for the first time and reached the main tournament of the last 32 for the first time at the Crucible Theater . The two international tournaments were ranked tournaments this season and so at the end of the season he was even among the top 32 in the world rankings . In 1983/84 he reached the bottom 32 at the International Open for the third time in a row, and he achieved the same at the Classic . At the Professional Players Tournament he made it into a ranked quarter-finals for the first time. He beat Terry Griffiths, a top 10 player.

In the 1984/85 season he not only survived the round of the last 32 at the International Open , he also defeated number 5 in the world rankings Ray Reardon and Willie Thorne and achieved his best result in a ranking tournament with the semi-finals. At the British Open he made it to the quarterfinals and at the World Championship he played the final round at the Crucible for the second time and lost just under 9:10 to Reardon. At the Irish professional championship, he again missed the final by a 5-6 semi-final defeat by Dennis Taylor . In 1986 he was also his opponent in his third appearance in the Crucible . This time the Irishman won 10: 7 and had his best World Cup result when he made it to the round of 16. In addition, the round of 16 at the Classic was his best ranking result. At the Irish championship he failed again on Alex Higgins in the semifinals. In the world rankings he improved to 20th place this season, his best career placement.

As a result, the International Open remained his most successful tournament. In 1986 he reached the semi-finals for the second time, which he lost almost 8: 9 to Neal Foulds . Before that, he had beaten world number one and runner-up Steve Davis in the quarterfinals for the only time in his career . In addition, he reached the round of 16 at the UK Championship and he was once again in the main round of the World Championship , where he beat the world rankings 8 with 9:10. Joe Johnson lost. At the Irish professional championship, the semi-finals remained an insurmountable hurdle for life, this time Joe O'Boye was the final destination. During this time he was very successful as an Irish team together with the two Northern Irishmen Taylor and Higgins. In 1985 they won the Team World Cup for the first time and defended the title for the next two years. After that, Ireland and Northern Ireland were no longer allowed to compete together.

Ending professional career and amateur years

1987/88 the quarterfinals at the International Open was Hughes' best result. In non-ranked tournaments, he was two more times under the last 8. In the rankings, he stepped on the spot. The following season he reached the round of 16 at the Grand Prix . Otherwise, in ranking tournaments, including the World Cup , the round of the last 32 ended five times. And at the Irish professional championship in the semi-finals against Alex Higgins. In 1989/90 there was a round of 16 at the British Open , but only three times the round of the last 32. When he did not make it into the Crucible at the end of the season at the World Cup , he also fell out of the top 32.

In 1990 he made it to the quarter-finals again at the Grand Prix , where he lost to Jimmy White . The other results waned more and more and he never got beyond the last 64 this season. In the 1991/92 season , the round of 32 was the best result twice. He was eliminated six times in the opening round. Same thing the following season. And when he couldn't get beyond the last 64 in 1993/94, he also dropped out of the top 64 of the rankings. This meant that he had to go to the preliminary rounds of the tournaments and still managed to win fewer and fewer wins against weaker opponents. In the next two years he made no more than the round of 96 and the 1996/97 season he only came in the bottom 128 at the UK Championship. In the world rankings, he fell back to 169th place. Since after the opening of the professional tournaments at the beginning of the 90s at the beginning of the 1997/98 season, a limit on the number of professionals allowed was introduced again, he was no longer qualified for the Main Tour . He also had no chance at the qualifying tournaments and fell back on the second-rate UK tour . When he remained relatively unsuccessful there, too, he ended his professional career in 1998 at the age of 43.

Then he played the Masters tournaments at the European Championships , where he won the title in 2001 with a 6-3 win over Joe Delaney and was in the final in 2002. In 2004 he was defeated by Dene O'Kane in the final of the Masters of the World Amateur Championship . In 2007 he last competed in an international Masters Championship and then played in Irish amateur snooker.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Team competition:

Qualifying tournaments:

  • Final: Professional Ticket Event (1980)

Amateur tournaments:

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Eugene Hughes at CueTracker (as of March 14, 2018)
  2. ↑ CrossGuns Snooker Club - Club Honors. In: CrossGuns Snooker Club. Retrieved March 14, 2018 .
  3. ^ Hector Nunns: A Short History of the World Cup. Inside Snooker, June 8, 2015, accessed March 14, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hughes, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH November 4th 1955