Sean Maddocks

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Sean Maddocks
birthday April 10, 2002
place of birth Liverpool
nationality EnglandEngland England
Nickname (s) Mad Dog
professional since 2020
Prize money 250 pounds
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Sean Maddocks (born April 10, 2002 in Liverpool ) is an English snooker player . In 2020 he received the right to take part in the professional tour .

Career

Sean Maddocks' talent was discovered at the age of 10 and he got a permanent snooker trainer with Neil Johnson. Two years later he was one of the best youth players in his region and was named Snooker Gym Junior Player of the Year . In the following years he won 7 youth titles of different ages in County Merseyside and was 5 times U-17 champion of the Northwest region .

In July 2017, he made headlines when he was 15 years and 90 days old and was the youngest player to score a maximum break in an official tournament . He undercut the previous record holder Ronnie O'Sullivan by 8 days and was entered in the Guinness Book of Records . In the same year he won his first senior tournament, the Merseyside Open , against ex-professional John Whitty . At the U18 and U21 European championships of the European association, he came in the last 32 each year.

Then he tried to qualify for the professional tour at the age of 16 . In his very first Q-School tournament , he made it straight to the quarter-finals of his group, but was unable to repeat the performance in the other two tournaments. He gained further experience in the Challenge Tour 2018/19 , where he made it into the round of 16 twice. In the first tournament of Q School 2019 , he beat three players with professional experience with Chen Zifan , Barry Pinches and Hamza Akbar , but failed in the decider against David Lilley with 0: 4. In early 2020, Maddocks got a second chance. At the Junior Open of the World Snooker Federation (WSF) he reached the final of a qualifying tournament again. He lost the match 2: 5 against Gao Yang and again missed direct tour access. At his second U18 European Championship in March 2020, Maddocks reached the final and lost to defending champion and eventual U21 champion Aaron Hill . With that, however, he had also lost the third game for a tour ticket within a very short time.

Ultimately, however, he benefited from the COVID-19 pandemic , because of which a qualifying tournament in China was canceled. The world federation decided to subsequently award two remaining tour places to the runners-up in the two WSF tournaments. This gave him the right to take part in the professional tournaments of the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons . Sean Maddocks is training partner in Liverpool for professional players Rod Lawler , Ricky Walden and Andrew Higginson, among others .

successes

Amateur tournaments:

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  1. ^ New Talent Sean Maddocks Wows at First Snooker Exhibition. Snooker Zone, August 5, 2018, accessed June 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Profile of Sean Maddocks on CueTracker (as of June 14, 2020)
  3. ↑ Sean Maddocks (profile). Eurosport , accessed June 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Neil Johnson: Sean Maddocks (profile). July 9, 2017, accessed June 14, 2020 .
  5. ^ Sean Maddocks - Officially the World Record Holder. Snooker Hub, 2018, accessed June 14, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Youngest snooker player to score a 147 break. Guinness Book of Records , July 9, 2017, accessed June 14, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Sean Maddocks - Record Breaker. Snookerbacker, February 23, 2018, accessed June 14, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ones to Watch - Sean Maddocks. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 20, 2020, accessed June 14, 2020 .
  9. ^ New Recruit from Snooker's Mersey Paradise. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , June 10, 2020, accessed June 14, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Maddocks, Sean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 2002
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool