Stephen Craigie

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Stephen Craigie
birthday 19th June 1990 (age 30)
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 2008/09
Prize money £ 8,395
Highest break 100
Century Breaks 1
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 79 (2009)

Stephen Craigie (born June 19, 1990 ) is an English snooker player from Newcastle . In 2008/09 he played a year as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour

Career

Stephen Craigie was a very successful youth player. He started playing snooker at the age of 6 and at the age of 12 he was part of the England team in an international U14 tournament and only gave a single frame in his games. In 2003 the family got their own snooker table from the dissolution of a local club. Craigie was also the youngest ever winner of a pro-am tournament in Northeast England and was awarded the Rising Star Award for Young Athletes. At the age of 15 he took part in a Pro-Am tournament series in Prestatyn , at that time a center of snooker. He reached the Grand Final and was among the last 32. At the U19 European Championships , he reached the quarter-finals. At the age of 16 he tried to get a place on the Main Tour via the PIOS tour in Prestatyn and has already achieved some respectable successes, but not yet a great result. In his second PIOS year he made it to the semi-finals in one of the 8 tournaments, where he was defeated by Kuldesh Johal . In the Pro-Am series in the same place, he reached the finals in a tournament and defeated Ryan Day and Martin Gould , among others , but also benefited from two rejections by his opponents. In the final he was defeated by Dominic Dale 2: 4. The highlight of the season for him was the U19 European Championship in Glasgow . After beating Vincent Muldoon 5-0 in the semi-finals , he won the final against Scottish local hero Anthony McGill 6-2. Winning the title also earned him a place on the professional tour at the age of 18.

Although he did well on his professional debut, the 2008-09 season came too early. Although he reached the round of 64 at the Shanghai Masters and the Welsh Open and won his opening match at three other tournaments, he did not win the major tournaments. Against Lee Spick , against whom he had previously won, he clearly lost 5:10 in the World Cup . 79th place among the 96 professionals in the seasonal accounting was not enough for another Main Tour year.

He tried to return immediately through the PIOS tournaments. He reached the quarter-finals twice and the second round four times, but he missed one big result. In the overall standings he stayed in 9th place and missed re-qualification by one place. He also missed re-qualification for a win at the English Open, which was about the Main Tour starting place for the English Association: He lost the final 4: 6 against Robbie Williams . From 2010 there was no more qualifying tour , instead the Players Tour Championship with Pro-Am tournaments was introduced. In the second tournament in Sheffield he defeated Jimmy White , Kurt Maflin and Tom Ford and reached the round of 16. However, he only took part in two other tournaments in the same place without significant success and therefore played no role in the tour ranking. At the same time he was overtaken in the family by his brother Sam , who was three years his junior . At the U21 World Cup in Ireland they met in the semi-finals and Sam won 7-6. At the end of the season, Stuart Carrington played fate, who only threw him out of the tournament in the quarter-finals of the English national championship and defeated him 4-2 a little later in the Q School in the decisive game for the Main Tour qualification.

In the 2011/12 season, Craigie then tried harder to participate in the PTC series . In 8 of the 12 tournaments he was in the main round and twice he reached the round of 32. He defeated, among others, Dominic Dale , Michael Holt and Ben Woollaston . In the tour standings he played no role. In the English championship he missed the finals after a 6-8 defeat by Gary Wilson . He did not take part in the Q School afterwards and withdrew from snooker for several years. It was not until he was 26 that he returned to the Q School, but was unsuccessful.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Amateur tournaments:

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Stephen Craigie on CueTracker (as of January 14, 2018)
  2. ^ It's a fair cop for Craigie. Snooker Scene Blog, August 25, 2011, accessed January 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 2009-10 PIOS Rankings (After Event 8) ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Snooker: Stephen Craigie just fails in Tour bid. Evening Chronicle, December 1, 2010, accessed January 14, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Craigie, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1990