Luca Brecel

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Luca Brecel
Luca Brecel
birthday 8th March 1995 (age 25)
place of birth Dilsen-Stokkem
nationality BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Nickname (s) The Kid,
The Belgian Bullet
professional since 2011
Prize money £ 882,541 (as of August 30, 2020)
Highest break 147 ( Championship League 2018 )
Century Breaks 138 (as of August 30, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories 1
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 11 ( Oct., Dec. 2017 – Feb., Mar. – Apr. 2018 )
Current WRL location 38 (as of August 17, 2020)

Luca Brecel (born March 8, 1995 in Dilsen-Stokkem ) is a Belgian snooker player .

Career

Youth and first professional years

Brecel became the youngest ever U-19 European snooker champion in 2009 at the age of 14 . He received an invitation to the final tournament of the World Series 2008/09 and surprisingly defeated multiple vice world champion Jimmy White 4: 3 in the preliminary round . In the round of 16 he defeated Ken Doherty , the 1997 world champion, 5: 3, in the next round he was eliminated 4: 5 against the 2006 world champion, Graeme Dott . Since then, Luca Brecel has been considered one of the most promising young players in the world.

In May 2010 he became Belgian master of the men's class with a 7: 4 final win over professional player Björn Haneveer . He also won the EBSA European Snooker Championship in the same year .

Brecel was also invited to the Power Snooker Event 2010 (first major event of this type of snooker). He lost to eventual winner Ronnie O'Sullivan in his opening match .

In the 2010/11 season , Brecel was too young to play on the Main Tour . He received a wildcard for the German Masters 2011 , but lost to Jack Lisowski 2: 5 in the first game . For the 2011/12 season he then received a wildcard for the professional tour. In the first two tournaments of the Players Tour Championship 2011/12 he won against the top 32 players Jamie Cope and Anthony Hamilton .

At the end of the season he was the first Belgian to qualify for the World Snooker Championship by defeating Ian McCulloch , Barry Pinches , Michael Holt and Mark King . He broke the record held by Stephen Hendry since 1986 as the youngest participant in a finals of the World Cup. In his opening match he was defeated by Stephen Maguire 5:10. It was then announced that Brecel would also be given a wildcard for next year.

At the UK Championship 2012 he qualified with four wins - including a 6: 1 over former world champion Peter Ebdon - for his second full world rankings tournament. With a 6: 5 opening win over Ricky Walden, he made it to the round of 16, in which he also defeated Mark King and made it to the quarter-finals of a Main Tour tournament for the first time. There he was defeated by Shaun Murphy 5-6 .

2014/15 season and 2015/16 season

In the 2014/2015 season, Brecel was in the semifinals of a world ranking tournament for the first time at the Welsh Open . In the second round he defeated world number one and reigning world champion Mark Selby 4: 3, in the quarter-finals Ricky Walden 5: 3. In the semifinals he was defeated by the eventual winner John Higgins 4-6.

In the 2015/16 season, Brecel reached the final of a world ranking tournament for the first time. At the German Masters 2016 he was defeated by Martin Gould 5: 9 in the final. Exactly one week later he was in the final of the snooker shoot-out , an invitation tournament based on special rules, and lost there in a one-frame match with 36:50 points against the Finn Robin Hull .

Season 2017/18

The 2017/18 season started well for him. Brecel reached the final of the China Championship , which he won against Shaun Murphy 10-5 . On the way to the final he defeated Marco Fu and Ronnie O'Sullivan, among others . Brecel is the first Belgian, even the first continental European, to win a ranking tournament in professional snooker. At the World Open 2017 he reached the semi-finals and played against Ding Junhui , against whom he lost 4-6.

At the Shanghai Masters 2017 , Brecel qualified for the main round with a 5-0 win over Jak Jones from Welsh . There he lost after 5-0 victories over Matthew Stevens and Jamie Jones and a 5-4 win over Graeme Dott in the quarter-finals to the eventual finalist Judd Trump 5-0.

That year he was also invited to the Championship League . In Group 7, he met John Higgins on March 26th and ended the game with a maximum break for a 3-0 win. It was his first official 147-point break.

successes

Ranking tournament victories

Invitation tournament

Amateur tournaments

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luca Brecel. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , January 11, 2015, accessed July 19, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Profile of Luca Brecel on CueTracker (as of August 24, 2018)
  3. ↑ Eurosport article about upcoming stars in various sports ( Memento from January 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Brecel, Luca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Dilsen-Stokkem