Leo Fernandez (snooker player)

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Leo Fernandez
birthday 5th July 1976 (age 44)
place of birth limerick
nationality IrelandIreland Ireland / EnglandEnglandEngland 
Nickname (s) fandango
professional 1995–1997, 1998–2001, 2002–2006, 2007/08, 2016–2018
Prize money £ 131,250
Highest break 140 ( Q School 2015/2 )
Century Breaks 34
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 67 ( 2004/05 )

Leo Fernandez (born July 5, 1976 in Limerick ) is an Irish snooker player . Between 1995 and 2018 he played as a professional on the Main Tour for a total of 12 years .

Career

After he was eliminated at the English Amateur Championship 1995 in the semi-finals of the southern group against David Gray , the eventual winner of the tournament, Leo Fernandez first took part in the Snooker Main Tour in the 1995/96 season . At the Thailand Masters , the first world ranking tournament of the season, he reached the fifth qualifying round. In October 1995 he achieved his best result in an invitation tournament that season by reaching the round of 64 at the Benson & Hedges Championship . At the UK Championship in 1995 he reached the round of 128. In January 1996 Fernandez qualified by a 5-0 win in the round of 48 against Martin Clark for the first time for the final round of a world ranking tournament. In the first main round of the European Open , however, he was eliminated 1: 5 against Peter Ebdon . At the 1996 World Cup , he reached the fifth qualifying round, ending his first professional season in 214th place in the world rankings .

His best results in the 1996/97 season were reaching the round of 128 at the German Open 1996 and the round of 96 at the Welsh Open 1997 . In qualifying for the 1997 World Cup , he made it back to the fifth round. In the world rankings, he finished 163rd at the end of the season and thus fell from the Main Tour. In the following season he took part in several tournaments of the WPBSA Qualifying School and the UK Tour , but never got past the semi-finals. At the 1998 World Cup he reached the sixth qualifying round. For the 1998/99 season Leo Fernandez managed to return to the Main Tour. There he reached the round of the last 48 at the Irish Open in 1998 and the round of the last 32 at the Scottish Open in 1999. In April 1999 Fernandez reached after he had defeated, among others, Neil Robertson and Paul Davies , by a 10: 5 victory against Brian Morgan for the first time the main round of the World Cup . In the first round, however, he lost 3:10 against the Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan .

In the 1999/2000 season Fernandez made it into the main round only at one world ranking tournament; at the British Open 1999 he reached the round of 32, in which he was defeated by the Englishman Mark Davis , after a 3-0 lead in the meantime, just 4: 5. In qualifying for the 2000 World Cup , he was eliminated in the last 128. At the end of the season he reached 71st place, his best place in the world rankings to date. In the 2000/01 season he did not reach the main round at any world ranking tournament. His best result was the round of 64 at the Grand Prix . At the 2001 World Cup , he was eliminated again in the round of 128. With the 99th place in the world rankings at the end of the season, Fernandez again lost his Main Tour place.

After he had won a tournament on the Challenge Tour and reached the third qualifying round of the World Cup , he returned to the Main Tour for the 2002/03 season . In this season he reached the finals in only one world ranking tournament; At the Welsh Open 2003 he reached the round of 16 of a ranking tournament for the first time with a 5-2 win against Mark King and was defeated there by the defending champion Paul Hunter with 1: 5. In qualifying for the 2003 World Cup , he reached the round of the last 96. In the 2003/04 season , Fernandez did not make it into the main round at any world ranking tournament. However, since he reached the round of the last 96 three times as well as the round of the last 80 and at the 2004 World Cup the round of the last 48, at the end of the season he achieved his best world ranking so far with 67th place.

In October 2004 Fernandez reached the Grand Prix, the first tournament of the 2004/05 season , the round of 32, in which he lost 5-2 to Mark Selby . In the seven following ranking tournaments he did not get past the round of the last 80. In October 2005 he reached the quarterfinals of the Irish Professional Championship . In addition, he reached the round of 64 at the Malta Cup and the China Open in the 2005/06 season . After the 2006 World Cup , where he was eliminated in the round of 96, he came to 72nd place in the world rankings and fell so again from the main tour.

In the 2006/07 season Fernandez qualified over the Pontin's International Open Series (PIOS), in which he won a tournament and twice reached the semi-finals, for the 2007/08 Main Tour . He reached the round of 64 at the 2008 China Open and the 2008 World Cup . At the end of the season, he finished 78th in the world rankings and thus lost his professional position. In the following two seasons he tried again, but now unsuccessfully, to qualify for the main tour via the PIOS. In 2010 he made it to the final of the English Amateur Championship for the first time , in which, however, he lost 9-2 to Jack Lisowski . In December 2010, after victories against Ahmed Saif and Hossein Vafaei, he reached the quarterfinals of the amateur world championship , in which he was only slightly defeated by his compatriot Rodney Goggins 5-6 . In 2011 he won the English Amateur Championship by beating John Whitty 10-6 in the final .

In May 2014 he tried to qualify for the Main Tour via the Q School , but did not get past the second round of his group. A year later he reached the final of his group in the first tournament and lost there against the Scot Rhys Clark . In the second tournament he made it to the round of 16. With the Q-School-Order-of-Merit he was able to take part in several world rankings as an amateur in the 2015/16 season . Among other things, he reached the third qualifying round at the Shanghai Masters 2015 and the round of 64 at the Welsh Open 2016 . At the Haining Open 2015 , the only tournament in the Asian partial series of the 2015/16 Players Tour Championship , he made it to the quarter-finals after victories against Matthew Selt , Li Hang and Tian Pengfei , in which he beat the eventual finalist Ricky Walden with 1: 4 was subject. As fifth placed in the Asian Tour Order of Merit , he qualified for the Main Tour seasons 2016/17 and 2017/18 .

At the 2016 World Cup , he was eliminated in the first qualifying round with 4:10 against Gary Wilson . He played the first foul of the tournament. Because of suspicious bets on it, the world association WPBSA initiated investigations against Fernandez. Until the end of this he was temporarily banned, which he could not participate in the first three tournaments of his eleventh professional season. On July 5, 2016, his 40th birthday, he was banned from the world association for 15 months. The suspension will apply retrospectively from May 27, 2016, the start of his provisional suspension and thus until August 27, 2017. Fernandez was also fined £ 2,000 and obliged him to become involved in the WPBSA's anti-corruption work in the future. After his return he drew attention to himself again with a 6: 5 win over world number three Ding Junhui at the UK Championship , but otherwise he won no more victories. As number 126 in the rankings , he lost his professional status again and was then unable to regain it in the Q School.

successes

Final participation

output year competition Final opponent Result
Amateur tournaments (selection)
Second 2010 English Amateur Championship EnglandEngland Jack Lisowski 2: 9
winner 2011 English Amateur Championship EnglandEngland John Whitty 10: 6

Personal

Leo Fernandez, who developed testicular cancer in 2005 , currently lives in Bexhill-on-Sea in the south of England and is a trainer at the O'Sullivan Snooker & Pool Club .

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b c d Career-total Statistics for Leo Fernandez. Professional. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed June 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ 1995 English Amateur Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ 1995 Thailand Classic. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  4. ↑ 1995 Benson and Hedges Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  5. ↑ 1996 European Open. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  6. ↑ 1996 World Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  7. ↑ 1997 Welsh Open. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  8. ↑ 1997 World Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  9. ↑ 1998 World Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  10. ↑ 1998 Irish Open. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  11. ↑ 1999 Scottish Open. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  12. ↑ 1999 World Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  13. ↑ 1999 British Open. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  14. ↑ 2000 World Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  15. ↑ 2000 Grand Prix. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  16. ↑ 2001 World Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  17. ↑ 2001 Challenge Tour - Event 2. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  18. ↑ 2002 World Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  19. ↑ 2003 Welsh Open. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  20. ↑ 2003 World Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  21. ↑ 2004 World Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  22. ↑ 2004 Grand Prix. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  23. ↑ 2005 Irish Professional Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  24. ↑ 2006 Malta Cup. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  25. ↑ 2006 China Open. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  26. ↑ 2006 World Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  27. ↑ 2010 English Amateur Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  28. ↑ 2011 English Amateur Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  29. ^ WPBSA Statement - Leo Fernandez. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 27, 2016, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  30. ^ Leo Fernandez handed 15-month ban after admitting corruption charge. In: bbc.com. BBC , July 6, 2016, accessed July 10, 2016 .
  31. ↑ Leo Fernandez is suspended from snooker for 15 months. In: skysports.com. Sky Sports , July 6, 2016, accessed July 10, 2016 .
  32. ↑ Leo Fernandez. In: osullivanssnookerclub.com. O'Sullivan Snooker & Pool Club, accessed June 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Fernandez, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH limerick