Ian Anderson (snooker player)

Ian Anderson
birthday	2nd April 1946 (age 74)
nationality	Australia
professional	1973 - 1992
Prize money	£ 10,339
Highest break	99 ( Australian Masters 1984 )
World rankings
Highest WRL place	19 ( 1975 - 1977 )
Best results
Ranked tournaments	1 × round of 16 ( Snooker World Championship 1975 )
Other professional tournaments	1 × winner ( Australian Masters 1979 )
Amateur tournaments	1 × round of the last 32 ( Pontins Spring Open 1979 )

Ian Anderson (born April 2, 1946 ) is a former Australian snooker player , who spent a total of 19 years as a professional player between 1973 and 1992, and is now a billiard functionary in the office of President of the World Pool-Billiard Association and the World Confederation of Billiard Sports .

Career

Anderson first drew attention to himself when he took part as an amateur in the Australian Professional Championship in 1971 and lost his opening game with 3:18 to Eddie Charlton . Also on the issue of next year participated Anderson, but lost all its three group matches. Eventually he officially became a professional player in 1973.

First professional years and world rankings

Anderson took part during his first professional season only in the Australian Professional Championship and for the first time in the Snooker World Championship , but lost each of his opening game. In the next season , Anderson lost his opening game at the Australian Professional Championship , but won it against Lou Condo at the World Snooker Championship held in Australia . As a result, he was performed on the Order of Merit of the 1975/76 season in 19th place, which he kept despite his opening defeat to Jackie Rea at the next snooker world championship on the first snooker world rankings , valid for the following season .

After he did not play a single game during this season, in the 1977/78 season only participated unsuccessfully in the Australian Professional Championship and during the following season he reached the final of the Australian Professional Championship with victories over Paddy Morgan and Philip Tarrant and there with 23:19 against Eddie Charlton lost, but apart from that lost his opening games in all tournaments, he slipped to 25th place in the world rankings. In the meantime he was able to win a professional tournament for the only time against Perrie Mans at the Australian Masters . In the two following seasons 1979/80 and 1980/81 Anderson finally only took part in the qualification for the snooker world championship, but gave up his game in 1980 without a fight and lost to Dave Martin in 1981 , so that he lost his world rankings at the end of the latter season and thus was considered an unset professional player.

Return to the world rankings

In the following season Anderson took part again only in the qualification for the Snooker World Championship , but lost to the Englishman Pat Houlihan . In the 1982/83 season he took part in a total of four tournaments, but was only able to win a few games at the Australian Masters , which was the only tournament not a world ranking tournament and in which Anderson survived the group phase and narrowly lost to Steve Davis in the semifinals .

Only in the next season was he able to win a game in a ranked tournament for the first time with a 10: 4 victory over Gerry Watson at the snooker world championship, but lost, apart from this game, all other games of the season, so that he was still an unsettled professional player started. Only after he was able to win a game again in the 1984/85 season against Tony Kearney in qualifying for the World Snooker Championship , he was subsequently led to 84th place in the world rankings.

Last professional years

In the 1985/86 season but Anderson could not win a single game on their own before going into the next season on its own next to the quarterfinals of the Australian Professional Championship with wins over Bill Oliver and Tommy Murphy also the Round of 64, so the first main round, the Grand Prix , in which he was eliminated by Cliff Wilson . If he had fallen to 116th place in the world rankings in the meantime, he was able to compensate for this loss and subsequently ranked 100th.

In the 1987/88 season , Anderson was able to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Professional Championship both at the 1987 International Open and at the Grand Prix, the round of the last 96, but was eliminated. In the next season he was finally only able to win one game at the Australian Professional Championship before he did not play a single professional game after this season. On the world rankings he gradually slipped, so that he was led to 147th place during the 1991/92 season . At the end of this season, Anderson ended his professional career after 19 years. Following this, Anderson became an official in billiards. He is President of the World Pool-Billiard Association and, since 2017, President of the World Confederation of Billiard Sports .

successes

output	year	competition	Final opponent	Result
Professional tournaments
Second	1978	Australian Professional Championship	Eddie Charlton	19:23
winner	1979	Australian Masters	Perrie Mans	unknown

Web links

Commons : Ian Anderson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Profile of Ian Anderson on CueTracker
• Ian Anderson in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ron Florax: Career Total Statistics For Ian Anderson - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Ron Florax: Ranking History For Ian Anderson. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chris Turner: Historical World Rankings. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2011, archived from the original on June 8, 2012 ; accessed on January 4, 2020 (English).  
4. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1971-1972 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
5. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1972-1973 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
6. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1973-1974 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
7. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1974-1975 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
8. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1975-1976 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
9. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1977-1978 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
10. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1978-1979 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
11. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1978-1979 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
12. ↑ Chris Turner: Australian Masters - Invitation Event. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2008, archived from the original on September 30, 2010 ; accessed on January 4, 2020 (English).  
13. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1979-1980 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
14. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1980-1981 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
15. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1981-1982 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
16. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1982-1983 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
17. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1983-1984 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
18. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1984-1985 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
19. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1985-1986 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
20. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1986-1987 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
21. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1987-1988 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
22. ↑ Ron Florax: Ian Anderson - Season 1988-1989 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 4, 2020 .  
23. ↑ WPA board. World Pool-Billiard Association , accessed January 4, 2020 .  
24. ↑ Board contacts. World Confederation of Billiard Sports , accessed January 4, 2020 .  
25. ^ History. World Confederation of Billiard Sports , accessed January 4, 2020 .