Jamie Jones

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Jamie Jones
Jamie Jones
birthday 14th February 1988 (age 32)
place of birth Neath
nationality WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wales
Nickname (s) The Welsh Warrior
professional 2006–2019, since 2020
Prize money £ 437,080
Highest break 147
Century Breaks 98
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 29 (May – July 2012)

Jamie Jones (born February 14, 1988 in Neath ) is a Welsh snooker player .

Career

Youth and the start to a professional career

Jamie Jones started playing snooker when he was 10 years old. He had prominent support in his youth and he trained with Matthew Stevens and Dominic Dale . Michael White , who is three years his junior and also comes from Neath in South Wales, is one of his childhood friends . As a 14-year-old, Jones played a maximum break in an official tournament in 2002 , which was the record for the youngest player to do so. In 2004 he won the European Under-19 Championship and the Welsh Under-21 Championship at the age of 16.

He then tried to become a professional player via the Challenge Tour . He participated in the four qualifying tournaments and reached the quarterfinals once, defeating Kurt Maflin and Lee Spick , among others . The following year the Pontin's International Open Series was introduced with eight tournaments and although he made it into the quarterfinals three times, he only reached 12th place overall. However, the other qualification criteria for the Snooker Main Tour had changed with the tournament . Among other things, there were six free places that the five national associations in the British Isles were allowed to freely allocate. Jamie Jones was nominated as reigning national champion by the Welsh Federation and was allowed to participate in the 2006/07 snooker season . He reached the second round three times that year in ranked tournaments, including the UK Championship . At the Grand Prix in Aberdeen , he survived the qualification with victories over Ricky Walden and Tian Pengfei . In the group stage he won against Mark King and Michael Judge , but was eliminated anyway. That was only enough for 82nd place in the world rankings and not enough for an extension of the Main Tour membership.

The following year he made a second attempt on the PIOS tour. This time he won a tournament and reached the semi-finals once and the second round four times. With this, he reached 4th place in the PIOS rating and again qualified for the professional tour. In the 2008/09 season he was particularly successful at the UK Championship and the World Championship . In both competitions he survived two qualifying rounds and won against David Gray and Robert Milkins , among others . But even though they were the two most important tournaments, he did only a little better than two years earlier and lost his professional status again. Again he took part in the PIOS tournaments and again he won once and reached the semi-finals once. Even if the other results weren't so good, it was enough for eighth qualification place and the third attempt on the professional tour.

Advance in the world rankings

He began the 2010/11 season with a round of 16 at the first tournament of the Players Tour Championship . In the fifth tournament he even made it to the final, where he was defeated by Ding Junhui . During the tournament he also scored his highest professional break to date with 143 points. At the sixth tournament and the Rhein-Main Masters , he reached the round of 16. He partially defeated players like Gerard Greene , Mark Allen , Ricky Walden and Martin Gould several times . After all 12 preliminary tournaments, he finished 21st in the prize money ranking and was thus able to qualify for the tour finals in Dublin , which took place in March 2011. In the first round there was a third clash with Gould, who this time got the upper hand. In the regular ranking tournaments, Jones was particularly successful at the Shanghai Masters and only missed the finals by one win. He survived two qualifying rounds at the World Open and the UK Championship . After only one year he moved up to 47th place in the world rankings and was sure to stay on the Main Tour.

The following season he began again with PTC successes and the quarterfinals at the first , third and seventh PTC tournaments. At the Paul Hunter Classic 2011 he reached the round of 16. He beat other top players such as Graeme Dott , Mark Davis and his compatriot Matthew Stevens . At the Grand Finals , he defeated John Higgins and reached the second round of a full ranking tournament for the first time. At the other big tournaments he could not improve until then and had not gotten past the last 48. He only reached the final tournament at the penultimate tournament, the China Open , but then lost in the wildcard round in Beijing . He celebrated his greatest success so far at the final World Cup . By winning over Andy Hicks and Ricky Walden , he survived the qualification for the finals and had his first appearance at the Crucible Theater . In his first match there he met the former world champion Shaun Murphy , whom he won 10: 8. Then he even defeated Andrew Higginson with 13:10 and only in the quarterfinals was against Allister Carter over . In the match he was able to shorten the score from 8:12 to 11:12 before losing at 11:13. This success made him jump again in the world rankings and he came in the top 32 in 29th place.

Up and down in the professional circuit

This remained his best result for the time being, because the 2012/13 season started with four opening defeats. Only at the Paul Hunter Classic he was able to repeat his round of 16 from the previous year and at the Shanghai Masters he reached the first final round. Otherwise there were only first or second round defeats and he fared little better at the PTC tournaments and the PTC final was out of reach. After the close first round of 9:10 against Liam Highfield at the World Cup , he lost 11 places in the rankings. The following year it started a little better, but the third round of 16 in a row at the Paul Hunter Classic was again the first highlight of the season. At the Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup 2013 he reached a PTC semi-finals for the second time and the last sixteen at the Gdynia Open again, so that he reached the PTC final tournament for the third time . Mark Allen defeated him there in round 1. In most other tournaments he reached at least round 2 and at the World Cup he came under the last 48, but could not compensate for the points that fell away from his great success two years earlier and he slipped further down in the world rankings to 55th place.

The 2014/15 season started promisingly at the Wuxi Classic and at the second ranking tournament, the Australian Goldfields Open , he clearly won against Mark King and Stephen Maguire and reached the second round. He did this at the Lisbon Open , but it was his best PTC result and this time he missed the Grand Finals again. At the snooker shoot-out 2015 , a special format, he reached the semi-finals. At the big tournaments Jones usually reached round 2 or 3 and at the end of the season he made many points again with the round of 16 at the Indian and the China Open with wins over Liang Wenbo and Marco Fu . At the 2015 World Cup he reached the Crucible for the second time, but then had no chance against world number three Neil Robertson . In doing so, however, he reversed the negative trend and after a steady upward trend he returned to 38th place in the world rankings . The first highlight of the next season was again the Australian Goldfields Open . For the first time in his career he reached the semi-finals of a ranking tournament, after beating world number one Mark Selby 5-1 on the way there . He returned the favor at the UK Championship , where he beat the Welshman 6-5 in the round of 32. But he didn't surpass this result at any other tournament, not even at the PTC tournaments, which is why he fought for a place in the top 32 all season. The 5:10 first round defeat against the hitherto winless tour newcomer Hamza Akbar at the 2016 World Cup was a serious setback at the end of the season and so he remained outside the top 32.

After that, Jones made a solid start to the 2016/17 season and confirmed his points. At the Paul Hunter Classic , he achieved his best tournament result with the quarter-finals. And also at the UK Championship he came under the last 8 for the first time, after beating the world number five Ding Junhui 6-2. With more last 32 results, he secured his second participation in the World Grand Prix , in which the best 32 players on the one-year ranking are participating. In the further course of the season he managed to reach the last sixteen at the Gibraltar Open . At the World Cup he was defeated in the third qualifying round after 8: 7 lead with 8:10 against Graeme Dott . He only confirmed his placement over the season and missed further progress.

Jones could not record any major successes in the snooker season 2017/18 , so he slipped in the world rankings . Several wins, including a whitewash against Liang Wenbo , enabled Jones to qualify for the finals of the 2018 World Snooker Championship. There he surprisingly defeated Shaun Murphy 10: 9 in the first round . In the round of 16 he lost 5:13 against Kyren Wilson .

At the Paul Hunter Classic 2018 , he made an official maximum break for the first time in the game against Lee Walker .

Ban 2018/19

On October 11, 2018, the WPBSA published a report that there was an investigation against Jones in connection with betting manipulation. An immediate ban was issued against him. Following a hearing in January 2019, it was announced that the Welshman knew about manipulation by David John in a 2016 match and that he had violated the Code of Conduct for Professional Players for failing to make it known. Therefore, the blocking period was set for 12 months up to and including October 10, 2019. He was not accused of manipulating games himself.

As a result, he was unable to qualify for the 2019/20 professional season, but took part in the Q School in 2020 and secured the Main Tour return in the second tournament . He won the final playoff against Michael Georgiou 4-0.

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Profile of Jamie Jones on CueTracker (as of February 12, 2019)
  2. ↑ snookerinfo centuries , accessed on February 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ Jamie Jones, snooker player (interview), BBC, accessed February 19, 2017
  4. ↑ Welsh snooker star Jamie Jones win the Neath battle over Michael White , Gareth Griffiths, Wales Online, July 3, 2015
  5. ↑ It's a sport in which the Welsh are world beaters ... , BBC Wales, November 11, 2011 ( Memento of November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Snooker thread in the Haven blog, article from May 13, 2006
  7. ↑ WPBSA Statement: Jamie Jones. In: worldsnooker.com. WPBSA , October 11, 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Jamie Jones says suspension was 'horrendous' after being cleared of match-fixing. In: bbc.com. BBC Sport , January 13, 2019, accessed February 12, 2019 .
  9. ^ WPBSA Disciplinary Hearing Finding: David John and Jamie Jones. In: worldsnooker.com. WPBSA , February 6, 2019, accessed February 12, 2019 .

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SURNAME Jones, Jamie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION welsh snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Neath , Wales