Terry Parsons

Terry Parsons
birthday	June 19, 1935
place of birth	Trealaw , glamorgan
date of death	8th May 1999 (age 63)
Place of death	Pen-y-graig , mid-glamorgan
nationality	Wales
Prize money	£ 3,250
Highest break	138/103
Century Breaks	at least 3
Success at amateur tournaments
World championships	1 ( 1982 )
National championships	5 (1961, 1965, 1969, 1982 & 1984)
Best results
Professional tournaments	Victory WPBSA Per Ticket Series 1985/2

Terence "Terry" Parsons (born June 19, 1935 in Trealaw , Glamorgan ; † May 8, 1999 in Pen-y-graig , Mid Glamorgan ) was a Welsh snooker player who, during his career as an amateur player, five times the Welsh snooker championship as well won the amateur world championship once .

Life

Snooker career

Parsons first appeared in 1961 when he won the Welsh Snooker Championship 6-2 against John Price . On his way to the final, he won victories over Mario Berni , Aubrey Kemp and the later professional Clive Everton . Four years later he won the championship for the second time, this time 6-2 over Bob Berryman . He won his third championship title in 1969 with a 6-1 win over John Prosser .

After several years of abstinence, he moved into the quarter-finals of the snooker championship in 1981, where he lost to the eventual finalist Elwyn Richards . The next year he managed to win his fourth title, in the final he defeated Mario Berni, who was also successful in the sixties. In the same year, family man Parsons traveled to Calgary, where the 1982 World Amateur Championship was to take place. Although he was very homesick, he survived the group with seven wins and one loss to Irishman Paddy Browne . In the main round he succeeded in the quarterfinals a white wash over Malcolm Bradley and in the semifinals an 8: 5 victory over his compatriot Wayne Jones , so that he was in the final of the amateur world championship. After the first session he was 7-1 against Jim Bear , but in the end he won 11-8. A year later he was in the final of the Welsh Championship for the fifth time, but where he lost 4-8 to Wayne Jones. The revenge followed a year later, this time Parsons was able to win his fifth title with an 8: 7 win over Jones. In the same year he played again in an amateur world championship , which this time took place in Dublin. In his group he won victories over the Canadian champion Tom Finstad and the Swedish championship finalist Bengt Bjorkman , who was to become Swedish champion seven times in the following years, so that he reached the main round with only two defeats from ten games. In the quarter-finals he defeated the Australian Glen Wilkinson and in the semifinals the Englishman Chris Archer , so that he was in the final of the Amateur World Cup for the second time in a row. This time he lost 7:11 against the Indian Omprakesh Agrawal . In 1985 he won the second WPBSA Pro Ticket Series event with a 5-2 win over Robert Marshall , but he did not turn pro.

Private life

In addition to his work as a snooker player, he was a postman in the Rhondda Valley . In his everyday life, he always reserved a few hours to play snooker after his tour as a postman and a short sleep. He often played in the Pen-y-graig Labor Club , where he was also a member of the league team. With this he reached the CIU team final seven times , which the team won four times, most recently in 1990. In addition, he won the individual prize five times and played the highest break in tournament history with a 138 break. He played snooker at the local level well into the last years of his life and won the Welsh 40+ event in 1998.

Parsons was married and had two sons and a daughter. In late April 1999 he was diagnosed with leukemia and despite chemotherapy, his condition quickly deteriorated. He died on May 8, 1999 at the age of 63.

Honors

On May 12, 2007, a memorial tournament was held in his and Alwyn Lloyd 's honor in Parsons' home club , which in future will be held annually alternately in Pen-y-graig and Abertysswg , Lloyd's home.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ron Florax: Career Total Statistics For Terry Parsons - Professional Results. Cuetracker.net, accessed on December 23, 2018 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Trevor Baxter: Obituary: Terry Parsons. Independent , June 3, 1999, accessed December 23, 2018 .  
3. ^ ^{A b c} Ron Florax: Career Total Statistics For Terry Parsons - Non-professional Results. Cuetracker.net, accessed on December 23, 2018 .  
4. ↑ Snooker: Tribute Tourney. WalesOnline, April 26, 2007, accessed December 23, 2018 .