Peter Lines

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Peter Lines
Peter Lines
birthday 11th December 1969 (age 50)
place of birth Leeds
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 1991–2004, 2006/07, 2008–2016, 2017–
Prize money £ 424,224 (as of August 30, 2020)
Highest break 145 ( PTC 10, 2011 )
Century Breaks 53 (as of August 30, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 42 ( 99/00 )
Current WRL location 117 (as of August 17, 2020)

Peter Lines (born December 11, 1969 in Leeds ) is an English professional snooker .

Career

The professional career of Peter Lines began in 1991 with the qualification for the Snooker Main Tour . Twice he was able to defend his position among the best snooker players, then he lost his professional status again. In the mid-1990s he played in the amateur tournaments and in 1996 reached the final of the English amateur championships .

Then he managed to return to the professional tour and this time he was able to assert himself better. In 1998 Lines managed to qualify for the main round of the World Snooker Championship and the following year he achieved his best placement in a Main Tour tournament with the quarter-finals of the China International . He even defeated the leader in the world rankings John Higgins in the first round . At the end of the season he had reached his highest position in the world rankings with 42nd place.

However, he was subsequently unable to confirm this performance. He was able to stay on the tour for the next five years, but then fell out of the circle of professionals for the second time.

Even though Lines was nearing 40, he was aiming for a return, working with well-known coach Steve Perst . In 2008 he returned to the tour and after a year he was able to qualify for the top 64 again. His rise continued the following year, when he qualified for the main round of the tour's second most important tournament, the UK Championship . There he managed to win in the first round against last year's finalist and number eight in the world rankings Marco Fu and then he was able to prevail against the ranked fifteenth Mark Williams , which means he made it into the quarterfinals of a ranking tournament for the second time in his career was.

In the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons , he only made it past the last 64 in the Players Tour Championship in world ranking tournaments . At the Ruhr Open 2014 , Gdynia Open 2015 , Riga Open 2015 and the Haining Open 2015 he reached the round of 32. By the end of the 2015/16 season he was 73rd in the world rankings . With that he lost his place on the Main Tour.

Lines tried to re-qualify directly through the Q School . In the second event he made it to the finals of his group, but lost there to John Astley . This makes him the fourth player not qualified for the Main Tour on the Q School Order of Merit ranking. Due to this placement, Lines had the right to vacant places in the qualification of the professional tournaments of the 2016/17 season . In the first four tournaments he lost his opening matches, but he reached the round of 32 at the Paul Hunter Classic 2016. After that, he qualified for the main draw three times in the professional tournaments, and in the UK Championship 2016 he beat the first round last year's defending champion Neil Robertson and reached the third round by defeating Chris Wakelin .

Lines won the World Seniors Championship in March 2017, not losing a single frame from the round of 16 to the finals. In the semifinals he defeated Stephen Hendry and in the finals John Parrott . The following month he competed in the EBSA Amateur Play Offs , for which he had qualified through his results at the Paul Hunter Classic 2016 and the Gibraltar Open 2017 . With two wins against Ben Jones and Zack Richardson, he secured two more years on the Main Tour from 2017.

In August 2018 Lines reached the semi-finals of a world ranking tournament for the first time in his career at the Paul Hunter Classic .

Private

Peter Lines is married and has two children. His son Oliver won the U14 snooker championships in England in 2009 and has been a professional himself since 2014.

swell

  1. ^ Career-total Statistics for Peter Lines. Professional. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed August 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Profile at Worldsnooker.com (English)
  3. ^ Profile at Global Snooker ( Memento from November 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Peter Lines - Season 2014–2015 - Professional Results. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  5. ^ Peter Lines - Season 2015–2016 - Professional Results. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  6. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 358 kB) After The 2016 Betfred World Championship. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , accessed June 5, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b Peter Lines - Season 2016–2017 - Professional Results. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Q School Order of Merit 2015/2016. In: snooker.org. Retrieved June 5, 2016 .
  9. ^ Lines and Greene Regain Tour Status , World Snooker, April 13, 2017

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SURNAME Lines, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds