Roy Stolk
| Roy Stolk | |
|---|---|
| birthday | 11th January 1979 (age 41) |
| place of birth | Suffer |
| nationality |
 Netherlands
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| professional | 2006/07 |
| Prize money | 250 pounds |
| Highest break | 101 ( WM 2007 , Q) |
| Century Breaks | 1 |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | - |
| Ranking tournament victories | - |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
| World rankings | |
| Highest WRL place | 96 (2007) |
Roy Stolk (born January 11, 1979 in Leiden ) is a Dutch snooker player from Zeist . In the 2006/07 season he played as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour .
Career
Roy Stolk is one of the most successful snooker players from the Netherlands. At the age of 20 he won the national championship for the first time . He had previously reached the semi-finals of the U21 World Cup in Malta. At the international championships he usually reached the main tournament in the following years. In 2001 he won his second national title. In 2003 he tried to qualify for professional snooker via the Challenge Tour . However, he lost all opening matches without exception. When he had already finished the first two tournaments in the first round of the subsequent PIOS tour, he gave up this access. At the Dutch Open, a tournament in his home country with the participation of professional players, he defeated a professional player with Stefan Mazrocis in 2004 , even if he was eliminated in the quarter-finals afterwards.
At the 2006 European Championship , Stolk reached the round of 16 and lost to eventual winner Alex Borg . In parallel to the tournament, a play-off tournament was held for the first time , in which amateurs who did not come from the British Isles could qualify for the main tour . He reached the final and defeated the Swiss Douglas Hogan 4-2. So he was eligible to start in the professional tournaments in the 2006/07 season . However, he lost almost all matches. Only in the group stage of the Grand Prix did he manage to beat Andrew Higginson 3-0 . At the UK Championship he just lost 8: 9 to Ian Preece . At the World Cup he had to play a pre-qualification game against the amateur Philip Seaton , which he won 10: 7. Against Tian Pengfei he lost the first round game with 2:10. He finished last in the world rankings and lost his professional status again.
After that, the Dutchman made himself rare internationally. But in 2010 he returned successfully. After winning his third national title, he reached the final at the European Championships . He lost to Luca Brecel 4-7. In addition, he tried one more time to get on the professional tour via the international play-offs. Also there he reached the final and lost just 4: 5 against longtime professional Tony Drago .
In the following years he was three times in the finals of the national championship and won the title once. He has regularly won national ranking tournaments and participated in some of the Players Tour Championship open to amateurs . At the Paul Hunter Classic 2010 he reached the main round. At the 2013 European Championships , he reached the semifinals. He also took part in German ranking tournaments and won two Grand Prix tournaments in 2015 and 2016 against Robin Otto and Simon Lichtenberg, respectively . In the 2017/18 season he joined the SC 147 Essen in the German snooker league .
successes
Amateur tournaments:
- European championship : final 2010 , semi-final 2013
- Dutch Champion : Men (1999, 2001, 2010, 2011, 2018), Doubles (2002, 2009, 2015), 6-Red (2015)
swell
- ↑ a b c Profile of Roy Stolk on CueTracker (as of January 26, 2019)
- ^ Roy Stolk (data sheet). SnookerBlog, accessed January 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Stolk wint NK snooker. NRC Handelsblad , April 6, 1999, accessed January 27, 2018 .
Web links
- Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Proud Roy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch snooker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leiden , Netherlands |