Stephen Maguire

Stephen Maguire
birthday	13th March 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Glasgow
nationality	Scotland
Nickname (s)	Merlin of Milton On-fire Maguire
professional	since 1998
Prize money	£ 2,992,252 (as of August 27, 2020)
Highest break	147 (3 ×)
Century Breaks	449 (as of August 27, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	6th
Minor tournament victories	3
World rankings
Highest WRL place	2 ( 08/09 - 09/10 )
Current WRL location	9 (as of August 17, 2020)

Maguire in the final of the German Masters 2012

Stephen Maguire (born March 13, 1981 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish snooker player .

Career

1998-2004

Maguire made his professional debut in 1998. His first major successes include victories at the IBSF World Championship in 2000 and 2004 at the European Open ranked tournament in Malta . His greatest success at first, however, was winning the 2004 UK Championship in York . This moved him to third place in the world rankings in the 2004/05 season .

2005-2007

After a disappointing 2005/06 season , he fell back to 9th place. Another tournament victory he succeeded in late 2007 at the Northern Ireland Trophy . At the following UK Championship he reached the final again, but had to admit defeat Ronnie O'Sullivan with 3:10.

2007–2012

On March 29, 2008, he managed his second maximum break in the semi-finals of the China Open . He then secured the tournament victory with a 10: 9 win over Shaun Murphy . This made him the second most successful player of the 2007/08 season behind O'Sullivan , and at the beginning of the following season he was second in the official world rankings for the first time in his career.

In spring 2010 the British police investigated him on suspicion of betting fraud. For his game in December 2008 against Jamie Burnett (against him was also determined) there were unusually many bets on the result that actually came about (9: 3 for Maguire). Maguire and Burnett denied the allegations, and in August 2010 the allegations were finally dropped.

As number 8 in the world rankings , he knocked out Chinese Liang Wenbo 5-2 at the beginning of the season in the preliminary round of the Wuxi Classic , but then lost just 4: 5 to Ding Junhui in the quarter-finals . In the first major tournament of the season, the Australian Goldfields Open , he lost his first round match against Ken Doherty 2-5 . In the following Shanghai Masters he did not get past Anthony Hamilton (4: 5) beyond the opening round.

At PTC Event 2 he was eliminated in the second round with 2: 4 against John Higgins . In the quarter-finals of the third event he had to admit defeat to Stephen Lee 1: 4 at the end of August . At the PTC event no. 5 he lost in the first round 2: 4 against old master Peter Ebdon . At the Warsaw Classic Maguire made it to the round of 16 and was knocked out 3: 4 against Neil Robertson . In a PTC tournament he then lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan. When the world rankings were first updated on October 3, he slipped one place down.

He confirmed his rather mediocre form with a 2-4 defeat against 83rd place Thai Dechawat Poomjaeng at the Alex Higgins Trophy in round 5. At the UK Championship , the eventual tournament winner Judd Trump defeated him 6-3 in the quarter-finals after Maguire had defeated reigning world champion John Higgins 6-4 in the round of 16. In early 2012 he won the FFB Snooker Open 2012 . After good performances at the German Masters 2012 in Berlin, he met Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final, against whom he drew the short straw 7: 9.

Thanks to his increase in performance, he was able to climb one place in the world rankings after cut-off point 3 . At the beginning of February in the Chinese Haikou held World Open he lost in the first round the surprise player of the tournament, Robert Milkins , 3: 5th At the PTC Grand Finals in Galway , Ireland , he made it to the semi-finals after victories over Mark Davis and Ricky Walden , but suffered a 4-0 defeat against Neil Robertson. At the China Open in Beijing he then reached the final, in which he narrowly failed to Peter Ebdon with 9:10.

Maguire reached the semi-finals of the 2012 World Snooker Championship , in which he had to admit defeat to Ali Carter 12:17. He had previously beaten Stephen Hendry 2:13. Hendry then announced his retirement from active sport.

Maguire at the German Masters 2013

From 2012

In July 2012 he won the first tournament of the PTC series in the UK with a 4-3 final win over Jack Lisowski . In August 2012 Maguire reached the final of the Players Tour Championship 2012/13 - Event 2 , but had to admit defeat Martin Gould 3-4. In February 2013 he defeated Stuart Bingham 9: 8 in the final of the Welsh Open , winning a title in a world ranking tournament for the first time since March 2008.

Maguire at the German Masters 2015

In September 2014 he won the 6-Red World Championship with an 8-7 final victory over Ricky Walden . In December he won the Lisbon Open , in the final he defeated the Englishman Matthew Selt 4-2. At the German Masters 2015 , Maguire reached the semi-finals, but had to admit defeat to Mark Selby 2: 6 .

At the Shanghai Masters 2016 he managed the third maximum break of his career.

He qualified for the 2017 World Cup. In the main round he was only defeated in the quarterfinals by Barry Hawkins with 9:13.

He also qualified for the 2018 Snooker World Championship , but lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan 7:10 in the main round after a 4-0 lead .

Personal

Stephen Maguire has a son (Finn, born November 2006) and a daughter (Faith). Since he can show a medical certificate (larynx / thyroid disease), he is exempt from wearing a bow tie or tie , which is mandatory in most tournaments according to the dress code for snooker players.

Final participation

World ranking tournaments

Maguire stood in world rankings in twelve finals, of which he won six.

Result	year	competition	Opponent in the final	Final score
winner	2004	European Open	Jimmy White	9: 3
finalist	2004	British Open	John Higgins	6: 9
winner	2004	UK Championship	David Gray	10: 1
winner	2007	Northern Ireland Trophy	Fergal O'Brien	9: 5
finalist	2007	UK Championship	Ronnie O'Sullivan	2:10
winner	2008	China Open	Shaun Murphy	10: 9
finalist	2011	Welsh Open	John Higgins	6: 9
finalist	2012	German Masters	Ronnie O'Sullivan	7: 9
finalist	2012	China Open	Peter Ebdon	9:10
winner	2013	Welsh Open	Stuart Bingham	9: 8
finalist	2019	UK Championship	Ding Junhui	6:10
winner	2020	Tour Championship	Mark Allen	10: 6

Minor ranking tournaments

With 6 finals, Maguire get 3 wins.

Result	year	competition	Opponent in the final	Final score
finalist	2010	Players Tour Championship - Event 1	Mark Williams	0: 4
finalist	2010	MIUS Cup	Stephen Lee	2: 4
winner	2012	FFB Snooker Open	Joe Perry	4: 2
winner	2012	Players Tour Championship - Event 1	Jack Lisowski	4: 3
finalist	2012	Players Tour Championship - Event 2	Martin Gould	3: 4
winner	2014	Lisbon Open	Matthew Selt	4: 2

Other tournament victories

• IBSF Amateur World Championship - 2000
• Merseyside Professional Championship - 2003/04
• Pro Challenge Series - Event 1 - 2009
• 6-Red World Championship - 2014 , 2019
• World Cup 2019 - team competition, with John Higgins

Web links

Commons : Stephen Maguire  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Player profile at World Snooker (English)
• Profile of Stephen Maguire on CueTracker
• Stephen Maguire in the Snooker Database (English)

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1. ↑ Snooker Info - 100Centuries (as of March 31, 2018)
2. ↑ Report in the Guardian
3. ^ Report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
4. ↑ Stephen Maguire and Jamie Burnett will not face charges over snooker fixing claims , The Telegraph, May 18, 2011
5. ↑ Maguire Breaks Trophy Drought ( English ) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . January 8, 2012. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
6. ↑ Chris Turner: Merseyside Professional Championship . In: cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk . Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on February 16, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2014.