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This is a list of notable amateur and professional snooker players, past and present. Players currently on the World Snooker Tour are shown in bold text with a following †. A
Spencer took on professional status in February 1967, becoming the first UK player to do so since Rex Williams in 1951. [9] Spencer was encouraged to turn professional because of the income he could expect to earn from performing regular exhibition matches for the National Spastics Society at £14 a time (equivalent to £321 in 2023), and at Pontins holiday camps during the summer season for a ...
This is a list of professional snooker players ordered by the number of "ranking titles" they have won. A ranking title is a tournament that counts towards the snooker world rankings. World rankings were introduced in the 1976–77 season, initially based on the results from the previous three World Championships.
Edward Francis Charlton, AM (31 October 1929 – 7 November 2004) was an Australian professional snooker and English billiards player.* [2] He remains the only player to have been world championship runner-up in both snooker and billiards without winning either title.
The good attendances for the championship match led to John Player deciding to sponsor the 1969 World Snooker Championship as a knock-out format tournament, [11] using their "Players No. 6" brand. [12] The 1969 championship is regarded as the first of the modern snooker era, and was won by John Spencer, who defeated Gary Owen 37–24 in the final.
In a world of PR sports documentaries, Ronnie O’Sullivan proves he is the real thing. This evening’s schedule. Tuesday 28 November 2023 16:37, Harry Latham-Coyle. And Neil Robertson against ...
1977 in snooker (13 P) 1978 in snooker (16 P) 1979 in snooker (22 P) This page was last edited on 5 September 2020, at 14:13 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The UK Snooker Championship continues with both Judd Trump and Ding Junhui in action at the Barbican Centre in York as round of 16 action begins.. Trump, the 2011 champion, overcame illness to ...