Ryan Day

Ryan Day
birthday	23rd March 1980 (age 40)
place of birth	Bridgend
nationality	Wales
Nickname (s)	Fivva, The Tilting Teapot, Dynamite
professional	since 1999
Prize money	£ 1,708,653 (as of August 27, 2020)
Highest break	147 ( Haining Open 2014 )
Century Breaks	380 (as of August 27, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	2
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	6 ( 2009/10 )
Current WRL location	37 (as of August 17, 2020)

Ryan Day (born March 23, 1980 in Bridgend ) is a Welsh snooker player .

Career

First professional years

Day made his professional debut in 1999. He won the 2001 B&H Snooker Championship at Mansfield , which earned him a wildcard for the Masters . There Day was able to defeat Dave Harold in the first round , but then failed to Stephen Hendry . Reaching the round of 16 at the Welsh Open 2001 was his greatest success at a traditional tournament to date.

In 2003, Day was thrown back in sports due to health problems. In 2004, however, he qualified for the first time for the World Snooker Championship , where he lost 7:10 to John Higgins in the first round .

Establishment

At the 2006 World Cup, he drew attention to himself with his first round success against Joe Perry , whom he clearly defeated 10: 3. In the subsequent round of 16 he was only barely defeated by the former world number one Ronnie O'Sullivan .

His biggest success so far was Ryan Day at the 2007 Malta Cup when he reached the final, in which he was defeated by Shaun Murphy 4-9. Only a few months later he was again in the final of the Shanghai Masters , but lost there again, this time against his Welsh compatriot Dominic Dale , where he lost eight frames in a row after a 6-2 lead and ultimately lost 6:10. The end of the 2007/08 season was also quite successful: at the China Open he was only eliminated in the semi-finals and at the 2008 World Cup he reached the quarter-finals. With that he collected so many world ranking points that he was among the top eight players in the world for the first time.

Although Ryan Day was defeated by John Higgins (7: 9) in the final of the Grand Prix 2008, he managed to climb to 3rd place in the Provisional Ranking for the first time by reaching this final.

In 2008 he won the Austrian Snooker Open , which is not part of the Snooker Main Tour . In the world rankings he lost some ground after his sixth place in the 2009/10 season .

Ryan Day scored the first official maximum break of his career at the 2014 Haining Open .

In 2015 he was in the final again at the Bulgarian Open and this time lost to Mark Allen 4-0.

2016/17 snooker season and 2017/18 season

In 2017 he reached the final of the 2017 World Grand Prix and lost to Barry Hawkins with 7:10

At the start of the 2017/18 season , he made it into the final of a world ranking tournament for the sixth time in his career at the Riga Masters . With a 5-2 win against Stephen Maguire , he won a Main Tour title for the first time in his 19th professional year.

In the final stages of the season he was in the final one more time. At the Gibraltar Open he met the Chinese Cao Yupeng and won his second rankings with a 4-0 win.

The following week he was one of the top 16 players invited to the Romanian Masters . In the second tournament in a row he reached the final and again he won the title by a 10-8 win over Stuart Bingham .

By losing his qualifier for the China Open 2018 , he had to qualify for the 2018 World Snooker Championship . Day survived the qualification, but then lost in the first round at the Crucible with 8:10 against Anthony McGill .

Others

Ryan's younger brother Rhys Day is a soccer player and has played for Mansfield Town and Manchester City ; he was also the captain of the Welsh U21s.

successes

• Winner Riga Masters 2017
• Winner Gibraltar Open 2018
• Winner Romanian Masters 2018

Web links

Commons : Ryan Day  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player profile on snooker virus (German)
• Ryan Day in the Snooker Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile of Ryan Day at CueTracker (as of August 17, 2018)