Sean Storey

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Sean Storey
birthday 19th August 1971 (age 49)
place of birth Immingham
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 1991-2007
Prize money £ 177,130
Highest break 145
Century Breaks 36
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 50 (2004)

Sean Storey (born August 19, 1971 in Immingham ) is an English snooker player . From 1991 he was active as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour for 16 years .

Career

Initial successes and setbacks

Sean Storey didn't start playing snooker until he was 14. He was one of the players who registered for the professional tournaments when the professional tour opened in 1991. In the first year he had his first major success when he came through 4 rounds of amateur qualification at the Asian Open and then defeated Jon Wright and Eugene Hughes, two players with several years of professional experience. He reached the main tournament of the last 64, where he was against the world rankings -9. Dennis Taylor lost. Otherwise he only came close to the bottom 128 at the Strachan Open , but his first world ranking at the end of the 1991/92 season was No. 147, which saved him from the first qualifying rounds. He started the next season with another main tournament entry at the Dubai Classic . He also repeated the result from the previous year at the Asian Open . In the second tournament of the Strachan Challenge , a series with reduced rating points, he was also in the bottom 64. Jason Prince and Stephen Murphy were among the top 64 players he defeated this season. In 1993/94 he won only one match in the first five tournaments, but then he reached the main tournament again at the Welsh Open . At the Strachan Challenge he came under the bottom 64 twice, but there were no more world ranking points this season. At the end of the season he also achieved the result at one of the major tournaments, the World Cup . This also improved him to 96th place in the world rankings.

Two lean years followed. 1994/95 season he lost his opening match 7 times. He only reached round 2 twice, but then each time he lost. The following year he started with another top 64 placement at the Thailand Classic , but after that he lost almost all tournaments in either round 1 or 2. So he fell back to 129th place in the ranking. In the 1996/97 season he was then at the Asian Classic and the Benson and Hedges Championship in the last 64, before he defeated a top 32 player at the Grand Prix with Dennis Taylor for the first time and moved into the round of 32. At the British Open he reached the main tournament one more time. He reached the third round three more times. In one year he made up for the setback of the two previous years and climbed back to 82nd place.

Main tour years

For the 1997/98 season , the professional field was again limited and divided into Main Tour and UK Tour. Storey had no problem qualifying for the top tour through the WPBSA Qualifying School. After he had just failed in the first tournament, he won his group 5-1 against Joe Delaney in the second tournament . His opening match in the season he lost at the Grand Prix with 1: 5 against Euan Henderson . He returned the favor at the UK Championship 6: 1 and after defeating Martin Clark he was also in the last 32 of the second most important tournament. There he held up to 5: 5 against world number one Stephen Hendry , but then lost 7 : 9. At the Welsh Open he reached the main round again after a narrow 5: 4 victory over the 15th in the world rankings Darren Morgan . At the Thailand Masters he was among the last 48. Because of the first round at the World Cup, he missed the advance into the top 64 of the world rankings and 72nd place was his preliminary career highlight. After a messed up season with only three wins, there were at least three top 64 results in 1999/2000. Nevertheless, he threatened to drop out of the top 100 again. This tendency intensified the following year when he did not get beyond the second round of a tournament by the half of the season. Although he even made it to the round of 16 at the Benson and Hedges Championship, there were no ranking points. Round 3 of the Welsh Open didn't change much either. Then he was also in the final World Cup in round 3. He defeated Gary Ponting and then the up-and-coming Stephen Maguire and played against the Northern Irish Terry Murphy for the first time to enter the main tournament. The even match went into the decision-making frame, which Storey won 64: 2. In the Crucible Theater of Sheffield he met the next Northern Ireland: Even against the world number 16th Joe Swail developed an even game. After 7: 7, the Englishman gained a 9: 7 advantage, but did not manage to complete it. Swail equalized and then kept the upper hand in the decision-making frame with 92-0. After his greatest success up to then, he also successfully started the 2001/02 season and reached the round of 48 at the British Open after defeating Darren Morgan again. At the Benson and Hedges Championship, which was held without the top 16 in the world rankings, he reached the semi-finals after victories over Terry Murphy and Michael Judge . In the other tournaments he was eliminated several times in round 1, only at the Scottish Open he reached round 4 and the world championship also ended with the opening match. With 82nd place it was as far as it was five years ago.

The 2002/03 season then turned out to be the most successful of his career. At the British Open he was in the last 48 for the first time. After two top 64 results he was also in the last 48 at the Irish Masters and at the Scottish Open he came one more round to the main tournament. At the World Cup , he then had to defend the points from two years ago. With a win over Dominic Dale he made it into the Crucible for the second time and against the 13th in the world rankings Joe Perry he even made it to the last 16 with a clear 10: 4 victory. Against John Higgins he then clearly lost 7:13. In the world rankings, the result brought him up to 51st place. But there was another bad season with 6 defeats at the beginning. Only reaching the round of last 48 at the European Open was a success and brought him even one place higher to position 50, his highest world ranking.

In 2004/05 he then lost many points because the results of his successful season lapsed. Only in the UK Championship he reached the third round, four times he came in round 2 and at the World Cup he lost the opening match again. He fell out of the top 64 and only the one-year rating saved him from being on the tour. Round 3 at the UK Championship was his best result the following year and again he lost the last three opening games. With 65th place, he would have narrowly missed the professional status this time, but he was lucky again. The world association awarded two wildcards for the next season and selected the long-time professional for one. In his 16th season, the now 37-year-old Englishman still had a few decent results and made it to the bottom 64 of the UK Championship for the third time in a row . In the end, it was only 80th in the world rankings, which means he finally left the Main Tour and finally ended his professional career.

Records

During his professional career, a break of 145 points at the 2001 British Open was Sean Storey's best result. In 1997, however, he set a record at an invitation tournament for the South Yorkshire Times in Mexborough with professionals and amateurs. He was the first player to score two maximum breaks in an official tournament. In the quarter-finals against Steve Judd and in the semifinals against Karl Burrows he managed the “perfect break” with a maximum of 147 points. This also earned him an entry in the Guinness Book of Records .

He was involved in another record. At the qualifying tournament for the Asian Open in Stoke-on-Trent in 1992, a frame of 93:92 ended in the round 5 game between Storey and Graham Cripsey. Storey missed the ball to be hit 13 times in a row and thus contributed a lot of foul points. 185 points from both players in a frame is the highest known score in an official match. Storey eventually won the match 5-1.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

  • Group Winner: WPBSA Qualifying School (1997 - Tournament 2)

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Sean Storey on CueTracker (as of January 29, 2018)
  2. ↑ Cueview: Sean Storey Exclusive. St Blazey & District Snooker League, November 28, 2012, accessed January 29, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Eric Eggert: Second wildcard to Sean Storey. Snookerblog, June 27, 2006, accessed January 29, 2018 .
  4. ^ Lincolnshire People - Noble and Ignoble. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition, December 9, 2012, accessed January 29, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Snooker - Malta Cup: Tony Drago Featured five times in list of major records. Malta Independent, January 17, 2008, accessed January 29, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Liverpool Victoria UK Championship 1997 - Report. snooker.org, April 20, 2012, accessed January 29, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Storey, Sean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Immingham