Jimmy Robertson

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Jimmy Robertson
Jimmy Robertson
birthday 3rd May 1986 (age 34)
place of birth Bexhill-on-Sea
nationality EnglandEngland England
Nickname (s) Robbo
professional 2002/03, 2007/08, since 2009
Prize money £ 583,752 (as of August 30, 2020)
Highest break 142 ( China Open 2013 ; World Open 2017 , Q)
Century Breaks 144 (as of August 30, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories 1
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 23 ( December 2018 - February 2019 )
Current WRL location 28 (as of August 17, 2020)

Jimmy Robertson (born May 3, 1986 ) is an English snooker player .

Career

The beginnings

Jimmy Robertson began playing snooker when he was eight, but was also a skilled soccer player in his youth. Until the age of 14 or 15 he was with the London professional club Crystal Palace , but then the decision was made in favor of a career in snooker. At the age of 14 he played in the English amateur championship and in the Junior Play-Offs, a British qualifying tournament for young people, he won a place on the Snooker Main Tour in 2002 at the age of 16 . In his first year of apprenticeship, however, he managed only one win at the LG Cup and immediately dropped out of the professional tour.

He tried unsuccessfully to qualify again via the Challenge Tour and the PIOS series. In the meantime, however, he also struggled with health problems that made training and the game difficult for him. But he also took part in tournaments such as the Junior European Championship and the Pontins Pro-Am Tour in Wales and had notable successes such as victories over Michael Wild and Judd Trump . For his achievements in the amateur field, he got another chance on the Main Tour in 2007 thanks to a nomination by the English association EASB. Although this time he was able to win his opening game several times at the tournaments and in the qualifying group for the 2007 Grand Prix he defeated players like Jimmy White and Robert Milkins , but this was not enough to stay on the tour.

In 2009 he finally made it to the final of the national amateur championship. He won the title with a 9: 8 win over David Craggs and qualified as the best English amateur again for the Main Tour. At the first world ranking tournament of the 2009/10 season in Shanghai , he advanced to the final qualifying round and only just missed his first participation in the final against Graeme Dott . He also survived two qualifying rounds at the UK Championship and the China Open , and so he finished the season 63rd in the world rankings , which was just enough to stay on the tour.

Constant years in the top 64

In the 2010/11 season Robertson played quite successfully in the newly introduced Players Tour Championship . At the second event of the minor ranking series he reached the quarterfinals and three more times he was in the second round. At the German Masters 2011 he again narrowly missed the final round qualification. At the most important tournament of the season, the snooker world championship , of all places , he finally made his first participation in a final round of a full-fledged world ranking tournament. In the qualification he defeated Tony Drago and Ken Doherty, among others .

In his first match at the Crucible Theater he was clearly defeated by Mark Selby by 1:10. The following year did not start so successfully. Only at the Paul Hunter Classic did he reach a round of 16 again. At the Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy , he achieved a new personal best when he made it to the semi-finals. The small PTC tournaments did not bring him many points for the ranking list and in the big tournaments he did not get past the second round. The only exception was the World Open , where he qualified for a main tournament for the second time and was only eliminated in the round of 32. Although he had shown that he could beat top 32 players like Barry Hawkins and Ken Doherty, he stagnated in the rankings between 50 and 60.

This continued in the following two years. In 2012/13 he survived qualification at the Shanghai Masters and the China Open , but he only reached one of the PTC round of 16 and was often eliminated early in the other tournaments. In the snooker shoot-out , a special format over a frame with a time limit, he reached the second round. In his match against Tian Pengfei , he made 57 points within 131 seconds and won 65:61. For clearance he was awarded the "Magic Moment Award" at the annual World Snooker Awards. He began the 2013/14 season with a PTC quarter-finals at the Bulgarian Open and another main round in China at the Wuxi Classic , where he lost 4-5 to Scott Donaldson . At the Rotterdam Open he defeated Judd Trump, now number 3 in the world, 4: 3. At the Bluebell Wood Open he defeated another top 8 player with Stuart Bingham and reached the quarter-finals. After that, however, there was a phase in which he lost almost exclusively in the first or second round, and he ruined his progress again. Only at the end of the season did he come close to the Crucible except for one lap at the World Cup .

In 2014/15 , the round of 32 at the Shanghai Masters was a first success. At the Haining Open he reached a PTC semi-finals for the second time and narrowly missed the final with 3: 4 against Oliver Lines . He repeated the result at the Gdynia Open , even if the semi-finals were clearly lost this time. In the major ranking tournaments he almost always reached round 2. He made a leap forward when he reached the finals for the second time at the World Cup after a hard-fought 10: 9 against Xiao Guodong . Although there was no getting past Marco Fu , he rose to number 41 in the world rankings. The following year it took him until the Haining Open , where he repeated his semi-finals from the previous year, until he got back into shape. He then defeated the 8th in the world rankings Barry Hawkins at the International Championship and made it to the round of 16 of a full ranking tournament for the first time. At the Welsh Open , the China Open and the World Championships , he made it into round 3 and thus reached a preliminary career highlight with 34th place.

Advance into the top 32

Jimmy Robertson at the Paul Hunter Classic 2018

In the 2016/17 season , the PTC tournaments where he had regularly scored were dropped. The Riga Masters kept the format and he made it to the round of 16, but it didn't count for much in the ranking. It was the only time he got this far. He made it to the last 32 five times, for the first time at the UK Championship and for the third time at the World Championship , where he came very close to the round of 16 in the 8-10 defeat by Mark Allen . But since he did not get any further, he also missed the advance into the top 32 in the world. The following season started cautiously, only at the World Open he had another major success by reaching the last sixteen, which he lost to Mark Williams . This was followed by a series of five tournaments in which he reached the last 32, but then eliminated each time. Finally, he set a new career high at the German Masters when he first reached a quarter-finals of a ranking tournament and then knocked out again against Williams. This brought him to 32nd place in the world rankings for the first time. Another World Cup final at the end of the season followed three weaker results . For the third time in the season, Mark Williams, who then became world champion, was his final destination and thus the top 32 out of reach.

The 2018/19 season brought four opening defeats in the first phase, only in the Paul Hunter Classic did Robertson make it to the round of 16. At the European Masters he came through a 4: 3 and 68:66 in the decision frame against Anthony McGill for the second time in a ranking quarter-finals . Eer defeated Mark Allen 4-2 and Mark King 6-4 and played against Joe Perry for the tournament victory. In his first Main Tour final, he benefited from a quick 5-0 lead, from which he drank until the end and finally won his first professional title with 9: 6. He then made a jump to 25th place in the world rankings.

Jimmy Robertson owns a snooker club in Bexhill-on-Sea, where he was born and lived on the south coast of England.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Minor Ranking Tournaments ( PTC ):

Amateur tournaments:

  • UK Under-19 Snooker Star of the Future Tournament - 2002
  • English champion (2009)

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  1. ↑ a b Profile of Jimmy Robertson on CueTracker (as of November 5, 2018)
  2. ↑ The Big Interview: Jimmy Robertson , Snooker Scene Blog, March 23, 2011
  3. ↑ Jimmy Robertson Wins European Masters , David Caulfield, SnookerHQ, October 7, 2018
  4. ^ Jimmy Hits the Jackpot , Bexhill-on-Sea Observer, April 12, 2002

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personal data
SURNAME Robertson, Jimmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Bexhill-on-Sea , England