Matthew Bolton

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Matthew Bolton
Matthew Bolton
birthday 7th July 1979 (age 41)
nationality AustraliaAustralia Australia
professional 2017/18
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 106 (June to August 2017)

Matthew Bolton (born July 7, 1979 ) is an Australian billiards player from Perth . He is one of the most successful English billiards players in his country and won the national championship 15 times by 2017. Internationally he is also successful in the snooker discipline , he was Oceania champion and played on the professional tour for a year .

Career

Matthew Bolton started playing pool when he was five or six years old. His father and grandfather had already been Western Australian champions. At the age of 13 he received a few months of lessons from the national billiards legend Bob Marshall, who was also from Perth . Bolton was one of the best players in his state from a young age. In 2000 he was in the final of the national championship in English Billiards for the first time and was the youngest player to win his first title at the age of 20, which he defended the following year. From 2004 he dominated the Australian championship unreservedly, he remained undefeated in the tournament for more than a decade and won all titles except 2012, where he could not compete due to injury. In 2019 he became champion for the 17th time, making him the second most successful player of all time behind Bob Marshall (21 titles). [obsolete] He was also the first player to beat its old national score record of 702 from 1953. At the 2014 championship he scored 736 points. In 2017, he increased his tournament record to 809 points; internationally, he had already set his personal best of 839 points at the 2011 World Cup.

Bolton was also successful in his sport beyond national borders, so he also dominated the Oceania Championships from 2012 to 2015. At the World Championships in 2011 and 2012 he reached the final, once in the points and once in the time evaluation. He won six world ranking tournaments and was number one in the world billiards ranking in 2012/13.

From a young age, Bolton also played snooker and in 1997 he was in the final of the Western Australian Championship, which was lost to Ben Judge , who was four years his junior . Most of the time, snooker ran alongside billiards. He intensified his efforts in the mid-2000s, winning two state titles and reaching the 2006 national championship final. But only in the 2010s, when snooker opened up more internationally and became more lucrative, did it rise to the national top in this discipline as well. In 2014 he became the fourth Australian to win the billiards and snooker titles in his country at the same time. He was also one of two wildcard players at the Australian Goldfields Open . He also entered the Oceania Championship, through which the winner could qualify for the professional snooker main tour . In 2013 and 2015 he reached the final there, which he lost both times to Vinnie Calabrese . In the third attempt, he finally managed to win the final over Ben Judge in 2017. At the age of 38, he was authorized to start the 2017/18 snooker season and the following season.

In his first tournament as a professional, the Paul Hunter Classic , he lost just 3: 4 to Barry Pinches . At the Indian Open it was clearly 0: 4 against Liam Highfield . A disappointing season followed in which he lost all matches, never winning more than 2 frames and losing 5 more times to zero. Even in the final World Cup , despite a 3-0 lead, there was a 4:10 defeat against Michael Georgiou . Thereupon, at the beginning of the second year, he announced the waiver of his main tour ticket.

successes

  • Australian National Billiards Championship: 2000–2001, 2004–2011, 2013–2019 (17 titles)
  • Australian National Snooker Championship : 2014 (1 title, finalist: 2006)
  • Oceania Billiards Championship: 2006, 2012–2015, 2017 (6 titles)
  • Oceania Snooker Championship : 2017 (1 title, finalist: 2013, 2015)
  • World Billiards Championship: Finalist 2011 (time format) and 2012 (points format)

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  1. ↑ Profile of Matthew Bolton on CueTracker (as of July 22, 2017)
  2. ↑ http://www.worldsnooker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/World-Rankings-after-Riga-Masters-2017-after-appeals-committee.pdf
  3. ↑ a b Bolton on cue to test the best , Liam Croy, The West Australian, August 29, 2014
  4. ↑ Top of the table: Matthew Bolton, 38, billiards and snooker player , Richard Cooke, The Saturday Paper, Edition No. 166 (July 22-28, 2017)
  5. ↑ Billiards champ shoots for world title , Liam Croy, The West Australian, June 25, 2014
  6. ↑ a b MD’s Blog - Yellow to black Q&A with ... Matthew Bolton , Michael Day, The Cue View, May 19, 2017
  7. ↑ a b c d Past Champions , Australian Billiards & Snooker Council national championship winner lists, accessed July 22, 2017
  8. ^ A b Bolton beats record break , Billiards & Snooker Association of Western Australia, June 14, 2014
  9. ↑ Snooker: New Aussie pro is a billiard record breaker , Chris Gaynor, Blasting News, June 21, 2017
  10. ↑ a b c Tournament Results , Oceania Billiards & Snooker Federation tournament database, accessed July 22, 2017
  11. ↑ a b Past Champions , lists of winners of the International Billiards & Snooker Federation, accessed on July 22, 2017
  12. ↑ Past Champions , Winner Lists of the Western Australian Championships of the Billiards & Snooker Association of WA, accessed July 22, 2017
  13. ↑ Brilliant Bolton is continental champ , Michael Day, The Cue View, March 18, 2017
  14. ↑ Bolton Resigns Tour Place , World Snooker, August 6, 2018
  15. ↑ The title holders of the Oceania Billiards Championship before 2006 and from 2009 are not listed in the Oceania Billiards & Snooker Federation

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SURNAME Bolton, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian billiard player
DATE OF BIRTH 7th July 1979