Jeff Cundy

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Jeff Cundy
Jeff Cundy
birthday 1st March 1969 (age 51)
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 1991–1997, 1998–2003, 2006/07
Prize money £ 62,938
Highest break 141
Century Breaks 23
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 92 (2007)

Jeff Cundy (born March 1, 1969 ) is an English snooker player from Scunthorpe . From 1991 to the mid-2000s he was a player on the professional tour for a total of 12 years .

Career

Beginnings and first professional years

At the age of 16, Jeff Cundy played for the English championship and entered the WPBSA Pro Ticket Series to qualify for the professional tour. In his first tournament he reached the last sixteen, but then remained unsuccessful in the following years. Only in 1989 did he get past the first round of a tournament and also reached the final. He won 5-3 against Jason Prince . In the play-offs he lost to Jason Ferguson and missed his chance to qualify. For the 1991/92 season the qualification was abolished and everyone could register for the tournaments. At the third tournament, the UK Championship , he survived all rounds of the amateur qualification. He defeated the two Canadian professionals Gary Natale and Jim Wych and was only eliminated in the round of 64. At the Welsh Open he again reached the bottom 128 and in 1992 he just missed this result by a 9-10 defeat against Malcolm Bradley . He started the second season in world number 148 and only had to enter the tournaments in the later qualifying rounds. He made it into the main qualification several times, but only at the British Open and a minor tournament of the Strachan Challenge did he get a round further. In 1993/94 he also made it twice, once at the World Cup .

It wasn't until the 1994/95 season that he took another step forward. At the Welsh Open he came with a victory over Nick Terry in the main tournament, where he defeated the number 21 in the world Tony Knowles 5-1 and came under the last 32. At the International Open he reached the main tournament again and five times the round of the last 128. At the end of the season he was among the top 128 in the world. Two more top 64 results and twice the round of 96 in the following year brought him to 103rd place in the world rankings. In the 1996/97 season he was unable to maintain the level and only made it to the third round at the Welsh Open . He lost many points in the two-year standings and when professional snooker was divided into the Main Tour and UK Tour in 1997 , he had to qualify. But in the 4 tournaments of the WPBSA Qualifying School he only won two games and fell from the Main Tour.

Second part of the professional career

After a year he returned to the main tour in 1998/99 . At the Benson & Hedges Championship he reached the round of 16 of a professional tournament for the first time. However, it was not a ranked tournament and the top 16 in the world did not participate. In the tournaments for ranking points he did not do very well and he fell back on the UK tour. The following year, the second Benson & Hedges round of 16 was the highlight, but at least he made it back to the Main Tour. This time he was also more successful again and reached the last 64 at the 2001 Welsh Open and the last 96 three times. The UK Championship saw the only narrow opening defeat. With this he had secured his place on the Main Tour with a top 128 placement. In the 2001/02 season he secured his position without great results and in 2002 he was in the top 100 for the first time in 97th place.

In 2002/03 , however, another major reform of the Main Tour was imminent and it would have had to improve considerably to stay on. Although he reached the round of 16 at the Benson & Hedges Championship for the third time, as in the previous year, he did not get past the round of the last 80 in the ranking tournaments. He even deteriorated slightly in the world rankings and lost his professional status for the second time. He tried to return via the new Challenge Tour , but once the round of 32 was his best result. In the following year he won only one match in four tournaments. In 2005/06 the Pontin's International Open Series (PIOS) was held for the first time with 8 instead of 4 tournaments, but here too it hardly did better. For this he first took part in the European amateur championship in 2006 . He defeated, among others, Stefan Mazrocis and Lasse Münstermann and although he was defeated in the final to the Maltese Alex Borg 5: 7, the final was enough for the qualification for the following Main Tour season. But even in 2006/07 he could not keep up in professional snooker. In the first half of the season he won two games: At the Grand Prix he won 1 of 7 games in the preliminary group. At the UK Championship he won against Mark Joyce and was eliminated in Round 2 with 8: 9 against Robin Hull . But after the turn of the year he lost all opening matches. Although 92nd place was his best ranking at the end of the season, there were only 96 professionals left and with that he lost his professional status for the third time at the age of 38.

Amateur years

Cundy remained active in amateur snooker and tried to return to the Main Tour. He had bad luck on the 2007/08 PIOS tour. Although he reached the quarter-finals three times and three more times the second round, he missed eighth and last qualifying place in the overall standings by one place. In a tournament series with professionals and amateurs in Prestatyn, Welsh, he also performed quite successfully and reached the second round twice. He qualified for the Grand Final, but then lost the first game. The PIOS tournaments in the next two years were no longer as successful. In no tournament did he get past the round of 32 and in the overall standings he ended up outside the top 50. 2010 replaced the Players Tour Championship (PTC), a series of professional tournaments open to amateurs, the qualifying tour and Cundy took part English tournaments. He was in the main tournament three times, but then lost each time to a professional player. He was also unsuccessful in the amateur qualification through the Q School , which did not change the following year. In 2012 he reached the quarterfinals in his group twice. He also took part in the PTC tournaments on the continent. Then he had bad luck at Q School 2013. Twice he reached the playoff for the Main Tour qualification, twice he lost, against Chris Wakelin and Paul Wykes . Because he had a high ranking in the Q-School rating, he was allowed to participate as a substitute player in professional tournaments if there were still places available. At the Indian Open 2013 he took his chance and reached the main tournament in New Delhi with a 4-0 win over Mark King . He also survived the wild card round against a local player and narrowly lost to Li Yan in the first main round . In 2013 he also played the international amateur championships and reached the quarter-finals of the world championships . It was his last major success. In the following years he continued to compete in the Q School and in individual Pro-Am tournaments on the Main Tour, at the age of 48 he took part again in the Paul Hunter Classic 2017 . He also took part in the Q School in 2018, but only reached the round of 32 . After all, his results from the three tournaments were enough to qualify for the Challenge Tour 2018/19 . His best result so far is reaching the round of 32 at the second event.

From 1995 to 2015 Jeff Cundy ran a snooker club named after him in his hometown of Scunthorpe . He was successful for many years, but then had to give up because of the waning interest in snooker in England.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

  • Winner: WPBSA Pro Ticket Series (1989 - Tournament 1)

Amateur tournaments:

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Jeff Cundy on CueTracker (as of January 30, 2018)
  2. ↑ Pontin's International Open Series 2007/2008 ( Memento from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Scunthorpe club with 300 members closes. Scunthorpe Telegraph, October 26, 2015, archived from the original January 31, 2018 ; accessed on January 30, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cundy, Jeff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1969