Karl Burrows

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Karl Burrows
birthday 17th December 1967
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 1991-2001
Prize money £ 64,985
Highest break 147
Century Breaks 11
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 69 (1998/99)

Karl Burrows (born December 17, 1967 ) is an English snooker player . From 1991 to 2001 he was a member of the professional tour for 10 years .

Career

Slow rise and career high point

When he was 20, Karl Burrows first tried to become a professional via the Pro Ticket Series . For two years, however, it failed quite clearly before the professional tour was opened to all players in 1991. In the first tournament of the 1991/92 season , the Dubai Classic , he made it to round 4. But then it took until the end of the season at the World Cup before he had another major success. He defeated, among others, Jason Weston and Bert Demarco and came under the last 128 of the tournament. That brought him at least a starting position from position 203 in the world rankings . In the following year he was already in the second tournament, the Grand Prix, among the bottom 128. And at the Benson & Hedges Championship and a little later at the second tournament of the Strachan Challenge , he made it to another round. Both were just tournaments with a lower ranking and without the top players. At the British Open he survived for the first time in a full ranking tournament the round of the bottom 128. In 1993/94 he came under the bottom 64 at the Welsh Open , but otherwise only reached the bottom 128 at the European Open. Nevertheless, he rose continuously the world rankings.

In 1995 it was the Thailand Open that stood out. For the second time in a ranking tournament he came in the bottom 64 and previously defeated Troy Shaw , Noppadon Noppachorn and Peter Francisco, among others . The South African was among the top 64 in the world and he beat him 5-0. Burrows made great strides in the 1995/96 season . In addition to a Top 64 result at the German Open with a 5-0 victory over the number 54 Mark Flowerdew , there were also two Top 96 results - one of them at the World Championship - and two more times he was among the bottom 128. He also fell below this mark in the world rankings. At the beginning of the 1996/97 season , the Englishman achieved his greatest career success. At the Asian Classic he succeeded with a 5-1 victory over the world number 28. Dave Finbow made it into the main round of a ranking tournament for the first time. In the round of the last 32 he defeated the number 2 in the world rankings John Higgins 5-0 and only in the second round was against Stefan Mazrocis over . At the second Thai tournament, the Thailand Open , he only missed the main tournament by one game. Except for two times, he always reached at least the round of the last 128. This made him jump to 78th place in the world rankings.

However, this was not enough for the automatic qualification for the 1997/98 professional season , which for the first time after six unrestricted years brought a limit to the number of professionals. He had to go to qualifying school, where he was unlucky in the first tournament, reached his group final, but then lost the decisive game against Jamie Woodman . In the second tournament he was defeated by Alan Burnett in the first game with 0: 5 and in the third tournament again reached the play-off and met again on Burnett. But this time he won 5-4 and remained a professional. During the season he reached the last 64 three times: at the UK Championship , the German Open and at the World Championship . At the British Open he achieved an even better result: In the main tournament with Alain Robidoux he defeated number 9 in the world rankings and with Joe Johnson another well-known player and for the second time he reached the round of 16 of a professional tournament. He reached 69th place at the end of the season.

Setbacks and end of career

In the 1998/99 season things went down for the first time. Although he finished in the bottom 32 for the first time at the Benson & Hedges Championship, the tournament did not count for the world rankings this time. In the ranking tournaments he only reached the second round twice. At a tournament on the UK Tour below, he made it to the second round. To compensate for missing points in the two-year ranking of the world rankings, he would have needed a good season in 1999/2000. He was able to record a particular success: Although he was eliminated in the first round of the Benson & Hedges Championship, he achieved a rare maximum break . It was the only official 147-point break of his career and the 33rd in the history of snooker. In the tournaments he was less successful. Although he was in the last 64 at the Grand Prix and at the Thailand Masters he missed the main tournament of the last 32 by just one win, but at the World Championship there was a 10:10 defeat against Colm Gilcreest in the first match and other good ones were missing Results. He fell back to 111th place in the ranking. The 2001/02 season was the other way around, most tournaments ended with defeats at the beginning, only at the World Cup he came for the second time in his career among the last 64, after he had defeated John Read , among others . But with that he lost further places in the world rankings and thus after 10 years also his professional status.

The following year he attempted to return to the Tour via the Challenge Tour with tolerable success . But there was nothing more like a round of 16 in the tournaments. In 2002/03 even less jumped out and after winning only two games in the four Challenge Tour tournaments in the third year, Karl Burrows finally gave up his professional ambitions in 2004 at the age of 37.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

  • Winner: WPBSA Qualifying School (1997 - Event 3, group win)

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Karl Burrows on CueTracker (as of March 2, 2018)

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personal data
SURNAME Burrows, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1967