Jason Weston
| Jason Weston | |
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| birthday | 12th January 1971 (age 49) |
| nationality |
 England
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| professional | 1991–2003, 2015–2017 |
| Prize money | £ 60,920 |
| Highest break | 142 |
| Century Breaks | 16 |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | - |
| Ranking tournament victories | - |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
| World rankings | |
| Highest WRL place | 73 |
Jason Weston (born January 12, 1971 ) is an English snooker player .
Career
Jason Weston's long snooker career began as a 20-year-old with a successful start on the Snooker Main Tour . At the Benson & Hedges Satellite Championship in 1991 , he defeated the competitors in a row, partly clear, and was only stopped in the semifinals by Ken Doherty , who then won the tournament. At the British Open he reached the round of 32. In five other tournaments including the World Championship , he reached the fourth round. In the 1992/93 season he was similarly successful and came in the European Open under the last 32 and there defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan . Three other tournaments each ended a round earlier for him. He came up to number 73 in the snooker world rankings and was able to establish himself on the Main Tour for the time being.
At the 1994 World Cup , Weston was eliminated in the penultimate qualifying round before the main round of 32 against Brian Morgan , previously he had reached the round of 16 at the first tournament of the Strachan Challenge . A year later he reached the semifinals in the WPBSA Minor Tour in the first tournament. Since both tournaments were invitation tournaments and he otherwise couldn't get past the round of 64, he stayed in the world snooker rankings beyond 100th place. The 1995/96 season then meant a setback, when he was in every tournament at the latest in the round of 128 retired. In 1996/97 he was able to recover from it and reached higher laps again. He missed the round of 32 at the German Open by one and at the Snooker World Championship by two rounds and was eliminated in the first main round at the Welsh Open and the International Open .
Even so, he wasn't placed high enough in the two-year standings to stay on the Main Tour, so he played on the newly introduced UK Tour in 1997/98 . He then returned to the Main Tour for the 1998/99 season . This was followed by an up and down between the Main Tour and the UK Tour or their successor, the Challenge Tour. His best results during this period were the round of 48 at the Thailand Masters and the round of 80 at the 2002 World Snooker Championship .
Illness and late return
After that, Jason Weston fell ill with incurable chronic fatigue syndrome and deteriorated significantly in his performance. In 2003 he took part in the World Cup for the last time and in the 2003/04 season he was only able to compete in one tournament on the Challenge Tour and lost 4-0. Then he ended his professional career.
Over the years he got the disease under control and, encouraged by his family, found the fun of the game again. In 2014 he took part in the Q School for the first time, through which one could qualify for the Main Tour. But he did not succeed in more than one victory over a Portuguese amateur. In the following year, however, he managed to march through his group in the second Q-School tournament and the final win against Kuldesh Johal . With that he qualified again at the age of 44 for the next two seasons of the professional tour.
In his first comeback year he only reached the second round four times in the tournaments of the Players Tour Championship , in the regular Main Tour tournaments he lost his opening match. In the following season Weston only won one game in the snooker shoot-out and thus lost his place on the Main Tour as sixth from bottom of the world rankings. Shortly thereafter, he tried to qualify again via the Q School, but after an opening defeat in the first event , he was eliminated in the second event in the second round.
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- ↑ a b c Profile of Jason Weston on CueTracker (as of August 24, 2019)
- ↑ David Brawn: Portsmouth cueist Weston grabs golden ticket to return to World Snooker Tour. The News, May 29, 2015, accessed July 31, 2015 .
- ↑ Jason Weston. Pro Snooker Blog, accessed August 24, 2019 .
Web links
- Jason Weston in the Snooker Database (English)
- Jason Weston at World Snooker
- Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Weston, Jason |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English snooker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1971 |