Steve Judd

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Steve Judd
birthday 6th November 1968 (age 51)
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 1991-2002
Prize money £ 78,030
Highest break 143
Century Breaks 7th
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 74 (1995/96)

Steve Judd (born November 6, 1968 ) is an English snooker player from Nottingham . From 1991 to 2002 he played on the professional tour for 11 years .

Career

The open professional tour

Steve Judd became English champion in 1991 with a 13:10 victory over 15-year-old Ronnie O'Sullivan . He then took part in the professional tour from the 1991/92 season . The first tournament, the Dubai Classic , he started with a place in the final 96 after a 5-1 win over Barry Pinches . He achieved the same result at the Asian Open , at least at the European Open he still reached the bottom 128. He started his professional career at number 161 in the world rankings . The following year he once reached the last 32 in the first tournament of the Strachan Challenge . However, it was a tournament with reduced scores and few top players among the participants. In a full ranking tournament, the Welsh Open , he reached the main tournament of the last 64, but then had no chance against world champion Stephen Hendry at 5-0. At the UK Championship and the International Open , he reached the round of the last 96, but could not take part in the next qualifying round both times. In 1993/94 he was at the International Open after defeating Jim Wych in the main tournament. At the Thailand Open he survived the round of last 48 with a 5-1 win over number 16 in the world rankings David Roe and traveled to Bangkok , but then lost in the wildcard round before the round of 32 to a local amateur. Two more times in the season he reached the round of the last 96 and thus came into the top 128 of the ranking.

In the 1994/95 season there was no increase and only at the Grand Prix did he reach the main tournament. But he came under the last 96 four times, including for the first time at the World Cup . That was enough for an improvement to 74th place in the world rankings, which was his career high. He was eliminated eight times in the following season in the first or second round, only at the Thailand Classic and the World Championship he was among the last 96. Because the good penultimate season was also out of the ranking, it cost him a few places. Things went better again in 1996/97. At the Asian Classic he reached the last 48 after beating Matthew Stevens. At the Grand Prix and the British Open , he reached the main tournament of the last 64 twice.

Main tour years

After that, the field of players was divided into Main Tour and UK Tour and because he was not among the top 64, he had to qualify. In the first tournament he lost his opening match, but on the second attempt in the WPBSA Qualifying School he reached his group final and with a 5-1 win over Ian McCulloch he was allowed to continue to compete in the major tournaments. His best result in the 1997/98 season was the round of 32 at the Welsh Open . He defeated the number 11 in the world rankings Tony Drago in the tournament 5: 3 as well as the 34th Dennis Taylor . He came under the last 64 three times, at the World Cup it was his best World Cup result. This improved him again to 79th place.

The following year, Judd was only in the bottom 64 at the UK Championship . In the other ranking tournaments, he won only three games together. In the 1999/2000 season he defeated Dave Harold , number 17 in the world rankings, at the British Open and was among the bottom 32 for the second time in his career in a ranking tournament. At the Thailand Masters , he reached the third round, but otherwise it was again many defeats at the beginning. In 2000/01 he finally only reached the third round at the British Open and won only three more matches, slipping down to 128th place. But with that he also lost his professional status for the next season.

Amateur tournaments after professional time

Then he had to go to the Challenge Tour to get back to the Main Tour. At the very first tournament he reached the final, which he lost to James Reynolds . But only one more round of 16 in the other three tournaments was not enough to get one of the qualifying places in the tour standings. 2002/03 was disappointing with only two game wins in the four tournaments. In the following year he had already lost all chances with 3 defeats in the first few tournaments, reaching the quarter-finals in the last tournament was still a ray of hope. In 2004/05 he started with a quarter-finals, but after two defeats in the second round he did not appear in the fourth tournament. The following year he still played in 3 of the 8 tournaments of the new PIOS tournament, but without achieving much.

After that, he stopped his main tour ambitions for the time being, but then took part in the entire Pontins series again in 2009/10. Although he reached the quarter-finals once, he also lost his opening match four times. The end result was 55th place overall. From 2010 there was the Players Tour Championship (PTC), where amateurs and professionals played together. In three tournaments in England he reached the main round in 2010, but lost all games against the professionals. After that, he unsuccessfully participated in the Q School . At the PTC tournaments of the following season he was also unsuccessful, only at the Paul Hunter Classic 2011 he reached the main round. It was his last appearance in professional snooker at the age of 43. But he still took part in the international amateur championships for the older age groups. He won the Masters tournament of the European Championship in 2011 against Alan Trigg and reached the final in 2012, which he lost to Darren Morgan . Against Morgan, he lost in the quarterfinals of the World Championship Masters that same year.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

  • Round of 16: WSA Open Tour (2001 - Event 2)
  • Round of the last 32: Strachan Challenge (minor ranking tournament 1992 - Event 1, non-ranking tournament 1994 - Event 1)

Qualifying tournaments:

  • Group win: WPBSA Qualifying School 1997
  • Final: Challenge Tour (2001 - Event 1)

Amateur tournaments:

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Steve Judd on CueTracker (as of February 11, 2018)
  2. ↑ PIOS Ranking - Season 2009/2010 ( Memento from October 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Judd, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1968