Warren King

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Warren King
birthday 1st April 1955 (age 65)
nationality AustraliaAustralia Australia
professional 1982 - 1997
Prize money £ 146,110
Highest break 130 ( Australian Professional Championship 1985 )
Century Breaks 12
World rankings
Highest WRL place 35 ( 1985/86 )
Best results
Ranked tournaments 1 × final ( Classic 1990 )
Other professional tournaments 2 × winners ( Australian Professional Championship )
Amateur tournaments 2 × Australian champion

Warren King (born April 1, 1955 ) is a former Australian snooker player who spent 17 years as a professional player between 1982 and 1997 after winning the Australian Snooker Championship twice . During this time, in addition to world number 35, he reached the final of the Classic 1990 ranking tournament .

Career

Beginnings as an amateur

The King, who comes from New South Wales , first attracted attention when he won the Australian Snooker Championship in 1980 against James Giannaros . In the same year he took part in the amateur world championship taking place in Australia , but retired despite victories over Joe O'Boye and Eddie McLaughlin and by means of defeats to Ron Atkins and Paul Mifsud in the group stage. With an 8: 6 win over John Campbell , he was finally able to defend his title in the Australian championship in 1981. In 1982 he finally reached the final of the Australian Championship for the third time in a row, but this time lost 3: 8 to James Giannaros. He also took part in the amateur world championship again, but retired from the group stage despite six out of eight possible wins. In the same year, King became a professional snooker player.

First professional years

During King's first professional season, the 1982/83 season , he only took part in a single tournament, the World Snooker Championship , or in the qualification for the same, where he won his first professional game with a 10: 6 win over his compatriot Ian Anderson and finally defeated the Englishman Mike Hallett in the final qualifying round . As a result, he remained unset on the world rankings.

For the next season, however, King increased his willingness to participate, but lost his opening game in both the Australian Masters invitation tournament and the Classic ranking tournament , with the second round in each case in two other ranking tournaments, the International Open and the Professional Players Tournament , and thus in the latter also reached the first main round. In addition, he was able to reach the semi-final group at the International Masters , a non-ranking tournament, and at the end of the season he entered the main round of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theater for the first time with victories over the Englishmen Tony Jones , Mike Watterson and Dave Martin , where he won 3: 10 against eventual tournament winner Steve Davis lost. As a result, at the end of the season he was listed for the first time in the world snooker rankings with 48th place .

Promotion to the top 40

Also in the 1984/85 season King could not win his opening games in some of the tournaments, which was the case, among other things, at the International Open and in qualifying for the World Snooker Championship . On the other hand, he had already reached the final at the start of the season at the Australian Professional Championship with wins over John Campbell and James Giannaros and there lost 3:10 to Eddie Charlton , whereas in terms of the ranking tournaments he had two cases in the round of 64 and one Another case eliminated in the round of 32. Only in the Classic did he survive those rounds and the last sixteen with victories over Steve Duggan , Dean Reynolds , John Spencer and Jimmy White , before King had to admit defeat to Joe Johnson in the quarter-finals . On the world rankings, this meant an improvement to King 35, which was his best world ranking for the rest of his career.

The following season , however, was a little less successful , at the beginning of which King was eliminated in the semifinals of the Australian Professional Championship and was unable to win his opening game in three tournaments throughout the season. He was also eliminated from the UK Championship and Classic in the round of 64 and the Matchroom Trophy in the round of 32, while in qualifying for the Snooker World Championship he reached the final qualifying round with wins over Dessie Sheehan and Colin Roscoe in this with 7:10 Dean Reynolds had to admit defeat. As a result, King fell six places in the world rankings to 41st.

During the 1986/87 season , however, King only lost his opening game at the Australian Masters , so that, in contrast, he was able to win just that in all other tournaments. After being present at the Australian Professional Championship already Lou Condo and Eddie Charlton defeated, he could using a 10: 3 victory over John Campbell first win a professional tournament. With regard to the ranking tournaments, King was eliminated twice in the round of 64 and the remaining four tournaments in the round of 32, where he had qualified for the main round of the World Snooker Championship and lost there to Steve Davis . On the world rankings, the season improved by two places to 39th place.

Up and down within the top 60

Also at the beginning of the 1987/88 season , King lost his opening game in three ranking tournaments at the Australian Masters, as well as in the further course of the season , and he also did not get out of the second round for him in two other ranking tournaments. In contrast, he was able to successfully defend his title at the Australian Professional Championship with a 10: 7 win over Eddie Charlton and thus win the tournament for the second time. In addition, he was able to reach the final of the World Cup together with Eddie Charlton and John Campbell , in which the Australian team had to admit defeat to the English team with Steve Davis , Jimmy White and Neal Foulds . At the end of the season he was also able to qualify for the main round of the World Snooker Championship with wins over Paul Watchorn , Martin Clark and John Spencer , where he failed with a 4:10 to John Parrott . Nevertheless, he lost five places on the world rankings and was ranked 44th.

In the next season , King could no longer build on the successes of previous seasons and lost a total of five opening games and was eliminated in six other tournaments in the second round for him, for example with a 4-8 defeat against Robby Foldvari at the Australian Professional Championship could not defend his title at this tournament. Overall, he came in only one tournament throughout the season on the second round for him also, and he at the Canadian Masters , among others, Neal Foulds defeated and only in the second round Mike Hallett was beaten. In the world rankings this meant a loss of eleven places for King, so that he went into the next season in 55th place.

Even if he also lost five opening games in the 1989/90 season and he recorded a second round in three other tournaments, King's form improved significantly. He reached the round of 32 at the Asian Open , the Grand Prix and the Dubai Classic . In contrast, he defeated several players in the Classic with Mario Morra , Terry Griffiths , Eddie Charlton, John Virgo , Steve Newbury and Silvino Francisco, among others World class, so that he reached the final of a world ranking tournament for the only time in his career. In the final he met another outsider, Steve James , who won the game 6:10 from the Australian's perspective. King was the last Australian in a semi-final of a ranking tournament for 14 years and the last Australian in a corresponding final for 16 years, until Quinten Hann reached the semifinals at the 2004 Irish Masters and Neil Robertson reached the finals at the 2006 Grand Prix . At least at this point in time, the Australian King was living in Manchester , and his wife Leanne was pregnant at the same time. On the world rankings, he was able to make up for the loss of the last two seasons and place himself again on rank 39.

Crash to rank 70

But already in the 1990/91 season King's form had deteriorated again when he lost three opening games in five tournaments and did not get beyond the second round. It was only towards the end of the season that King's performance improved a little when he was able to defeat both Barry Pinches and Steve James at the British Open before losing to Dean Reynolds in the round of 32 . Finally he managed to qualify for the main round of the Snooker World Championship again with three games won , but where he had to admit defeat directly to Stephen Hendry . On the world rankings he was able to hold on to his 39th place.

In the course of the following season , King finally survived the second round in only one of the eleven tournaments, even if he only lost his opening game in four cases. In the Dubai Classic , however, he surprisingly defeated Stephen Hendry alongside Oliver King before losing to Peter Francisco . This deteriorated form resulted in a fall to 67th place in the world rankings.

This meant for the 1992/93 season that King now had to beat through several qualifying rounds, in which he usually did not survive the round of the last 128. Only at the Dubai Classic did he reach the round of 64 with a victory over Jason Prince and the round of 32 at the British Open with victories over Bob Chaperon and Tony Jones , before he beat Welsh Doug Mountjoy and Darren Morgan respectively had to give up. Nevertheless, he lost another three places on the world rankings.

Last professional years

In the 1993/94 season King could not win the entire first half of the season, so he lost his opening game in a total of five tournaments throughout the season. Only at the Welsh Open at the beginning of the second half of the season was he able to win an opening game for the first time with a 5-0 victory over Mick Fisher , but was eliminated as in two other tournaments in the subsequent round of the last 128. Only at the Thailand Open was he able to survive the first two rounds with victories over Jamie Burnett and Nick Pearce before losing to Les Dodd in this tournament too . As a result, he lost another 44 places on the world rankings and fell for the first time ever out of the first hundred places and was subsequently placed in 114th place.

For King, this meant that his professional career was as good as over. In the 1994/95 season he only took part in the qualification for the World Snooker Championship and was defeated by Tai Pichit 0:10 before his last professional game in the 1995/96 season with a 4-7 defeat against Chris Small at the Australian Open Championship denied. In the meantime, the world rankings fell from 217th to 496th place, so that he did not play any more professional games and ended his professional career at the end of the 1996/97 season after fifteen years.

Further life

In 1996 King took part again in the Australian Snooker Championship , but lost his opening game with 1: 3 against Paul Balzer. Two years later he managed a 4-2 win over Tom Lucas before he had to admit defeat to Shawn Budd in the decider in the round of 16 . In 2017, King was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the local New South Wales Association together with the late Warren Simpson , Eddie Charlton and Glen Wilkinson .

successes

output year competition Final opponent Result
Amateur tournaments
winner 1980 Australian Snooker Championship AustraliaAustralia James Giannaros unknown
winner 1981 Australian Snooker Championship AustraliaAustralia John Campbell 8: 6
Second 1982 Australian Snooker Championship AustraliaAustralia James Giannaros 3: 8
Professional tournaments
Second 1984 Australian Professional Championship AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 3:10
winner 1986 Australian Professional Championship AustraliaAustralia John Campbell 10: 3
winner 1987 Australian Professional Championship AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 10: 7
Second 1987 World Cup
(with Eddie Charlton John Campbell )AustraliaAustralia 
AustraliaAustralia 		 EnglandEngland Steve Davis Jimmy White Neal Foulds
EnglandEngland 
EnglandEngland  		7: 9
Second 1990 Classic EnglandEngland Steve James 6:10

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Jamie Watkins: Global Snooker Countries - Australia. Global Snooker Center, 2004, archived from the original on January 19, 2007 ; accessed on December 13, 2019 .
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  5. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1982-1983 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1982-1983 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Ron Florax: Ranking History For Warren King. CueTracker.net, accessed December 14, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1983-1984 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 14, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1984-1985 - Professional Results. CueTracker., Accessed on December 16, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1985-1986 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1986-1987 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ a b Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1987-1988 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 19, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Chris Turner: World Cup / World Team Classic / Nations Cup - Team Events. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, 2011, archived from the original on August 1, 2013 ; accessed on December 20, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1988-1989 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 19, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1989-1990 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 19, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Doherty bids for Irish Masters success. The Irish Times , March 27, 2004, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Jamie Copes with pressure. Eurosport , October 28, 2006, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  18. ^ Snooker exits for four top players. The Herald , January 3, 1990, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1990-1991 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 19, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1991-1992 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 19, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1992-1993 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 19, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1993-1994 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1994-1995 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1995-1996 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1996-1997 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Ron Florax: Warren King - Season 1997-1998 - Non-professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed December 20, 2019 .
  27. ^ Andrew Parkinson: Billiards and Snooker Association of NSW hall of fame honor for Les Mangelsdorf. The Leader , August 3, 2017, accessed December 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME King, Warren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1955