Stephen Rowlings
| Stephen Rowlings | |
|---|---|
| birthday | 4th February 1976 (age 44) |
| place of birth | Preston |
| nationality |
 England
|
| professional | 2009/10 |
| Prize money | £ 8,820 |
| Highest break | 127 |
| Century Breaks | 12 |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | - |
| Ranking tournament victories | - |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
| World rankings | |
| Highest WRL place | 91 (2010) |
Stephen Rowlings (born February 4, 1976 in Preston ) is an English snooker player and trainer. In the 2009/10 season he played a year as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour .
Career
Stephen Rowlings was around 10 when he started snooker. At the age of 21, he took part in a UK Tour tournament for the first time to qualify for the professional tournaments. Although he survived the pre-qualification, he was eliminated in the first round. From 2000, when the snooker world championship was still open to amateurs, he took part there. He made his first serious efforts to become a professional from the 2002/03 season. In the Challenge Tour , he reached the round of 16 in two of the four tournaments. At the Benson & Hedges Championship , which is also open , he beat professional Antony Bolsover and reached the round of 64.
After a weaker year, he made it to the semi-finals in a Challenge tournament in 2005. The following year the PIOS tour was introduced with eight individual tournaments and this time he reached the final of the third tournament, where he lost 6-1 to Liu Song . Despite another quarter-finals and two rounds of 16 in other tournaments, he missed the 8 qualification places for the Main Tour as 11th in the tour ranking. Another weaker year followed with a PIOS quarter-final as the best result and a semi-final in 2007/08 was also too little for qualification. Also in the PIOS Tour 2008/09 he did not win a tournament, but twice he reached the semi-finals and once more the quarter-finals. He reached 5th place overall and after 7 years he had finally achieved professional status.
He was allowed to take part in professional tournaments in the 2009/10 season and at the second tournament, the Grand Prix in Scotland, he achieved his first professional victory over James Wattana with 5: 1. At the Welsh Open , he managed a narrow 5-4 win over Mei Xiwen . After that, there were only two tournaments left in this season, in which he lost the opening match. He finished the season as 91st of 96 players and could not hold on to the Main Tour.
A year later he took part again in the World Cup and came there again in the round of the last 96. During the season, there had been no qualifying tour. After the World Cup, however, there was now the Q School with three consecutive tournaments. He tried one last time to qualify, but after being knocked out early twice and losing his group semi-finals in the second tournament, he gave up his professional ambitions.
As a teenager, Rowlings was trained by Frank Callan, who worked with the best players like Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry . He later became a training partner of Ian McCulloch , also from Preston , and also worked with his coach Mick Caddy. Eventually he became a snooker trainer himself and is even more known for this than for his playing career. He attracted particular attention with a training DVD that he released in 2008.
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- ↑ a b c Profile of Stephen Rowlings on CueTracker (as of January 6, 2018)
- ↑ Pot and shoot! - Preston supercoach Stephen Rowlings has launched his own coaching DVD so players don't miss a trick. BBC , February 12, 2009, accessed January 6, 2018 .
Web links
- Profile in the Pro Snooker Blog (English)
- Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rowlings, Stephen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English snooker player and trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th February 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Preston , England |