Nick Dyson

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Nick Dyson
birthday 19th December 1969 (age 50)
place of birth Hessle , Hull
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 1989-1997, 1999-2006
Prize money £ 214,138
Highest break 147 (2 ×)
Century Breaks 46
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 44 ( 2004/05 )

Nick Dyson (born December 19, 1969 in Hessle , Hull ) is an English snooker player . In the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s, he was a professional player on the Main Tour for a total of 15 years .

Career

The beginnings and the 1990s

Nick Dyson grew up in Macclesfield, south of Manchester . His father owned a billiards club in the city center in the 1980s. Originally he also played soccer in the Manchester City youth team , but gave up after a knee injury and turned to snooker. At the age of 16 he took part in a WPBSA qualification tournament for the professional tour. At the first U21 World Cup he reached the round of 16 in 1987. In 1988 he qualified for the professional play-offs and among other things with a victory over Dave Harold he secured the professional status from 1989.

He won his first professional match in the 1989/90 season at the Hong Kong Open against 75-year-old former world champion Fred Davis 5-1. At the International Open he reached the main tournament of the last 64 for the first time and at the European Open he defeated, among others, world number eight Dennis Taylor as well as Steve Longworth and Martin Clark and made it to the round of 16. At the world championship he reached round 3. He established himself in the top 64 in the first year. His second year began with the round of 16 at the International One Frame Shoot-out , a special format about a win frame . At the 1990 Grand Prix , he reached the last 32 after beating another top 16 player in Tony Meo . At the UK Championship he narrowly failed in round 3 with the last ball in the decisive frame against Willie Thorne . At the World Cup , he met Cliff Thorburn in the final qualifying round . He prevailed with 10: 5 and was the first time in the main round at the Crucible Theater . Against the later finalist Jimmy White he clearly lost 3:10. On the other hand, since he was almost always eliminated in round 1 or 2 of other tournaments, he improved only slightly to 60th place in the ranking.

In the years to come, the negative trend tended to prevail. In the 1991/92 season he was only among the last 32 at the Welsh Open . The following year he managed to do that at the Dubai Classic and the Asian Open . At the Strachan Challenge he made it to the round of 16, but the tournament brought far fewer ranking points than other tournaments. Although he dropped out of the top 64, he was able to continue playing professional tournaments. The tour was opened to all players in the early 1990s, he just had to play more qualifying rounds. After almost always ending in the last 64 at the latest in the following two years, Dyson finally dropped out of the top 100 in 1995. In 1996 and 1997 he reached the round of the last 64 at the World Cup and won against top 64 players so that he could maintain his position. At the end of the 1996/97 season the field of players was divided into the first-class Main Tour and the second-class UK Tour and since he was neither among the top 64 nor could qualify through the Qualifying School, he then had to go to the UK Tour. He only appeared twice and lost both games. In the following year he won a few matches. In the 4: 3 win over Adrian Gunnell in the fourth UK Tour tournament, he managed a maximum break , the 28th official break of 147 points in the history of professional snooker. In the world rankings, however, it fell back to 196.

New start in the 2000s

In the 1999/2000 season , thanks to changed rules, he got the opportunity to compete in the big tournaments again, and he began to improve again. At the Malta Grand Prix he survived the qualification and narrowly missed the place in the bottom 32 in the wildcard round against the Maltese Joe Grech, at the Scottish Open he succeeded thanks to the failure of his opponent Stephen Lee . In the following year he defeated Jimmy White, then number 18 in the world, at the UK Championship and came in this tournament for the first time in the bottom 32. In the opening round he had scored the second maximum break of his career against Robert Milkins . He was the seventh player in history to score more than a 147 break in competition. He also got a 144 and a 143 break in the same tournament. At the World Cup , he fought his way to the final qualifying round with tight results, where he defeated Brian Morgan 10: 9. Ten years after his first appearance at the Crucible, he lost to Ken Doherty with 7:10. He also reached the round of the last 48 twice in the season, making him jump to 51st in the world rankings. The following two years brought more top 32 results, for example at the UK Championship 2001 and the Irish Masters 2003 , and he also won against several top 32 players, but that was only enough to get his place in the top 64 secure. In the 2003/04 season he was in the last 32 at the British Open and in the last 48 at the Welsh Open and the World Championships , and at the age of 35 he reached 44th place, his best world ranking position.

While Dyson continued to participate in the Main Tour, he was already setting the course for the time after the professional snooker. In his hometown of Macclesfield, he took over the billiards club that had previously belonged to his father. As a player, he did not win a single match in 2004/05 and it was only thanks to his good starting position that he retained his professional status. But when he only won two games in the 2005/06 season , he fell back to 87th place and thus out of the Main Tour. In 2012, at the age of 42, he took part in the Q School again and also won a few matches, but after that he finally ended his snooker career.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

  • Professional Tour Qualification: Professional Play-offs (1989)

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Nick Dyson on CueTracker (as of May 24, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b It’s pot luck as snooker center gets set to re-open , Macclesfield Express, February 1, 2006.
  3. ^ Snooker - Doherty struggles to dismiss Dyson threat , Phil Yates, The Irish Independent, April 24, 2001.
  4. ↑ When 147s become old hat , BBC, November 19, 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Dyson, Nick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th December 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hessle , England