Stuart Mann

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Stuart Mann
birthday 30th December 1972 (age 47)
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 1991–1997, 1998/99, 2000/01, 2003/04, 2005/06
Prize money £ 29,160
Highest break 132
Century Breaks 12
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 90 (2006)

Stuart Mann (born December 30, 1972 ) is an English snooker player from Stanford-le-Hope in Essex . Between 1991 and 2006 he played a total of 10 years as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour .

Career

Like many players, Stuart Mann began his career in professional snooker in the 1991/92 season , when professional tournaments were also opened for amateurs. This resulted in long qualifying rounds. In the first year he won only four games, but in the second year he reached round 6 at the Welsh Open and round 5 two more times. In 1993/94 he reached the round of 128 for the first time at the Benson & Hedges Championship , defeating Alain Robidoux . However, this was not a ranking tournament. At the UK Championship he also advanced to the higher qualifying rounds in a major tournament and was among the bottom 96. In the second half of the season, however, there were also many opening defeats. In 1994/95 he made little progress and a year later he only played 4 tournaments and won only one game. He was back where he had started his career.

Since the Main Tour was introduced in 1997 and the field of players was to be limited, he had to achieve significantly better results in the 1996/97 season in order to remain a professional. At the Benson & Hedges Championship, he finished in the bottom 32 and then made progress in the ranking tournaments. At the Grand Prix he reached the bottom 128 and at the World Championship he made the best-of-19 laps, defeating Steve Newbury and Nick Walker , both in the top 80 of the world rankings , and losing in the bottom 96 against Graeme Dott . A lack of consistency and 6 defeats at the beginning cost him professional status anyway.

In the following years it went up and down between Main Tour and UK Tour . In 2000 he reached the semi-finals at a UK tour tournament, in the 2000/01 season he played the major tournaments again and improved his world championship result to the round of 64. He defeated, among others, Martin Dziewialtowski and Matthew Couch , number 57 in the world rankings . But this time, too, there was no further success and he had to go back to the Challenge Tour qualification. The next year he was unsuccessful, in 2003/04 he reached the final once and twice the round of 32nd 2003/04 he returned to the Main Tour, but again only at the World Cup he reached round 3. Again he fell from the professional tour, he returned via the Challenge Tour, even without an outstanding tournament result. With a reduced professional field and only 6 professional tournaments, he had it difficult in the 2005/06 season . He achieved only two wins, at the Grand Prix against Drew Henry and at the China Open against Rod Lawler , both times 5-4. Out of 96 professionals, he finished 90th in the end and after 10 professional years it was over again and this time finally. He continued to play on the PIOS tour, but at first he only won a single game in 8 tournaments and the following year he reached the quarter-finals and then the second round, but otherwise there was no result with points. After three more unsuccessful PIOS tournaments in 2008, he ended his professional career.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Stuart Mann at CueTracker (as of February 3, 2018)

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personal data
SURNAME Man, stuart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1972