James Cahill (snooker player)

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James Cahill
James Cahill
birthday 27th December 1995 (age 24)
place of birth Blackpool
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 2013–2017
since 2019
Prize money £ 105,107 (as of August 31, 2020)
Highest break 134 ( Riga Open 2014 )
Century Breaks 20 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 76 (December 2014)
Current WRL location 109 (as of August 17, 2020)

James Cahill (born December 27, 1995 in Blackpool ) is an English snooker player .

Career

James Cahill is the son of Maria Cahill Tart, who was a successful snooker player herself and ran the Rileys Pool and Snooker Club in Blackpool. Her sister is married to Stephen Hendry , so Cahill is the nephew of the seven-time snooker world champion. From early childhood on, snooker played a major role and he achieved some successes in his youth, including winning the regional U-16 championship in North West England. When he was 15, he dropped out of school and took a private tutor so he could focus on the sport.

As a 14-year-old, he took part for the first time in a professional tournament open to amateurs, the Players Tour Championship , and one year later he successfully qualified for the main round at two PTC tournaments. When he was 16, he applied to the Q School for a place as a professional player on the Snooker Main Tour . At least in the first tournament in 2012 he reached the group semi-finals. In the PTC season 2012/13 he was already in seven of the 13 tournaments in the main draw and twice survived the first round after victories over the professionals Robert Milkins and Paul Davison . In March 2013 he took part in the EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships and won the title of European Junior Champion . With the victory, at the age of 17, he got the right to start for the following two years in the professional tournaments of the Main Tour.

In the 2013/14 season there were no successes for the time being. Only at the Paul Hunter Classic 2013 was he able to advance into the last 32 with two wins. Only in the season finale, when qualifying for the snooker world championship , did he win a full ranking tournament. Accordingly, he ended the season only in 117th place in the snooker world rankings . At the beginning of the next season he was able to advance to the last 64 at the Australian Goldfields Open and again reached the third main round at the Paul Hunter Classic with wins over Dave Harold and John Higgins . Cahill's greatest achievement so far was reaching the round of 16 of the UK Championship 2014 , after beating third-placed Ding Junhui , among others . He then rose to 76th place in the world rankings, but was then only able to add one more victory, so that he would actually have dropped out of the Main Tour again. However, his results at the PTC tournaments were just enough for him to reach eighth and last place in the "European Tour Order of Merit" for non-professionals and thus extend his professional status for two more years.

The 2015/16 season was not very promising: he only survived the opening match five times, three of them at PTC tournaments, so that he always stayed in the three-digit places. It wasn't until the Paul Hunter Classic 2016 that he made it back to the third round for the first time.

In the 2018/19 season he took part in the qualification for the World Championship and, after victories over Andrew Higginson , Michael Holt and Michael Judge, was the first amateur to ever reach the main round of a professional World Cup. In the first round he surprisingly defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan with 10: 8 and was eliminated in the second round with just 12:13 against Stephen Maguire . As a result, Cahill was able to place himself on the season's one-year ranking and thus received a Main Tour place for the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons .

successes

  • U-21 European Champion 2013

swell

  1. ↑ Profile of James Cahill on CueTracker (as of April 27, 2019)
  2. ↑ World Rankings after the Coral UK Championship 2014. (PDF; 267 kB) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , December 8, 2014, archived from the original on December 14, 2014 ; accessed on December 16, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Snookered by ten pin bowling club. In: BBC Lancashire. BBC, June 26, 2009, accessed September 21, 2014 .
  4. ^ Cahill clears up to pot a pro deal , Lancashire Evening Post, March 28, 2013
  5. ↑ New star in snooker heaven - James Cahill beats thing. (No longer available online.) In: WorldSnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , December 3, 2014, archived from the original on February 18, 2016 ; Retrieved December 4, 2014 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cahill, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Blackpool , England