Graham Miles

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Graham Miles
birthday May 11, 1941
place of birth Birmingham , England
date of death October 12, 2014
Place of death Walsall , England
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 1971-1996
Prize money £ 81,695
Highest break 139 UK Championship 1978
Century Breaks 16
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 5

Graham Miles (born May 11, 1941 in Birmingham , England , † October 12, 2014 in Walsall , England) was an English snooker player .

Career

Miles began his professional career in 1971. In the first few years he rarely appeared in major tournaments. However, he gained more attention when he reached the final of the 1974 World Snooker Championship . Although he lost to Ray Reardon at 12:22 , it was the high point of his career. In the same year he won the invitation tournament Pot Black against John Spencer after he was nominated for the sick Fred Davis . Miles won the same tournament again in 1975: In the final, he prevailed against Dennis Taylor . In the Masters 1976 he was again against Ray Reardon in a final, but could not beat him again.

After Miles did not get beyond the quarter-finals in ranked tournaments in the 1977/78 season, the 1978/79 season was much more successful, but without winning a title: At the UK Championship 1978 he defeated Rex Williams and Willie Thorne before reaching the semi-finals knocked out against eventual tournament winner Doug Mountjoy . During the tournament he played - with a 139 - the highest break in tournament history at the time. In January 1979 he reached the final of the Holsten Lager International, in which he lost 7:11 to John Spencer. On the way there he was able to prevail against John Pulman , Dennis Taylor and Alex Higgins . While he only made it to the round of 16 in the subsequent World Cup, he was able to advance to the finals again at Pontins Professional in 1979, but then lost to Doug Mountjoy.

Miles started with John Spencer and Fred Davis in 1979 in the first edition of the World Team Cup for England. In the final they lost 3:14 against the Wales team. Miles celebrated his last tournament win at the Tolly Cobbold Classic 1981 in Ipswich with a win against Cliff Thorburn . During the 1980s he lost more and more ground in the snooker world rankings. His final entry into the round of 32 in a full ranking tournament was at the 1987 UK Championship . He played his last ranking tournament in 1994; for the last time in the world snooker rankings it was listed in 1996. Miles played his last invitation tournament at Seniors Pot Black in 1997.

Since Miles was aiming the balls with his left eye and had a large chin, his way of bringing the left eye in line with the cue was distinctive. He held the cue very close to his left ear, which is why it was jokingly said that Miles would play "by ear". After his career he ran two snooker clubs in Sandwell ( West Midlands ), and another in Crewe ( Cheshire ).

Miles died in Walsall on October 12, 2014 at the age of 73. He was married and had a son.

successes

Tournament victories

Final participation

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Career-total Statistics for Graham Miles - Professional Results. In: Cuetracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed March 5, 2016 .
  2. ^ Paul Suart: Birmingham snooker star Graham Miles reveals truth about Alex Higgins. . In: Birminghammail.net . Retrieved October 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ Everton, Clive (Ed.) Snooker Scene, January 1978, pp. 23-27.
  4. ^ Everton Clive (Ed.) Snooker Scene, February 1979, pp. 13-15.
  5. ^ Everton, Clive (Ed.) Snooker Scene, June 1979, p. 21.
  6. ↑ Everton, Clive (Ed.) Snooker Scene, December 1979, pp. 5-9.
  7. ^ Paul Suart: Birmingham snooker pundit pays tribute to 'Hurricane' Higgins. . In: Birminghammail.net . Retrieved October 15, 2014.
  8. ↑ BBC Sport - Graham Miles: Former World Snooker finalist dies aged 73 . In: BBC Sport . Retrieved October 15, 2014.
  9. ↑ Graham Miles Dies . In: inside-snooker.com . Retrieved October 15, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Miles, Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2014
Place of death Walsall , England , UK