Neal Foulds

Neal Foulds
birthday	13th July 1963 (age 57)
place of birth	Perivale , London
nationality	England
professional	1983-2004
Highest break	142
Century Breaks	88
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	1
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	3 ( 87/88 - 88/89 )

Neal Foulds (born July 13, 1963 in Perivale , London ) is a professional English snooker player .

Career

Neal Foulds is the son of former snooker professional and official Geoff Foulds . He started snooker at the age of eleven and went on to become an English U19 champion. At the age of 20 he became a professional and was able to qualify immediately for the World Cup tournament , where he reached the quarterfinals. After the first season he was among the top 32 of the snooker world rankings .

Over the next three years he worked his way up until he was the third best snooker player in the world after Steve Davis and Jimmy White . He reached the semi-finals twice at the Grand Prix ( 1984 and 1986 ) and once at the World Championship in 1987 , at the UK Championship and the British Open he reached the finals and at the BCE International he won the first title in a ranking tournament in 1986. It should be his only big tournament win.

In the following year the great successes failed to materialize, but he defended his third place in the ranking with a solid performance and the quarter-finals at the World Cup. He won the debut of the Dubai Masters , which as an invitation tournament did not bring any ranking points. He was also successful with Steve Davis and Jimmy White twice in a row for England in the Team World Cup .

The next two years proved to be a difficult time with several first round defeats that threw him out of the top 16; by 1992, however, he was able to improve again to position 5. In important tournaments he came under the last eight and in the Masters he reached the semifinals. In addition, he won the Pot Black Cup and the Scottish Masters as invitation tournaments in 1992 .

At the age of 30 he had passed the high point of his career. In 1994 he achieved a top result in a major tournament for the last time with the semifinals at the Masters, until 1997 he was still in the top 32. He then stayed professional for another seven years before failing to qualify in 2004 and ending his career.

After his active time, Foulds switched to the side of the reporter. He commented on top BBC tournaments such as the World Championship and the UK Championship. He also works as a snooker commentator for other broadcasters such as Sky Sports and Eurosport . Among other things, he was at the German Masters 2015 in Berlin, where he commented live with Jimmy White from the "small arena" of the Tempodrom for Eurosport-UK and conducted interviews.

swell

• Rankings and major results 1984-1997

Web links

• Biography at Pro Snooker Blog (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dour Foulds Vows To Continue