Gary Thomson

Gary Thomson
birthday	7th September 1977
place of birth	Glasgow
nationality	Scotland
professional	1995-97, 2003/04
Prize money	£ 17,007
Highest break	139
Century Breaks	9
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	87 (2004)

Gary Thomson (born September 7, 1977 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish snooker player . Between 1995 and 2004 he played a total of 3 years as a professional on the Main Tour

Career

Gary Thomson only began playing snooker at the age of 16 and less than a year later he took part in the qualifying rounds for the professional tournaments for the first time in the 1995/96 season . He won a few rounds, but without getting into the bottom 128 of a tournament. His best result was reaching the fourth round at the World Cup . His first place in the world rankings was 366 after this season. In the second year he only survived four qualifying rounds at the European Open and lost one round before the last 128. As number 258 in the rankings he had no chance of winning the newly established Main Tour to qualify and so he had to go on the second rate UK tour . But even there he played no role in the higher tournament rounds.

He played as an amateur for six years and also took part in the open tournaments of the Main Tour, the Benson & Hedges Championship and the World Championship . In 2001 he found a sponsor who made professional training possible for him and provided the entry fees. In the same year he won the title at the Scottish Amateur Championship . A year later he was again in the final and lost to David McLellan . The third final in a row he lost to James McBain .

From 2001 he also played the qualifying tournaments of the Challenge Tour . In the 2002/03 season he reached the semi-finals in two of the four tournaments, defeating Joe Jogia and Martin Gould , among others . He qualified for the 2003/04 Main Tour through the overall ranking of the tour . The season went really well and he finished in the last 64 at both the Welsh Open and the Players Championship in Scotland and defeated three top 64 players with Alfie Burden , Shaun Murphy and Marcus Campbell , but at the big tournaments like the UK Championship and the World Championship he retired - each after an opening win over Luke Fisher - in round 2. He did not collect enough points to get over 87th place in the world rankings, which was tantamount to being excluded from the Main Tour again.

He attempted an immediate return via the Challenge Tour, but in 2004/05 he only won a single match in four tournaments. The following year the Pontin's International Open Series (PIOS) was introduced with eight qualifying tournaments, but after two tournaments without a breakthrough he gave it up and did not appear the next year. In 2007/08 he tried again and at least reached the last sixteen in one tournament, but he only played five tournaments and was also eliminated twice in the first round, so that he had no chance in the tour ranking with 62nd place. In the same year he also played at the European Championship and reached the round of 16 there. After a long break, he managed to qualify for the World Open at the 2010 Rileys Club tournament in Glasgow . But in the first game he failed against Lasse Münstermann . The same fate befell him at two tournaments of the newly introduced Players Tour Championship (PTC), in which he subsequently participated. Again a few years passed in which he only played in the amateur field. In 2014 he made it to the final of the Scottish Championship again and missed the title chance against Robert Carlisle for the third time. In the following years he tried twice unsuccessfully to qualify for the Main Tour via the Q School , played in some PTC tournaments and took part in the amateur world championship . In 2015 he made it to the round of 16 there.

Gary Thomson is a fan of the German football club Schalke 04 , he has the Twitter account Schalke_GT and was known by the betting company Betfair under the name Schalke04 .

successes

Ranking tournaments:

• Round of 64: Welsh Open ( 2004 ), Players Championship (2004)

Amateur tournaments:

• Scottish champion (2001; runner-up in 2002, 2003, 2014)

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Profile of Gary Thomson at CueTracker (as of 2018)
2. ↑ Paul Hunter Classic 2017 - Players. Gary Thomson (SCT). (No longer available online.) World Snooker, archived from the original on March 5, 2018 ; accessed on March 3, 2018 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} Gary Thomson: World Open, Mission Impossible? Snookerbacker, August 19, 2010, accessed March 3, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Pontin's International Open Series 2006/2007 ( Memento from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Gary Thomson's Twitter account. Twitter , November 2014, accessed March 3, 2018 . 

Web links

• Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)
• Gary Thomson in the Snooker Database