Joe O'Connor
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| birthday | 8th November 1995 (age 24) |
| place of birth | Leicester |
| nationality |
 England
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| professional | since 2018 |
| Prize money | £ 96,000 as of August 31, 2020 |
| Highest break | 131 ( Welsh Open 2019 ) |
| Century Breaks | 16 (as of August 31, 2020) |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | - |
| Ranking tournament victories | - |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
| World rankings | |
| Highest WRL place | 80 ( February 2019– ) |
| Current WRL location | 62 (as of August 17, 2020) |
Joe O'Connor (born November 8, 1995 in Leicester ) is an English snooker player . In 2018 he became a professional on the Main Tour .
Career
Joe O'Connor is from Wigston near Leicester . He began his career in pool , where he won a large number of titles in the youth field. Among other things, he was U-18 world and European champion in the eight ball pool . Since he wanted to run billiards professionally, he decided to switch to snooker as a teenager . At 17 he first took part in the Players Tour Championship , a professional series open to amateurs. At the Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy 2012 he qualified for the main round with the professionals and was only just 3: 4 defeated by Ricky Walden . At the Bluebell Wood Open 2013 he reached the main round a second time after surviving four rounds in the amateur qualification.
To do this, he tried to qualify for the professional tour through the Q School . While he was still a long way off in 2013, he made it into the decider in the second tournament in 2014 . Although he lost 4-1 to Welsh Lee Walker , he took a top position in the Q-School overall standings and was therefore able to play as a successor in the qualification of the professional tournaments of the 2014/15 season and gain experience. O'Connor, who also trained with professional Tom Ford in Leicester , defeated Andrew Higginson 5-0 at the Wuxi Classic and played his first main round in a world ranking tournament in China. The China Open brought him a second trip to Asia after beating Ben Woollaston 5-2 in qualifying. In the main tournament he then clearly lost to Chris Wakelin and Michael Leslie . In the Q School 2015 he at least reached the group semi-finals and again a high place in the overall ranking. In the second year as a Main Tour supplementary player, he did not succeed in winning. In the Q School 2016 he failed twice with 3: 4 in the early rounds against the Scot Marc Davis.
He also played in the championships of amateur associations. In 2015 he took part in the Junior World Championship and reached the round of 16. At the U21 European Championship he reached the semi-finals and lost to eventual winner Josh Boileau 4: 5 in the deciding frame with the last black ball. In two other championships, however, the round of the last 32 was over. After the Q School 2017 was also disappointing, he only had the two Pro-Am tournaments on the Main Tour open to amateurs in the 2017/18 season. At both tournaments he reached the main round and at the Paul Hunter Classic he moved into round 3 with wins over Lukas Kleckers and Harvey Chandler . At the end of the season he was one of 8 players who had qualified for the EBSA Amateur Play Offs . This time he used the chance to win the group and thus got professional status and the right to start for the Main Tour seasons 2018/19 and 2019/20 . Even before the start of his first professional season, he became English amateur champion in June 2018 with a 10: 3 win over ex-professional Andrew Norman .
In the 2018/19 season he reached the semifinals of the Welsh Open . At the tournament he beat defending champions John Higgins , Ding Junhui and Kyren Wilson , among others . He lost the semi-final game against Stuart Bingham 2-6 .
successes
Qualifying tournaments
- EBSA Amateur Play Offs : Group winners 2018
Amateur tournaments
- English amateur champion (2018)
- U-18 world champion in the eight ball pool
- U-18 European champions in the eight ball pool
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- ↑ Profile of Joe O'Connor on CueTracker (as of September 19, 2018)
- ↑ UK Snooker: Joe O'Connor to man up for crack at champion Neil Robertson. The Press, November 21, 2014, accessed April 29, 2018 .
- ↑ World Snooker Tour: Embarking on the journey. WPBSA , July 11, 2018, accessed July 12, 2018 .
- ^ A b Owen Phillips: UK Championship 2014: Neil Robertson test excites O'Connor. BBC , November 26, 2014, accessed April 29, 2018 .
Web links
- Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)
- Joe O'Connor in the Snooker Database
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | O'Connor, Joe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English snooker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leicester , England |