Tommy Murphy

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Tommy Murphy
birthday 8th January 1962 (age 58)
nationality Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Northern Ireland
professional 1981 - 1994
Prize money £ 59,258
Highest break 121 ( Classic 1990 , Q)
Century Breaks 12
World rankings
Highest WRL place 42 ( 1988/89 )
Best results
Ranked tournaments 2 × round of 16
Other professional tournaments 2 × semi-finals
Amateur tournaments 3 × national (junior) champion

Tommy Murphy (born January 8, 1962 ) is a former Northern Irish snooker player who was a professional player for 13 seasons between 1981 and 1994. During this time he reached the second round of a ranking tournament twice and the semi-finals of a non-ranking tournament twice and ranked 42nd in the world.

Career

Murphy first drew attention to himself when he won the British U19 Championship in 1980 . In 1981 he won the Northern Irish Snooker Championship against Billy Mills and the All-Ireland Amateur Championship against Tony Kearney , but lost to Dean Reynolds in the final of the British U19 Championship . Murphy then became a professional player.

First professional years

Murphy's first professional season was the season 1981/82 , in which Murphy lost his opening game in all major tournaments and only won two games at the Irish Professional Championship before losing 6-0 to Dennis Taylor in the semifinals . Even though he was able to win a game in both the UK Championship and the World Snooker Championship next season and then eliminated in the final qualifying round, he remained unset in the world rankings after both seasons.

During the 1983/84 season , however, Murphy won half of his games, moving into the round of 32 at both the Professional Players Tournament and the UK Championship . This enabled him to place himself on the world rankings; he was now ranked 55th. In the following season he was eliminated apart from a few opening defeats twice in a round of the last 64 as well as at the UK Championship in the round of 32 and the non-ranking tournament Irish Professional Championship in the quarter-finals. Therefore, he deteriorated at the end of the season on the world rankings to rank 58.

Establishment in the top 64

With the 1985/86 season Murphy increased his form continuously. During this season he was eliminated twice in a round of the last 64 and just missed the World Cup main round with a 7-10 loss to Eugene Hughes in the final qualifying round at the World Snooker Championship . His best result in a ranking tournament he achieved at the start of the season at the Matchroom Trophy , when he also reached the round of 32 with a victory over his Irish colleague Eugene Hughes and lost there to his compatriot Alex Higgins . He finally ended the season with a loss in the semi-finals of the Irish Professional Championship to Higgins' rival Dennis Taylor . On the world rankings he was able to improve marginally to 57th place.

During the 1986/87 season , Murphy was eliminated almost constantly at the latest and at the same time mostly in the round of the last 64; only in the World Cup qualification (round of the last 48 or final qualifying round) and at the British Open (round of 16) he was defeated by an opponent in a later round. This led to an improvement in the world rankings to 44th place. The next season was very similar, the highlights of which, in addition to a quarter-finals at the Irish Professional Championship, were reaching the round of 32 of the UK Championship and the round of 16 at the Classic . This allowed Murphy to improve again on the world rankings; with rank 42 he now occupied the best place of his career.

Subsequently, however, Murphy's form deteriorated again. After he didn’t get past the round of 64 in a single ranking tournament during the 1988/89 season and could only win a few games, the general trend of the following season came to the same result. Only at the British Open , thanks to a victory over Cliff Thorburn , he made it into the round of 32, in which he was defeated by Steve Newbury . Participation in the round of 16 of the Dutch Open was without any influence on the world rankings , as this tournament was held at an amateur level. This series of failure was clearly noticeable on the world rankings even without this tournament, when it fell from 57th to 75th.

Last professional years

Due to the fact that he had to play more qualifying games due to his poorer world ranking position and that his form deteriorated again, Murphy was almost always eliminated in the 1990/91 season in the round of the last 96 at the latest. Only in the Dubai Classic did he survive this round and thus move into the main round, but was immediately defeated by Willie Thorne . As a result, he lost another 15 places in the world rankings and was now ranked 90th. But after losing every game in the next season , he fell to 150th place.

Even in the following two seasons Murphy did not manage to retract a single win, even if he reached the decider twice in the 1992/93 season . He played his last professional game as part of the qualification for the Snooker World Championship in 1994 and lost it 3: 5 to an unknown and insignificant Englishman named Andrew Essilfie . He then ended his professional career after thirteen years as a professional, falling to 228th place in the world.

In the following years Murphy took part in several national tournaments without much success. In addition, Murphy played in the team Darcy McGees D within the Dublin Billiards and Snooker League .

successes

output year competition Final opponent Result
Amateur tournaments
winner 1980 British U19 Championship EnglandEngland Keith Hayward 3: 1
winner 1981 Northern Irish Snooker Championship Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Billy Mills 4: 3
Second 1981 British U19 Championship EnglandEngland Dean Reynolds 1: 3
winner 1981 All-Ireland Amateur Championship IrelandIreland Tony Kearney 5: 2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ron Florax: Career Total Statistics For Tommy Murphy - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Ron Florax: Ranking History For Tommy Murphy. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1979-1980 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1980-1981 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1981-1982 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1982-1983 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1983-1984 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1984-1985 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1985-1986 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1986-1987 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1987-1988 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1988-1989 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1989-1990 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1989-1990 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1990-1991 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1991-1992 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1992-1993 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1993-1994 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 1996-1997 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Ron Florax: Tommy Murphy - Season 2018-2019 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Tommy Murphy. Dublin Billiards and Snooker League, accessed July 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Murphy, Tommy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1962