Lee Spick

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Lee Spick
birthday April 25, 1980
place of birth Mansfield
date of death 26th January 2015 (age 34)
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 2000/01, 2002/03, 2005-2010, 2013-2015
Prize money £ 66,680
Highest break 144
Century Breaks 49
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 65 (2007/08)

Lee Spick (born April 25, 1980 in Mansfield , † January 26, 2015 ) was an English snooker player . Between 2000 and 2015 he played as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour for almost 9 years .

Career

Lee Spick's father owned a snooker club in Mansfield and as a teenager he came into contact with professionals like Jason Ferguson and Gary Wilkinson , with whom he later became friends. He was successful at a young age, he won the English U-15 championship in 1994 and played in the English youth team. When he was 17, he first took part in an open professional tournament, the Benson & Hedges Championship . He won against Matthew Stevens , among others, and came under the last 64. At the 2000 World Cup he made it to the last 96 after winning over two top 100 players. Sporadically, he also played in qualifying tournaments on the UK Tour , in 2000 he was then a professional at the age of 20.

In the 2000/01 season , however, he achieved only a handful of victories. At the Benson & Hedges Championship he reached the quarterfinals with victories over Dean Reynolds and Brian Morgan , but the tournament did not bring any points for the world rankings . Therefore, he lost his professional status again and had to play Challenge Tour tournaments the following year . He won one of them, twice he reached the quarter-finals, thus reaching second place in the tour ranking and thus re-qualification for the main tour. But the 2002/03 season was no more successful than his debut year and he lost his professional status again.

The subsequent Challenge Tour was not that successful, he only reached a semi-final once and thus missed the top 8 in the overall ranking. In the 2004/05 season he was hardly more successful with two round of 16, but among all participants he reached second place in the tour ranking and so he returned to the professional tour. Before that, he surpassed his best result to date at the 2005 World Cup . With wins over Ding Junhui and Björn Haneveer , he finished in the last 64.

In his third professional season 2005/06 , the two tournaments in which he had been particularly successful up to then were again outstanding. At the Masters Qualifying Event, the former Benson & Hedges tournament, he reached the last sixteen. At the 2006 World Cup , he lost in the last 48 round with 9:10 and 46:56 in the deciding frame against John Parrott and just missed the main round at the Crucible Theater . The following season he also reached the last 48 at the China Open. At the end of the 2006/07 season , he advanced to 65th place in the world rankings.

He was able to repeat the round of the last 48 at the China Open the following year. A year later, the world championship was again his best tournament, again he just missed the Crucible and lost 8:10 to Steve Davis . Since he did not get beyond the last 64, he stagnated in the world rankings. In the 2009/10 season he reached the last 48 round of the Shanghai Masters , but otherwise he lost all opening matches. He fell to number 80 in the world rankings and lost his professional status for the third time after five years in a row on the Main Tour.

The following year he only played Players Tour Championship with little success. In 2011 and again in 2012 he tried to return to the Main Tour via the Q School , but failed in all tournaments at the latest in the group semi-finals. Then he said goodbye to professional snooker at the age of 32, also because of personal problems. Nevertheless, he allowed himself to be persuaded to take part in the Q School again in 2013. This time he reached his group final in the last tournament and defeated Duane Jones 4-2. He returned to the Main Tour for the 2013/14 season . Although he initially registered for a few tournaments, he only appeared twice. He was in financial difficulties and could no longer afford to participate in tournaments without the support of a sponsor. Despite being allowed to start until the end of the 2014/15 season, he did not attend any professional tournaments from the end of 2013.

In early 2015, it was revealed that he had been hospitalized and admitted to intensive care for problems with his liver. He died on January 26th at the age of 34.

Tournament results

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

Amateur tournaments:

  • Winner: English U-15 Championship (1994)

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  1. ↑ a b c d Profile of Lee Spick on CueTracker (as of June 4, 2020)
  2. ↑ Lee Spick. Eurosport , accessed January 2, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b Hector Nunns: Shaun Murphy Remembers Lee Spick. Inside Snooker, March 11, 2015, accessed January 2, 2018 .
  4. ^ Nigel Slater: Lee Spick announces retirement from snooker. The Old Green Baize, June 6, 2012, accessed January 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Jamie Shaw: Main tour professional Lee Spick dies aged 34. Live Snooker, January 26, 2015, accessed January 2, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Spick, Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Mansfield
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2015