Ross Muir

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Ross Muir
Ross Muir
birthday 6th October 1995 (age 24)
place of birth Edinburgh
nationality ScotlandScotland Scotland
Nickname (s) The Glove from Above
professional 2013-2019
Prize money £ 96,335
Highest break 147 ( German Masters 2017 , Q)
Century Breaks 20th
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 67 (May 2017)

Ross Muir (born October 6, 1995 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish snooker player .

Career

Ross Muir already excelled as a successful youth player. From the age of 12 he played Century Breaks , at 14 he won the U15 youth competition Pontin's Star of the Future and a year later he was in the final of the next higher age group. He won the Sheffield Junior Pot Black tournament in 2009 . From the U14 championship on, he won several youth titles of the Scottish Federation, he was the captain of the U16 team that won the Home International title and in 2013, at the age of 18, he won the Scottish Senior Snooker Championship . He has been wearing billiard gloves since he was a teenager because of the disability caused by sweaty hands, which has become his trademark and earned him the nickname The Glove from Above .

Shortly thereafter, he attended Q School to qualify for the Snooker Main Tour . He had already tried unsuccessfully the year before, this time he won the second tournament in his group and thus secured participation in the professional tournaments for the next two years.

He had his first successes in the 2013/14 season at the Australian Goldfields Open 2013 , where he advanced to the last 64 with victories over James Cahill and Rod Lawler . His biggest success that year was reaching the round of 16 at the Zhangjiagang Open , a tournament of the Players Tour Championship . On the way there, he defeated local hero Ding Junhui for the first time, a top ten player. He also survived the first round in qualifying for the World Cup , but he did not make it into the top 100 in the world rankings this season and ended the season in 113th place. The following year he repeated his knockout round success at the Haining Open and also with the others He was able to score two tournaments on the Asia PTC Tour. Although he was only moderately successful in other tournaments and would have fallen out of the Main Tour as 99th in the world rankings, he was again allowed to compete in the professional circuit for two years via the Asia PTC classification.

His third year as a professional was more successful and there were mostly opening wins in major tournaments, including a 6-5 win against Mark King at the UK Championship . At the World Cup , too , he made it to round 2 and in the adjusted world rankings at the beginning of the 2016/17 season in 68th place.

In the qualifying round for the German Masters 2017 , he achieved the first maximum break of his career.

successes

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Ross Muir at CueTracker (as of September 14, 2019)
  2. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 350 kB) After the 2017 Betfred World Championship. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 2, 2017, accessed May 2, 2017 .
  3. ^ Knowles is crowned Super 6 king , BBC, April 23, 2009
  4. ↑ Interview with Ross Muir , Roland Cox, Snooker Island, June 18, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Muir, Ross
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh , Scotland