Martin O'Donnell
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| birthday | 4th June 1986 (age 34) |
| nationality |
 England
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| Nickname (s) | The MOD |
| professional | 2012–2014, 2015– |
| Prize money | £ 282,839 (as of August 30, 2020) |
| Highest break | 140 ( UK PTC 2, 2012 ) |
| Century Breaks | 44 (as of August 30, 2020) |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | - |
| Ranking tournament victories | - |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
| World rankings | |
| Highest WRL place | 40 ( February 2019– ) |
| Current WRL location | 34 (as of August 17, 2020) |
Martin O'Donnell (born June 4, 1986 ) is an English snooker player from Harrow in London .
Career
In 2005, Martin O'Donnell took part for the first time in the pre-qualification for the snooker world championship, which was still open to amateurs , and won his first match. In order to make the leap to the pros on the Main Tour , he then took part in all five seasons of the Pontin's International Open Series between 2005 and 2010 . He achieved his best result in an individual tournament at the seventh tournament of the last PIOS season 2009/10. He failed only in the semifinals against Justin Astley . In the same season he also achieved his best result of the season with 25th place in the overall ranking.
In the 2010/11 season , the Q School replaced the PIOS series as a qualifying tournament series for amateurs: O'Donnell failed twice in the quarter-finals in 2011 against the later Q-School winner David Gilbert and once in the final against Kurt Maflin . In the tournaments of the Players Tour Championship seasons 2010/11 and 2011/12 O'Donnell tried to compete with the professional players of the Main Tour. Although he could beat players like Shaun Murphy or Tom Ford , he never got past the last 64. By winning the Snookerbacker Classic in February 2012, he was sponsored the entry fee for the 2012 Q-School series. In the very first tournament he won his group and thus received a 2-year tour ticket for the 2012/13 and 2013/14 seasons .
The Englishman began his professional career with a win against David Grace in qualifying for the Wuxi Classic . He then defeated the same opponent at the Australian Open and reached Round 3. After that, however, there were numerous opening defeats before he had his greatest PTC success at the Scottish Open with reaching the quarter-finals. There were also some opening wins at larger tournaments such as the International Championship and the World Open and after a year he was 86th in the world snooker rankings . In the following season he reached the round of 16 and the third round in Fürth and Gdynia at the Rotterdam Open 2013 . Outside of the Players Tour Championship, his greatest achievement was qualifying for the China Open . In Beijing he benefited from the cancellation of Stuart Bingham and without a fight he moved into the round of 32 for the first time in a full world ranking tournament. He also reached the third qualifying round of the Shanghai Masters after defeating Nigel Bond . At the World Cup he won his first match against an amateur with 10: 1. Despite the success, he did not get past 92nd place in the world rankings and he lost his professional status again. The attempt at direct re-qualification through the Q School also failed.
In the following season he participated regularly in the Players Tour Championship. He qualified three times for the respective main tournament and at the Riga Open 2014 he also managed a victory against the professional Alfie Burden . Due to the results he was then eligible to start at the EBSA Amateur Play Offs and with victories over Paul Davison and Jamie Rhys Clarke he earned another two-year start authorization for the Main Tour.
He started the 2015/16 season with individual opening successes in five world ranking tournaments. He reached round 3 four times at PTC tournaments. His greatest success up to then, however, was at the China Open , where he got through qualification and wildcard round and then reached the round of 16 with wins over Joe Swail and Matthew Selt . By the end of the season, he rose to number 77 in the world rankings. With round 3 at the Riga Masters , he then successfully started the next season. Apart from two victories in qualifying for the Shanghai Masters , the tournaments were rather disappointing and mostly ended in first-round defeats. It wasn't until the China Open that he reached the last 32 for the second time after beating Jimmy Robertson 5-0. At the final World Cup , he struggled to defeat young amateur Jackson Page 10: 9 before losing to Hammad Miah . He missed using his good starting position to jump into the top 64, after having already reached 66th place. This was the second time that he dropped out of the Main Tour.
Again O'Donnell had to go to the Q School and at the first tournament he came back to the final of his group. There he was defeated by Lukas Kleckers 1: 4. In the second tournament he failed in round 3 to Ashley Carty , but it was just enough to get his professional status back for two more years as the fourth player in the Order of Merit.
Web links
- Martin O'Donnell at World Snooker (English)
- Maximumbreak by Martin O'Donnell (Basel, March 2012)
- Tournament statistics at snooker.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wuxi Classic Qualifiers Day One (snookerbacker.com, June 4, 2012)
- ↑ Profile of Martin O'Donnell on CueTracker (as of October 11, 2018)
- ↑ 2012 PTC - Event 2 - Tournament Ranking . CueTracker - Snooker Database. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ Martin O'Donnell, Year 2005 . CueTracker - Snooker Database. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
- ↑ PIOS ranking list 2009/10 ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (global-snooker.com)
- ↑ Report on winning the Snookerbacker Classic 2012 (snookerbacker.com)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | O'Donnell, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English snooker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th June 1986 |