Jak Jones

Jak Jones
birthday	29th July 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Cwmbran , Wales
nationality	Wales
professional	2010/11, 2013–2015, 2016–
Prize money	£ 145,992 as of August 30, 2020
Highest break	139 ( Shanghai Masters 2014 Qualification)
Century Breaks	25 (as of August 30, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	70 ( December 2019– )
Current WRL location	67 (as of August 17, 2020)
Best results
Ranked tournaments	Round of 16 (4 ×)

Jak Jones (born July 29, 1993 in Cwmbran ) is a Welsh snooker player .

Career

Jones tried to qualify for the 2010/11 snooker season on the Pontin's International Open Series for the Snooker Main Tour . Despite reaching the finals in one of the tournaments, he was only tenth in the tournament series and thus did not get a Main Tour ticket for the time being. After all, when he won the EBSA U19 European Championship in 2010, he achieved the status of professional snooker for the first time. In the final he defeated Anthony McGill 6: 4.

In his first Main Tour season, Jones reached the round of 32 in tournaments of the PTC series only twice . In full ranking tournaments he only managed to beat David Gilbert at the 2011 Welsh Open . As a result, he could not hold on to the main tour.

During the 2011/12 snooker season , Jones took part in nine of the twelve tournaments of the 2011/12 Players Tour Championship . He achieved his best result when he reached the round of 16 of the PTC Event 2 . He defeated the professionals Anthony Hamilton , James Wattana and Sam Craigie before he failed to Rory McLeod . In the end he was the third best amateur player with a shared 75th place in the PTC prize money ranking behind Craig Steadman and Kyren Wilson .

First professional years

In April 2013 Jones won one of the three finals of the EBSA Qualifying Tour and thus received a two-year tour ticket for the 2013/14 and 2014/15 snooker seasons . While there were only initial defeats in the first year, he was able to reach the second qualifying round in the second year at the Australian Goldfields Open 2014 and the Shanghai Masters 2014 . There were also minor successes at the PTC tournaments. At the end of the season he even made it into round 3 of the world championship . Nevertheless, he stayed in the two-year ranking at the bottom of the world rankings and fell out of the tour again.

In February 2015 he became European Champion with a 7: 4 win in the final against Jamie Rhys Clarke and qualified for the Main Tour seasons 2016/17 and 2017/18 .

Season 2016/17

In his first tournament Jones made it to the second round, losing 4-0 to Mark Williams . Numerous defeats followed in the qualifying rounds. But at the English Open , a tournament without qualification, Jones was able to win his first round game against Brandon Sargeant 4-0. In the second round he defeated the Englishman Elliot Slessor 4: 3, in the third round he even won against Ding Junhui . It was not until the round of 16 that Jones lost 3-4 against Anthony Hamilton . Jones was also successful at the next tournament. After defeating Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in qualifying , he defeated the much better seeded Jimmy Robertson . In the second round he lost to defending champion John Higgins . After repeated defeats Jones succeeded in the snooker shout-out of the round of 16, where he was defeated by Shaun Murphy . Jones ended the season with a first-round defeat in qualifying for the 2017 World Snooker Championship .

Season 2017/18

After two defeats in qualifying, Jones clinched his first victory at the Paul Hunter Classic 2017 . But after the 4: 1 against Saqib Nasir , Jones lost 2: 4 to Peter Lines . At the European Masters 2017 , Jones defeated the Irish Fergal O'Brien in qualifying , but lost to former world champion Ken Doherty in the first round . At the UK Championship and the Northern Ireland Open Jones was able to win his first round game, but both times he lost his second round game with a white wash . Jones also survived the first round of the snooker shoot-out , but then lost 1:84 (based on points earned) against the eventual winner Michael Georgiou . In the further course of the season Jones reached the second round three more times, but always lost. At the World Cup he lost in the first qualifying round to Robbie Williams . He finished the season on world number 82, which was not enough for a qualification for the next season. Jones qualified through the Q School, however .

Third attempt

The season 2018/19 started for Jak Jones with a 2: 4 defeat in qualifying for the Riga Masters against Robert Milkins . Jones won his qualifier for the World Open 5: 4 against Liam Highfield and he survived the first round with a 5: 3 win over Zhang Anda . In the next round he lost to Xiao Guodong .

successes

Final participation

output	year	competition	Final opponent	Result
Amateur tournaments
Second	2009	PIOS 2009/10 - Event 4	Jamie Jones	0: 6
winner	2010	U19 European Championship	Anthony McGill	6: 4
winner	2016	European Championship	Jamie Rhys Clarke	7: 4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile of Jak Jones at CueTracker (as of August 22, 2018)
2. ↑ 2009 PIOS - Event 4. cuetracker.net, accessed on February 21, 2016 . 
3. ↑ 2010 European Under-19 Championships. cuetracker.net, accessed February 21, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Jak Jones  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile of Jak Jones on CueTracker
• Player profile at Pro Snooker Blog
• Jak Jones in snooker Database (English)