Graham Cripsey

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Graham Cripsey
birthday December 8, 1954
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 1982-1996
Prize money £ 46,130
Highest break 131
Century Breaks 8th
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 46 (1988/89)

Graham Cripsey (born December 8, 1954 ) is an English snooker player from Skegness . From 1982 to 1996 he was active as a professional for 14 years .

Career

When Graham Cripsey first took part in professional tournaments, he was already 27 years old. He was the first player to be coached by Derek Hill - known as Big Del . Hill discovered Ronnie O'Sullivan in the early 1990s and coached many other top players. Cripsey began his career in the professional tournaments in the 1982/83 season and reached the round of 48 at the 1983 World Cup with a win over Dennis Hughes. The following year he was in two ranking tournaments under the bottom 64. 1984/85 he reached at the International Open and the UK Championship the second round. In the world rankings he was then ranked 89th. Even in the English professional championship , which did not count towards the ranking , he survived the first round with a 9-0 win over Bernard Bennett . In the 1985/86 season he came under the last 32 twice, at the Classic and also at the UK Championship , he reached the main tournament. With Cliff Wilson and John Spencer he beat two players from the top 24 of the world rankings. In 1987 Bill Werbeniuk was added, whom he defeated at the British Open when he was among the last 32. At the World Cup in the same year, he missed the entry into the main round for the second time after losing to David Taylor with 7:10. With this result, however, he had already made it to 48th place in the two-year ranking of the world rankings.

In the 1987/88 season , the Englishman achieved his greatest success in the rankings: At the Grand Prix he made it to the round of 16. There was also another round of the last 32 at the British Open and for the third time the round of the last 48 at the World Cup . The entry into the finals in the Crucible Theater should be denied him in his career. Although he rose to 46th place in the rankings, he had reached his climax, although he had shown with victories over Barry West and Eugene Hughes that he could keep up with top 32 players. The 1988/89 season he began with four opening defeats in the ranking tournaments. The Classic stood out once again, after a victory over Steve Longworth he was once again among the last 32. Two wins were added, but there was also a first round defeat at the World Championship. However, he was successful in non-ranked tournaments. At the last British professional championship he reached the round of 16, as well as at a smaller tournament in a WPBSA tournament series. The following year was even worse, when he only won two matches in ranking tournaments. Again a WPBSA tournament with a round of 16 was the best result of the season. Since the last successful year fell out of the two-year ranking, he was no longer in the top 64 in 1990.

In a tournament in a special format, the snooker shoot-out , in which a single frame decided on progress, he achieved his best professional result in 1990: He reached the quarter-finals and then lost just 62:66 against Alan McManus . Although he reached the bottom of 64 twice in ranked tournaments the following season, he also slipped out of the top 100. In 1991 the professional tour was opened to everyone. This allowed him to stay professional, but had to play the preliminary rounds before he even made it into the bottom 128. But already the first two games of the season he lost 5-0 and in total he only won 4 games that year. At the Asian Open he played against Sean Storey . Although his opponent played 13 fouls in a row in one frame, Cripsey lost 92-93. With 185 points in one frame they set a new record. Cripsey lost the match 1-5.

The following year Cripsey managed only one victory in a minor ranking tournament, in which there were hardly any ranking list points, and so he fell from the top 128 to 194th place. In 1993/94, he therefore had to play more pre-qualifying rounds. He couldn't make it to the last 128. The following year he only played two tournaments and in 1996/96 only the pre-qualification for the World Cup. He then gave up professional tournaments at the age of 41.

Graham Cripsey comes from a showman family that has been running a "Wall of Death", a round steep wall for motorcycle tricks in their hometown of Skegness , since the 1920s . At the age of 12 he became a steep wall driver himself. He lost a thumb in a driving accident. He gave up the business during his snooker career, but when it drew to a close in the mid-90s, he got back in. In 2004 he finally gave up the steep face for reasons of age and lack of successors.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Graham Cripsey on CueTracker (as of March 9, 2018)
  2. ^ Snookered players turn to Hill , Skegness Standard, June 7, 2006
  3. ↑ Liverpool Victoria UK Championship 1997 - Report. snooker.org, April 20, 2012, accessed January 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Snooker - Malta Cup: Tony Drago Featured five times in list of major records. Malta Independent, January 17, 2008, accessed January 29, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Video: 1997 Top Gear, Wall Of Death, Classic Hearse Register , Steve Berry, Andy Wilman, BBC Worldwide, YouTube upload: March 28, 2013
  6. ↑ Wall of Death Graham Cripsey joins Father Skegness Magazine, May 5, 2010
  7. ↑ SNOOKER: Meet Del Hill, the relative unknown behind greats like Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stephen Hendry , Sam Fletcher, The Star, April 6, 2016
  8. ^ The gear box , The Telegraph, September 4, 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Cripsey, Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1954