Jamie Curtis-Barrett

Jamie Curtis-Barrett
birthday	19th April 1984 (age 36)
nationality	England
professional	2016-2018
Prize money	£ 11,502
Highest break	134 ( Shanghai Masters 2016 , Q)
Century Breaks	5
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	91 (May / June 2017)

Jamie Curtis-Barrett (born April 19, 1984 as Jamie Barrett ) is an English snooker player from Grimsby . Between 2016 and 2018 he was a professional on the Main Tour for two years .

Career

Beginnings

Barrett started playing snooker when he was 11 and wanted to become a professional as soon as he was of age, but to no avail. When his grandfather, who was a fan of snooker and who had always accompanied him to tournaments, died, he withdrew from snooker at times. In the mid-2000s he started playing again and in 2009 he found a sponsor and tried again to get into professional snooker.

With the start of the Players Tour Championship 2010, he also took part in these tournaments for professionals and amateurs. Several times he reached the main tournament with the professional players. In 2012 he tried for the first time to come to the Main Tour via the Q School , but failed in the second tournament in the semifinals. In 2014 and 2015 he tried again, but was unsuccessful. His performance gave him the chance to qualify for professional tournaments as an amateur. Twice he got a free place in 2015, but twice he lost to the professionals.

Professional years

In 2016 he lost in tournament 1 and tournament 2 in the semifinals, but he was lucky that the rule had been introduced that the four tournament best, who had not qualified directly, also got a Main Tour place. With that he became a professional at the age of 32.

Season 2016/17

Curtis-Barrett started the season with two defeats in the qualifiers for the Riga Masters and for the Paul Hunter Classic . He lost to Welshman Jamie Jones 1: 4 and to Jimmy White 2: 4. He celebrated his first professional victory in qualifying for the Shanghai Masters , where he defeated James Cahill 5-3. He lost 3-5 to Jamie Jones in the next round. At the English Open he lost 4-1 to Mark Allen in the first round . His opening game at the Northern Ireland Open he won 4-2 against Matthew Selt , then he lost 4-1 to David Gilbert . At the UK Championship he lost 6-3 to Joe Perry in the first round , as well as at the Scottish Open , where he lost 4-0 to Daniel Wells . In the qualification for the German Masters he lost 5-0 to Andrew Higginson , in the first round of the Welsh Open he was defeated by Shaun Murphy . In the shoot-out he was defeated by the Scot Anthony McGill in the second round after defeating Sam Baird . There followed three opening defeats: In the first round of the Gibraltar Open he lost 4-0 to Judd Trump , in qualifying for the China Open he was defeated by Robbie Williams . In the first qualifying round for the World Snooker Championship he lost to Jamie Jones 0:10. He finished the season on world number 122 .

Season 2017/18

The second season as a professional player began with a 4-3 victory in qualifying for the Riga Masters over the Welsh Duane Jones . He lost 4-0 to Andrew Higginson in the first round of the main tournament . He missed the main round of the China Championship by beating Stephen Maguire 1: 5 in qualifying. At the Paul Hunter Classic he defeated Chris Totten 4-2 in the first round, then lost 4-0 to Kyren Wilson . In qualifying for the Indian Open he lost 4-2 to Alfie Burden , at the World Open he lost 5-2 to Ricky Walden . At the European Masters he lost 4-1 to Neil Robertson in qualifying . He also did not survive the first round of the English Open , losing 4-2 to Li Yuan . At the International Championship he lost 6-0 to Ali Carter and at the Shanghai Masters he was defeated by Michael White 5-1 in qualifying. Curtis-Barret celebrated a victory at the Northern Ireland Open , where he defeated Ian Preece 1: 4 in the first round . He then lost 4-0 to Yan Bingtao . In the first round of the UK Championship he lost 6-0 to Ryan Day . He was able to record another victory at the Scottish Open , where he defeated Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 4: 3 in the first round. In the second round he lost 4-1 to the Chinese Li Hang . In the qualification for the German Masters he was defeated by Barry Hawkins 1: 5. In the shoot-out he lost to Zhang Yong 26:40 on points, another defeat followed with a 1: 4 against Ian Burns in the first round of the Welsh Open . At the Gibraltar Open he defeated Leo Fernandez 3-4 , but then lost 4-0 to Jamie Rhys Clarke . At the China Open he lost 3: 6 to Tom Ford in qualifying . In the first qualifying round for the World Snooker Championship he was defeated by Alfie Burden 6:10. He finished the season on world number 115 , which was not enough for a qualification for the next season. He tried to qualify through the Q School but failed in all tournaments in round 2 or 3, in the second and third against the group winner.

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Profile of Jamie Curtis-Barrett on CueTracker (as of June 1, 2018)
2. ↑ Players on the Main Tour 2017/2018. (PDF) In: snooker.org. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 20, 2016, accessed June 5, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Jamie dreams of breaking into the top flight Jamie dreams of breaking into the top flight ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Grimsby Telegraph, October 22, 2009  
4. ↑ Ron Florax: Jamie Barrett - Season 2016-2017 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, 2017, archived from the original on August 17, 2018 ; accessed on August 17, 2018 (English).  
5. ↑ World Rankings. WPBSA , May 2, 2017, archived from the original on August 17, 2018 ; accessed on August 17, 2018 (English).  
6. ↑ Ron Florax: Jamie Barrett - Season 2017-2018 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, 2018, archived from the original on August 17, 2018 ; accessed on August 17, 2018 (English).  
7. ↑ World Rankings. WPBSA , May 7, 2018, archived from the original on August 17, 2018 ; accessed on August 17, 2018 (English).  
8. ↑ Ron Florax: Jamie Barrett - Season 2018-2019 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, archived from the original on August 17, 2018 ; accessed on August 17, 2018 (English).  

Web links

Commons : Jamie Curtis-Barrett  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Jamie Curtis-Barrett at World Snooker (English)
• Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)