Hugh Abernethy

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Hugh Abernethy
birthday 23rd December 1967 (age 52)
nationality ScotlandScotland Scotland
professional 1994-1997, 1998-2003, 2004-2006
Prize money £ 73,155
Highest break 135
Century Breaks 21st
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 80 (2001/02)

Hugh Abernethy (born December 23, 1967 ) is a Scottish snooker player . Between 1994 and 2006 he was active as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour for a total of 10 years .

Career

Hugh Abernethy was born in Scotland, but moved to Broadstairs in Kent in southeast England . When he first competed in professional tournaments in 1994, he was already 26 years old. He had his first success in the 1994/95 season at the European Open , where he reached the last 128. Since the professional tour was open to all players, there were long preliminary rounds and he was usually eliminated in round 1 or 2. Therefore, his first listing in the world rankings at the end of the season was only 343rd. In the following year he mostly made it to round 4 and at the Welsh Open and the World Championships in round 5. 1996/97 he started by reaching the last round 96 into the season at the Asian Classic , beating Ian McCulloch . In the second half of the season he always reached at least round 5 and even the last 128 at the Thailand Open and the World Cup .

However, he was still so ranked only 167 and since the following season the playing field in main tour and UK tour was divided, he had in the Qualifying School of the WPBSA . In the first three tournaments he was eliminated in round 2, in the last tournament he reached his group final after defeating Antony Bolsover and Barry Pinches , but then missed the decisive game against Lee Richardson 3: 5. So in the 1997/98 season he had to go to the UK Tour tournaments. There he also improved in the last tournaments and reached the quarter-finals once and the final in the fifth tournament, which he lost 5: 6 against Paul Sweeny .

In the 1998/99 season he returned to the Main Tour. In the first half of the season he had problems and only won two matches. It was not until the Thailand Masters in 1999 that he got past the third round and achieved his best ranking result: After winning over experienced players such as Joe Johnson and Jimmy White and winning a wildcard round over Atthasit Mahitthi , he reached the main tournament of a ranking event for the first time. In the round of the last 32 he then lost 3: 5 to Mark Williams . After that, however, he lost the next three opening matches again. The 1999/2000 season he then began with the move into the last 64 at the British Open . At the Benson & Hedges Championship he reached the round of 32 after victories over Graeme Dott and Barry Pinches , but this was not a ranking tournament and the top 16 in the world were not represented there either. At the Thailand Masters 2000 , however, he repeated his success from the previous year. In the ranking tournament he defeated the top 32 player Brian Morgan with 5: 0 and reached the round of the bottom 32 again. At the Scottish Open he was then again under the bottom 64. Up to the top 128 they brought him Results in the two-year ranking of the Main Tour forward. In the 2000/01 season , the Scot did not lose a single opening match and reached the round of 64 three times, but did not get beyond. In 2001, he reached 80th place in the world rankings, his career high.

In the 2001/02 season he reached the Benson & Hedges Championship after victories over Anthony Davies and the world number 20. Dominic Dale the final. But he missed the qualification for the Masters associated with the win by a 5: 9 defeat against Ryan Day . In the ranking tournaments he only got into the third round once and otherwise suffered many defeats at the beginning. This performance continued and in the following season he won only three matches in total. In 2003 he fell back to 119th place and lost his professional status a second time. In 2003/04 he therefore had to go to the Challenge Tour . In the second tournament he reached the final and won 6-0 against Gary Wilson . In the fourth tournament, the Englishman retaliated in the quarter-finals and won 5-4. Abernethy nevertheless secured one of the first 6 places in the tour classification, which meant a Main Tour ticket for the 2004/05 season . At the Grand Prix he made it right at the beginning of the last 64. He came four times this season in round 2, including at the World Championship with a victory over Matthew Selt . The one-year ranking saved him from remaining on the Main Tour, even if he only finished 14th there. In the 2006/07 season he could not add anything essential to only 6 world ranking tournaments, only at the China Open he reached the last 64. He only finished 88th at the end of the season and thus dropped out of the professional tour for the third time.

The following year he tried to return via the PIOS tour, but never got past the last 32 at the amateur tournaments. In 2007/08 he reached the quarterfinals three times, but the other weaker results in a total of 8 tournaments prevented him from coming over 14th place overall. Only the top 8 qualified for the main tour. The PIOS tournaments were also disappointing in the following two years. He only reached a quarter-finals in one tournament in 2009, otherwise all tournaments ended in the round of 32 at the latest. When the PIOS Tour was discontinued in 2010 and the Players Tour Championship was introduced, Abernethy finally ended his professional career at the age of 43.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

  • Winner: Challenge Tour (2003 - Tournament 2)
  • Finals: UK Tour (1998 - Tournament 5), WPBSA Qualifying School (1997 - Tournament 4, Group Finals )

Amateur tournaments:

  • Kent County Cup (2004/05)

swell

  1. a b c Profile of Hugh Abernethy on CueTracker (as of February 2, 2018)
  2. Pontin's International Open Series 2007/2008 ( Memento from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Kent County Cup. Kent County Billiards & Snooker Association. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .

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