Fraser Patrick

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Fraser Patrick
Fraser Patrick
birthday 8th November 1985 (age 34)
place of birth Glasgow , Scotland
nationality ScotlandScotland Scotland
professional 2007/08
2013–2017
from 2019
Prize money £ 58,991 as of August 31, 2020
Highest break 139 ( UK Championship 2014 )
Century Breaks 11 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 75 (2014/15)
Current WRL location 120 (as of August 17, 2020)

Fraser Patrick (born November 8, 1985 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish snooker player . Between 2007 and 2017 he played on the professional tour for a total of five years , and through the Q School 2019 he qualified for the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons .

Career

Entry into professional snooker

At the age of 14, Fraser Patrick represented Scotland at the European Championships in Stirling , Scotland , but he was eliminated with 2: 3 wins in the group stage. Even at the Junior World Championship held at the same place , he did not survive the group stage a year later. From 2002 to 2005 he took part in the tournaments of the Challenge Tour - a qualifying tournament series for the Snooker Main Tour . There were no great successes, he could only reach a round of 16. Also in the follow-up tournament series, the Pontin's International Open Series 2005/06, he could not achieve better results.

In 2006, at the age of 20, he won the Scottish National Championship with a 7-3 final win against Robert Stephen , and the following year he lost the title just 6-7 to James McBain . At the European Championships in 2006 he reached the second round. As one of the best Scottish players he was then nominated by the Scottish Association for the 2007/08 season on the Main Tour. In his first year as a professional, he only managed four wins in the group stage at the 2007 Grand Prix (against Lee Walker , Paul Davies , Liu Chuang and Ian Preece ). In all other tournaments he was eliminated in the first round (against Leo Fernandez , Barry Hawkins , Liang Wenbo , Mark Joyce and three times against Matthew Selt ). So he could not secure his stay on the main tour.

Second attempt and several professional years

After that, the Scot put his ambitions back and it was only with the introduction of the Q School in 2011 that he tried to regain his professional status. In both 2011 and 2012 he was able to play his way to the final of his group, but then had to admit defeat to Adam Wicheard and Michael Wasley . Nevertheless, due to his good Q-School results, he was allowed to take part in the tournaments of the 2012/13 snooker season as a substitute player with amateur status . He achieved his best result at the German Masters 2013 : With victories over Michael White and Martin Gould , he qualified for the main round in Berlin. There he already led 3: 1 against Ali Carter in the round of 32, but had to admit defeat 3: 5. Also in the qualification for the snooker world championship 2013 he scored another respectable success with the 10: 6 against Luca Brecel .

Then he was able to prevail at the third Q-School attempt in the third and last tournament in 2013 in the final with 4: 3 against Ashley Carty and thus qualified again for the Main Tour. This time all new professionals received a two-year tour ticket. The 2013/14 snooker season started with little success for Patrick. Only in three tournaments of the Players Tour Championship (PTC) could he play his way into the last 64. There he failed because of John Astley , Jack Lisowski and Robert Milkins . He has already lost the opening game in all major ranking tournaments. The second year went much better. Already at the first PTC tournament in Yixing he reached the third round, at the Wuxi Classic he defeated Jimmy White in qualification and reached the main tournament. At the Paul Hunter Classic in Fürth he defeated Stuart Bingham and Matthew Stevens and made it to the round of 16, his best tournament result. After beating another top 24 player in the UK Championship with Ryan Day and reaching the round of 32, he moved up to 75th place in the world rankings . A smaller success without any impact on the ranking was the entry into the last 32 in the snooker shoot-out , a special format with a winning frame. Until the end of the season he struggled to get into the top 64, which would have automatically secured him to stay on the Main Tour, but despite further qualifying victories another good ranking result was missing and he got stuck in this area. However, he was in the bottom 32 of two other PTC tournaments. In the tour ranking, he was one of the top 8 players not yet qualified for the Main Tour and was thus again allowed to start in the professional tournaments for two years.

His fourth year as a professional was again a major setback. Reaching the third qualifying round at the 2015 Australian Goldfields Open was still his best result. He lost his opening match six times in the ranking tournaments. And also in the tournaments of the Players Tour he never got past the second round this season. He could not make up for this in the following year either. Two qualifying wins were followed by a series of defeats at the beginning. In two tournaments in the Home Series, the English Open and the Northern Ireland Open , he was among the last 32, but then came out of the first round four times. Two more victories in the final spurt of the 2016/17 season did not put him in the top 100 of the ranking, which is why he had to leave the Main Tour for the second time. The subsequent Q-School participation was disappointing with only two wins.

Patrick then concentrated again on the amateur tournaments and reached the semi-finals at the 2018 European Championships . He lost to eventual winner Harvey Chandler 2: 6. At the WSF Championship 2018 he was among the last 32. Finally, in the same year at the age of 32, he won his second national title with a 7: 4 final victory over the defending champion Ross Vallance.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

Amateur tournaments:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile of Fraser Patrick at CueTracker (as of May 22, 2018)
  2. ↑ World Rankings after the Coral UK Championship 2014. (PDF; 267 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , December 8, 2014, archived from the original on December 14, 2014 ; accessed on December 16, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Player Profile: Fraser Patrick ( English ) In: rkgsnooker.com . Retrieved September 30, 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME Patrick, Fraser
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Scotland