Sam Baird

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Sam Baird
Sam Baird
birthday 17th June 1988 (age 32)
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 2009/10, since 2011
Prize money £ 274,917 (as of August 30, 2020)
Highest break 142 World Championship 2013 (qualification)
Century Breaks 92 (as of August 30, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 43 (July 2016)
Current WRL location 73 (as of August 17, 2020)

Sam Baird (born June 17, 1988 in Uffculme , Devon ) is an English snooker player .

Career

Beginnings

After Baird had won the Silver Waistcoat Tour in 2007, he also won the Golden Waistcoat Tour in 2009 . He also won the Pontin's Businessland U-21 series in 2008 . His greatest triumph as an amateur was winning the EASB Pro Ticket Tour series in 2009, which earned him a starting place on the Main Tour for the 2009/10 snooker season .

First year as a professional

He achieved his first professional victory at the first event of the Pro Challenge Series with a 4: 3 against Jamie Cope . Throughout his debut season, he was unable to qualify for the Round of 32 at any tournament. In qualifying for the China Open 2010 he achieved his first success with victories over Craig Steadman , Liu Song and Ian McCulloch . At the end of the season, his results were not enough to stay on the Main Tour.

Amateur time

In the following season, Baird (now again as an amateur) took part in several tournaments of the PTC series 2010/11 , but he never got beyond the round of 64. He also took part in the qualification for the World Cup, as you could register for this tournament as an amateur. With victories over the professionals Reanne Evans , Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon and Alfred Burden , he reached the penultimate, fourth qualifying round, in which he was only just defeated by 9:10 to Mike Dunn . Only the last black ball decided the game.

By reaching first place in the EASB Pro Ticket Tour 2010/11 , Baird finally qualified again for the Main Tour season 2011/12 .

Professional time

2011/12 season

In his first game again as a professional he was defeated in qualifying for the PTC Event 1 with 0: 4 to the Scots Graeme Dott . At the Australian Open 2011 he defeated Belgian Luca Brecel 5-1 in round 1 , but then lost 4-5 to Adrian Gunnell . In the second tournament of the Players Tour Championship he reached the round of 32 after victories over Liu Song and Stuart Bingham , where he was eliminated with 2: 4 against Liam Highfield . In the following event he lost his opening game 3-4 against Matthew Stevens . At the Paul Hunter Classic , the third event of the Players Tour Championship , he surprisingly defeated Marco Fu 4: 3 before losing 4: 2 to Jamie Cope . At the Shanghai Masters he lost 1: 5 to the Chinese Yu Delu in his opening game . At the fifth event at the PTC he defeated Zhang Anda 4: 3, but then lost 2: 4 to Dechawat Poomjaeng . In the sixth event he lost 3-4 in round 1 to Ian Burns , in the seventh event he lost 4-1 in the same round to James McGouran . In the eighth event he defeated the amateur JP Kelly before losing 4-0 to Stephen Lee . He also won the eighth event in round 1, this time 4-1 against Jürgen Van Den Bossche, but lost again in round 2, this time 2-4 against Jimmy White . Another great success was the tenth event : He surprisingly defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 4: 2 and moved into the round of 32 with a 4: 2 over Passakorn Suwannawat , where he beat ex-world champion Ken 2: 4 Doherty lost. In the UK Championship he defeated Liam Highfield 6-3 before losing 6-2 to Anthony McGill . He lost his first round game at the eleventh event of the PTC 4-0 to Judd Trump . At the FFB Snooker Open 2012 - the twelfth event of the Players Tour Championship - he defeated Simon Bedford 4: 3, before he was eliminated 3: 4 against Xiao Guodong . At the German Masters he lost 5-1 in the first qualifying round against Adrian Gunnell. Completely surprisingly, he defeated all four opponents in qualifying for the Welsh Open - Passakorn Suwannawat with 4: 1, Li Yan with 4: 1, Nigel Bond with 4; 3 and Dominic Dale with 4: 2 - so that he moved into the main round . There he was defeated by Mark Selby 4: 3. Also at the World Open he survived the qualification after victories over Luca Brecel 5: 3, Liu Chuang and Jimmy White 5: 1 and Mark Davis 5: 4, but lost in the wildcard with 3: 5 against Jin Long . At the China Open he lost 5-0 to Tian Pengfei in qualifying. At the Snooker World Championship he lost in the first qualifying round with 8:10 against David Grace . He finished the season on world number 79 , which was not enough for a qualification for the next season. Since he could not qualify via the Players Tour Championship either, he attended the Q School . Right in the first event he qualified for the group final after victories over Kacper Filipiak , George Mater, Allan Taylor and James Cahill , where he defeated Nick Jennings 4-0. He was thus able to qualify for the 2012/13 and 2013/14 seasons .

2012/13 season

The next season started for him with a defeat in the qualification for the Wuxi Classic , where he lost to Aditya Mehta 3: 5. His first victories were at the Australian Open , where he defeated Jamie O'Neill and Andy Hicks 5: 0 and 5: 3 in qualifying before losing to Dave Harold 4: 5 . At the first PTC event , he lost 4-2 to Steve Davis after beating Mike Dunn 4-2 . In the second event , he first defeated Eden Sharav before losing 4-1 to Mark Joyce . At the Paul Hunter Classic he lost his opening game 1: 4 to Mark Davis , as well as at the third British PTC event, where he lost to Michael White 2: 4. At the Shanghai Masters he lost 5-1 in qualifying against Australian Ben Judge . At the Gdynia Open he lost 4-2 to Kurt Maflin . At the International Championship he defeated Ben Judge 6-1 in the first qualifying round, but then had to admit defeat to David Gilbert 2-6. At the fourth British PTC event, he lost 4-1 in his opening game against Martin Gould . At the UK Championship he lost 6-2 to Pankaj Advani in the first round . At the Scottish Open he lost 4-1 to Dave Harold. At the Munich Open he lost 4-0 to Ricky Walden in the second round after beating Jamie Cope 4-2. At the German Masters he defeated Andy Hicks 5-3, before losing 5-0 to Barry Hawkins in the second qualifying round . The Welsh Open were a great success : he survived the qualification after a 4: 1 over Luca Brecel and a close 4: 3 against Martin Gould and he also won his game in the first main round with 4: 0 against Gerard Greene . In the next round, the round of 16, he was defeated by Robert Milkins 2-4 . At the World Open he lost 5-3 to Mike Dunn in the second qualifying round after defeating Tony Drago 5-4 . At the China Open he lost just 4: 5 to Dechawat Poomjaeng in the first qualifying round .

At the end of the season he achieved a sensation: In the first qualifying round of the World Snooker Championship he defeated Chen Zhe, who was 7 positions better, 10: 7. In the second followed Peter Lines , he was also better set and still lost in the last possible frame with 10: 9. Baird now met Rory McLeod, who was on position 38, and won again in the Decider with 10: 9. In the last qualifying round he met Joe Perry , who was on position 20, and defeated him 10: 3. So Baird managed to get into the main round, where he was the worst with 81st place. He lost relatively significantly in the first round against the later quarter-finalist Stuart Bingham . He finished the season in 81st place.

2013/14 season

His fourth season as a professional began with his entry into the round of 16 of the Bulgarian Open - the first tournament of the Players Tour Championship. After victories over Joe Steele (4: 2), Barry Pinches and Robert Milkins (both 4: 1) he lost 4 1 to Mark Williams, followed by two opening defeats : 5 1 at the Wuxi Classic against Michael White and at the Australian Open 4: 5 against Matthew Day , both times in the qualification. Also at the second European Tour event (part of the PTC series), after victories over Tomasz Skalski, Joe Perry and Kurt Maflin , he made it to the second round, where again against Mark Williams lost, this time 2-4 . In the following event he defeated Ratchayothin Yotharuck and Tian Pengfei before losing 4-2 to Mark Williams in the round of 32. In the Paul Hunter Classic he defeated Liu Chuang and Andrew Higginson , before he beat Welshman Michael White 2: 4. At the Shanghai Masters he won over Tony Drago and Dechawat Poomjaneg , before he lost to Yu Delu in the round of 64. At the Ruhr Open 2013 he won after victories over Ben Harrison and Fergal O'B rien made the round of 32, losing 4-2 to Mark Davis . There followed two defeats in his opening games: At the Indian Open he lost 4-2 to John Higgins and at the International Championship 5-6 against Dave Harold . At the sixth event of the European Tour he benefited from Li Yan's voluntary withdrawal , through which he started a winning streak, as he defeated Andrew Higginson 4-0, Ryan Day 4-1 and Ali Carter 4-2 before reaching the quarterfinals lost with 1: 4 against Graeme Dott . At the Antwerp Open he defeated James Cahill with and John Higgins with 4: 1 each and Rory McLeod with 4: 2, before he was eliminated with 1: 4 in the round of 16 against Ben Woollaston . Then he lost his opening games twice in a row: at the UK Championship with 2: 6 against Peter Lines and at the German Masters in qualification with 3: 5 against Andrew Higginson. Another great success was the Gdynia Open , where after victories over Vinnie Calabrese , Jamie Rhys Clarke , Nigel Bond , Barry Pinches and Alfie Burden, he reached the semifinals, where he lost 4-1 to Fergal O'Brien. At the Welsh Open , he defeated Robbie Williams 4-2 before losing to Stephen Maguire 4-3. At the World Open , he lost 5-2 to Martin Gould in the first qualifying round . Due to his good performance in the tournaments of the Players Tour Championship, he qualified for the Grand Finals . He lost 4-3 to Anthony Hamilton in the round of 32 . At the China Open he defeated Liu Chuang 5-2 in qualifying, but lost 5-2 to Zhao Xintong in the wildcard round . In the first qualifying round for the World Snooker Championship he lost 9:10 to John Astley . He finished the season on world number 67 , which was not enough for a qualification for the next season. But he was able to qualify for two more seasons on the PTC rankings.

2014/15 season

Sam Baird at the 2014 Paul Hunter Classic

The 2014/15 season started for Baird with an opening defeat at the Yixing Open 2014 . At the Wuxi Classic he got into the main tournament without a fight because Ali Carter was on a break due to cancer. There Baird Fraser was able to defeat Patrick 5: 3 before he lost 2: 5 to Michael Holt . At the Australian Open he lost 3: 5 to Michael Leslie in the round of 64 . At the Riga Open he defeated Peter Lines 4-2 before he was eliminated 3-4 by Judd Trump . At the Paul Hunter Classic he won 4-1 against Yu Delu before losing to Rod Lawler 2-4 . At the Shanghai Masters he defeated Lu Ning and Gary Wilson 5-3 and 5-4, before losing 4-5 to Stuart Carrington . At the third European Tour event , Baird was able to defeat Ashley Hugill 1: 4, but then lost to Luca Brecel 2: 4 . At the International Championship he managed a 6-4 victory over Michael Holt in qualifying. In the main round he first beat Kyren Wilson 6: 2, then Mark Davis 6: 5, before losing to Mark Williams 4: 6 in the second round . At the Ruhr Open he defeated Yu Delu 4-0 in qualifying, but then lost 4-0 to Judd Trump. In the first round of the UK Championship he lost 4-6 to Robbie Williams . At the Lisbon Open he defeated Luke Garland 4-2 and Michael Wasley 4-3 before losing 4-1 to Aditya Mehta . At the German Masters he defeated the returning Ali Carter 4: 5, but then lost 4: 5 to Alfie Burden . At the Welsh Open win over Fergal O'Brien and Dave Harold before losing 4-2 to Stephen Maguire in the round of 32 . At the Gdynia Open he defeated Ahmed Saif without a fight in qualification, but then lost 4-2 to Peter Ebdon . In the shoot-out , which has special rules , he defeated Stephen Maguire and Ricky Walden before losing to Alfie Burden . At the Indian Open he defeated Darryl Hill in qualifying 4-0 and then survived the wildcard round . In the first round of the main tournament he lost 4-0 to Rod Lawler. At the China Open he lost 3: 5 to Peter Ebdon in qualifying. In the first qualifying round for the World Snooker Championship , he defeated Tony Drago 10: 7, before losing to Adam Duffy 7:10. He finished the season at number 72 in the world .

2015/16 season

Baird at the 2015 Paul Hunter Classic

The 2015/16 season began with the Australian Open , where Baird defeated Duane Jones in qualifying and lost 5-0 to Michael Leslie in the first round of the tournament . At the Riga Open he lost his opening game 2-4 against Jason Weston . At the Paul Hunter Classic he lost 4-2 to Andrew Higginson in the first round and in qualifying for the Shanghai Masters he lost 4-5 to Leo Fernandez . At the Ruhr Open he managed a 4-2 win over Matthew Stevens , but then lost 4-1 to Alan McManus . At the International Championship he lost 4-6 against Zhou Yuelong in qualifying . At the Bulgarian Open he won 4: 0 over Rory McLeod , 4: 0 over Zhang Anda , 4: 0 over Chris Melling and 4: 3 over Jimmy Robertson . Then he met Judd Trump in the quarterfinals , but Baird surprisingly defeated him 4-1. In the semifinals he then lost 4-1 to Ryan Day . At the UK Championship he lost 5-6 to Aditya Mehta in the first round . At the Gibraltar Open , he defeated Paul Davison , before failing 2: 4 to Marco Fu . At the German Masters he lost 3: 5 to David Morris in the first qualifying round , and in the subsequent shoot-out he lost 7:50 to Jack Lisowski . At the Welsh Open he defeated Thor Chuan Leong 4-2, but then failed 4-0 to John Higgins . The Gdynia Open was a great success. He defeated two amateurs in the first two rounds, then even defeated Michael White and then lost to Mark Selby 3-4 in the round of 16 . Due to his good performance in the tournaments of the Players Tour Championship , he was qualified for the Grad Finals in Manchester. There he lost 4-2 to Mark King in the round of 32 . In qualifying for the China Open , he defeated Allan Taylor 5-3, but lost in the first round of the main tournament to reigning world champion Stuart Bingham .

Before the World Cup, Baird was world number 59, which would be enough for a qualification, but was far from guaranteed. But he did it: In the first qualifying round of the World Snooker Championship , he defeated Thor Chuan Leong 10: 8, followed by a 10: 7 win over Tom Ford . In the final qualifying round he had to play against Liam Highfield . It was 9: 9 before the last frame before Baird made it clear to move into the main round with a 75 break. There he defeated Michael White in an open exchange of blows, which he won with 10: 7. In the second round of the world championship he also lost in a game that was open until shortly before the end of 11:13 to Mark Selby , who a short time later was to win the world title for the second time. Due to his success at the world championship, he ended the season in world number 46 .

Season 2016/17

Sam Baird at the 2016 Paul Hunter Classic

The 2016/17 season began for Baird with the move into the main round of the Riga Masters , as he had defeated Daniel Wells 4-1. In the main tournament he then lost to David Gilbert 1: 4. At the Indian Open he defeated the Maltese Alex Borg 4-0, then he defeated Jack Lisowski 4: 3, but then lost 4: 2 to Nigel Bond . He missed the main round of the World Open by a 3: 4 defeat by Allan Taylor . At the Paul Hunter Classic he was able to defeat Daniel Ward 4-2. He then defeated Gary Wilson 4-1 and Liang Wenbo 4-2, before losing 4-2 to eventual winner Mark Selby in the round of 16 . At the Shanghai Masters he lost 5-1 to Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn in qualifying . He also lost in qualifying at the European Masters , this time 1: 4 against Zhao Xintong . At the English Open , the first tournament of the newly introduced Home Nation Series , he lost in the first round 3: 4 to Elliot Slessor . At the International Championship he defeated Michael Georgiou 6: 3 in qualification . This was followed by a 6-2 win over Michael White and a 6-4 win over Marco Fu , before losing 6-1 to Shaun Murphy in the round of 16 . At the Northern Ireland Open he defeated Noppon Saengkham and Marco Fu 4: 3 each, before failing 3: 4 to Gary Wilson. At the UK Championship he defeated Sean O'Sullivan 6-2 in the first round , but then lost 6-2 to Mitchell Mann . At the Scottish Open and the German Masters he lost his opening games, first 2: 4 against Mitchell Mann, then 1: 5 against Yan Bingtao . At the Welsh Open, he surprisingly threw John Higgins 4: 2 out of the tournament in qualifying , before failing 1: 4 to Craig Steadman . In the shoot-out he lost in the first round with 18:58 on points against Jamie Curtis-Barrett . At the Pro / Am tournament Gibraltar Open he lost 4-1 to Eden Sharav in the first round , and at the China Open world ranking tournament he lost 4-5 to Jimmy White . In the first qualifying round for the World Snooker Championship he defeated the amateur player Ross Vallance 10-2, then he lost 4:10 against Xiao Guodong . But the two round of 16 appearances were enough for world number 51 , which qualified him for the next season.

Season 2017/18

Right at the beginning of the 2017/18 season , Baird made it to the round of 16 of the Riga Masters . He defeated Matthew Selt 4: 3 in qualifying , Michael White 4: 0 in the first round and Noppon Saengkham 4: 2 in the round of 32 . In the round of 16 he lost 6-2 to Mark Joyce . At the China Championship he lost after a 5-2 win over Josh Boileau 2-5 in the first main round against Ronnie O'Sullivan . At the Paul Hunter Classic he defeated Jimmy Robertson 4-0 in the first round , but then lost 4-1 to Shaun Murphy . At the Indian Open he defeated Lucky Vatnani 4: 2 and Mark Davis in the first main round 4: 2 before losing 3: 4 to Ken Doherty . At the World Open he lost in qualifying 3-5 against Chen Zhe . At the European Masters he won 4: 3 in qualifying over Jimmy Robertson, but lost to David Gilbert 1: 4 in the first round . This was followed by a long series of defeats: at the English Open he lost 3: 4 to Ross Muir , in qualifying for the International Championship with 4: 6 against Li Yuan , in qualifying for the Shanghai Masters with 4: 5 against Soheil Vahedi , in the first round of the Northern Ireland Open with 3: 4 against Zhang Yong , in the first round of the UK Championship with 5: 6 against Aditya Mehta , in the Scottish Open with 1: 4 against Chris Totten , in the qualification for the German Masters with 0: 5 against Mark Selby , in the shoot-out with 24:36 on points against Joe Swail , at the Welsh Open with 1: 4 against Gary Wilson and at the Gibraltar Open with 3: 4 against Jamie Rhys Clarke , so he slipped out of the top 64 on the world rankings. At the China Open he managed to win again after a long time: Soheil Vahedi lost to him 5: 6. But then he lost 3: 6 against Barry Hawkins . At the snooker world championship he defeated Soheil 5:10 in the first qualifying round, but was then eliminated by 7:10 against Jimmy Robertson. He finished the season on world number 74 , which was not enough for a qualification for the next season. As a result, Baird took part in the Q School and defeated Hu Hao in the finals of his group in the first tournament, thus securing starting positions for the next two seasons.

Private

Baird attended comprehensive school in his native Uffculme. He finished his school career with the General Certificate of Secondary Education . He currently lives in Cullompton , a town in the county of Devon .

successes

Final participation

output year competition Final opponent Result
Amateur tournaments
winner 2012 Q School EnglandEngland Nick Jennings 4-0
winner 2018 Q School China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Hu Hao 4: 2

More Achievements

  • 2007: Silver Waistcoat Tour
  • 2008: Pontin's Businessland U-21 series
  • 2009: Gold Waistcoat Tour
  • 2009: EASB Pro-Ticket Tour

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  1. ↑ a b Profile of Sam Baird on CueTracker (as of August 17, 2018)
  2. ↑ Centuries by Sam Baird in Season 2012-2013. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed July 28, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b player profile at Global Snooker ( Memento from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Ron Florax: Sam Baird - Season 2011-2012 - Professional Results. (No longer available online.) CueTracker.net, 2012, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Ron Florax: Sam Baird - Season 2012-2013 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, 2013, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Ron Florax: Sam Baird - Season 2013-2014 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, 2014, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  7. ↑ World Rankings. WPBSA May 31, 2014; archived from the original on August 10, 2014 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Ron Florax: Sam Baird - Season 2014-2015 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, 2015, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  9. ↑ World Rankings. World Snooker , May 5, 2015, archived from the original on May 5, 2015 ; accessed on August 28, 2018 (English).
  10. ↑ Ron Florax: Sam Baird - Season 2015-2016 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, 2016, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  11. ↑ World Rankings. WPBSA , archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Ron Florax: Sam Baird - Season 2016-2017 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, 2017, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  13. ↑ 2018-08-25. WPBSA , May 2, 2017, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Ron Florax: Sam Baird - Season 2017-2018 - Professional Results. (No longer available online.) CueTracker.net, 2018, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  15. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF) (No longer available online.) WPBSA , May 7, 2018, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Qualifying School - Event One (2018). (No longer available online.) Snooker.org, May 19, 2018, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Player profile at World Snooker (archived)

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SURNAME Baird, Sam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th June 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Uffculme , Devon, England