Lou Condo

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Lou Condo
birthday 1948
date of death 1st December 2014 (age 66)
nationality AustraliaAustralia Australia
professional (with interruptions from) 1974 - 1992
Prize money £ 2,794
Highest break 62 ( World Snooker Championship 1975 )
World rankings
Highest WRL place 125 ( 1987/88 )
Best results
Ranked tournaments 1 × round of the last 24 ( Snooker World Championship 1975 )
Other professional tournaments 1 × quarter-finals ( Australian Professional Championship 1986 )
Amateur tournaments 1 × Australian Champion (1974)

Lou Condo (* 1948 ; † December 1, 2014 ) was an Australian snooker and pool player who, on the one hand, after winning the Australian snooker championship in 1974 between this year and 1992, with interruptions, spent a total of twelve years as a professional snooker player and for others also appeared as pool players.

Career

First professional years

After Condo won the Australian Snooker Championship in 1974 before John Campbell and he had reached the quarter-finals of the amateur world championship , he became a professional player in the same year for the 1974/75 season. During that season he only took part in the World Snooker Championship held in Australia , where he lost to Ian Anderson in the round of 24 after defeating Maurice Parkin .

In the next four seasons 1975/76 , 1976/77 , 1977/78 and 1978/79 Condo took part in various tournaments and lost at the Australian Professional Championship in 1975 and 1978 and at the World Professional Matchplay Championship in 1976 its respective opening game. In contrast, he reached the second round at the World Snooker Championship in 1976 with a win over Marcus Owen and lost to Willie Thorne before reaching the fourth round at the 1977 Australian Professional Championship , where Warren Simpson had to admit defeat. During this time, Condo did not manage to place himself on the world rankings, so he was considered an unsettled player, while apart from that he did not play professional games in the next few years.

Professional appearances in the 1980s

After several years of abstinence from snooker, Condo took part in three tournaments again during the 1984/85 season , but did not play his opening game at the International Open or at the Grand Prix after his 2: 6 opening defeat to James Giannaros at the Australian Professional Championship . In the following two seasons 1985/86 and 1986/87 Condo only took part in the Australian Professional Championship and was eliminated in 1985 after defeating Edward Charlton in the second round against James Giannaros and in 1986 after victories over Charlton and Giannaros in the quarterfinals Warren King out.

In the following season , Condo was placed on the world rankings for the first time , with that same 125th place remaining Condo's best world ranking. Both during this season and in the 1988/89 season, however , he again took part only in the Australian Professional Championship, where he lost his opening game in 1987 and 1988 against Greg Jenkins and Sam Frangie . After he had lost his world rankings again in the meantime, Condo did not play a single professional game. After he was again listed in the world rankings in 1991/92 with rank 152, he ended his professional career by the end of this season at the latest.

Further life

Condo appeared several times in various pool tournaments in the following years . So he took part in the WPA 9-Ball World Championship in 2000 , but retired without a win in the group stage. A year later he took part again in the same tournament and this time finished penultimate in his group with a win from seven games. Together with his son, who was born in 1975 Louis Condo , which came also as a pool player in appearance, also partly in the same tournaments as his father, he ran in Melbourne a business for pool tables . Condo died in 2014 at the age of 66.

successes

output year competition Final opponent Result
Amateur tournaments
winner 1974 Australian Snooker Championship Group stage

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ron Florax: Career Total Statistics For Lou Condo - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ron Florax: Ranking History For Lou Condo. CueTracker.net, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Past Champions. Australian Billiards and Snooker Council , accessed January 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Ron Florax: Lou Condo - Season 1974-1975 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Ron Florax: Lou Condo - Season 1974–1975 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  6. ^ Ron Florax: Lou Condo - Season 1975-1976 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  7. ^ Ron Florax: Lou Condo - Season 1976-1977 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ron Florax: Lou Condo - Season 1977–1978 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Ron Florax: Lou Condo - Season 1978–1979 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Ron Florax: Lou Condo - Season 1984–1985 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Ron Florax: Lou Condo - Season 1985–1986 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Ron Florax: Lou Condo - Season 1986–1987 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Ron Florax: Lou Condo - Season 1987–1988 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Ron Florax: Lou Condo - Season 1988–1989 - Professional Results. CueTracker., Accessed January 5, 2020 .
  15. ↑ 2000 WPA World Pool Championship. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Cue Sports Nova Scotia, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on January 5, 2020 (English).
  16. ↑ 2001 WPA World Pool Championship. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Cue Sports Nova Scotia, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on January 5, 2020 (English).
  17. ↑ Louis Condo Jr. AZBilliards.com, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Professional Players. Melbourne Pool Tables Australia, 2010, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Lou Condo Passes away 1948-2014. World Cue Sports, 2014, accessed January 5, 2002 .
personal data
SURNAME Condo, Lou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian snooker and pool player
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 2014