James Leadbetter

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James Leadbetter
birthday 23rd December 1980 (age 39)
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 2003/04, 2006/07
Prize money £ 14,450
Highest break 141
Century Breaks 15th
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 76 (2007)

James Leadbetter (born December 23, 1980 ) is an English snooker player from Sale near Manchester . In the 2000s he was on the professional tour for two seasons .

Career

At the age of 19, James Leadbetter tried his hand at a Challenge Tour tournament for the first time , with which one could qualify for the professional tour. In the last sixteen he was eliminated. In the following year he was represented in three tournaments and won a few games. At the Benson & Hedges Championship , a professional tournament open to amateurs, he defeated long-time professional Stefan Mazrocis . His breakthrough came on his third Challenge Tour attempt in 2002/03. He improved from tournament to tournament, reached the second round in the third tournament and was in the final of the last tournament after victories over experienced ex-professionals such as Scott MacKenzie and David McDonnell in the final. Even though he lost 6-2 to Kurt Maflin , he qualified for the 2003/04 professional season via the tour standings .

The first professional year was an apprenticeship year, he lost the first three opening matches, two of them 4-5. Only at the Welsh Open did he beat Jason Prince . Then he was eliminated from the remaining four ranked tournaments again in round 1, at the World Cup he even lost the pre-qualification game against Mike Hallett, who is no longer one of the top 128 . In the world rankings , he found himself way down in 125th place and lost his professional status.

The following Challenge Tour was not very successful, from 2005 things looked better in the PIOS Tour, which was expanded to 8 qualification tournaments . In the second tournament he was in the final, which he lost 3: 6 against Mark Joyce . Tournament 7 only ended in the quarterfinals for him. Four times, however, he did not get beyond the last 64 and so it was only enough for 17th place in the 8th Main Tour places to be awarded in the overall ranking. The English national association EASB gave him one of his two wildcards and so Leadbetter returned to the main tour in the 2006/07 season .

Although he started his second attempt in the professional field again with a 4-5 opening defeat at the Northern Ireland Trophy , at the Grand Prix he already won three matches in the preliminary group, even if it wasn't enough for the main tournament. At the UK Championship he defeated Chris Melling 9-3 and at the Welsh Open Alfie Burden 5-3. In other tournaments he had no chance against players like Judd Trump and Liang Wenbo . With only 7 ranking tournaments in the season, it was therefore very difficult to improve far enough at the final World Cup . After the successful pre-qualification against Les Dodd , he defeated Chris Norbury in round 1 with a century break in the decision frame with 10: 9. After a clear 10: 3 over Stuart Pettman he reached the round of 64, which was also his best result in a ranking tournament. The subsequent defeat against John Parrott also meant that he could not move up to the top 64 in the world rankings, rather he fell out of the professional tour for the second time as 76th.

He immediately tried again on the PIOS Tour and also reached the semi-finals in the sixth tournament, but otherwise he didn't collect very many points and with 21st place he clearly missed the top 8 of the overall ranking. A success for Leadbetter, however, was the Pontins-Pro-Am-Tour that took place in Prestatyn this season . In 6 tournaments professionals and amateurs met each other and he was able to defeat the top 32 player Stuart Bingham . He reached the eighth finals twice and the quarterfinals once, thus qualifying for the Grand Final tournament. However, he was eliminated in round 1 with 3: 4 against Martin Gould . He then stopped his professional ambitions at the age of 27 and concentrated on his professional career as an aircraft pilot.

Leadbetter remained active in amateur snooker. Although it was a one-time, unsuccessful foray into the Players Tour Championship 2010, the Snookerbacker Classic , a renowned amateur tournament series, he reached the final of the seventh tournament in 2013 and defeated Sydney Wilson 4: 3.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

Amateur tournaments:

  • Winner: Snookerbacker Classic (2014 - Qualifier 7)

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Profile of James Leadbetter on CueTracker (as of January 28, 2018)
  2. ↑ Snooker stars find pot is empty. Manchester Evening News, August 12, 2004, accessed January 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ PIOS 2005/06 Top 20 (forum contribution). havenforum.co.uk, May 13, 2006, accessed January 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Pontin's International Open Series 2007/2008 ( Memento from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b SB Classic Leeds: Lam and Ledz Leap into Grand Finals. Snookerbacker, December 2, 2013, accessed January 28, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Leadbetter, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1980