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Daily snooker player birthdays, deaths & anniversaries, plus historical finals, results & milestones. Unofficial fan account • Not affiliated with World Snooker
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Welcome to Fan Account • Snooker Anniversaries & History. @SnookerHistory
Daily player birthdays, deaths & anniversaries + historical finals and results (1976–present). Unofficial fan account • Not affiliated with World Snooker. Follow for daily snooker nostalgia!
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#OnThisDay in 2010.
Mark Williams 🏴 beat Stephen Maguire 🏴 4-0 to win the Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 - Event 1.🏆
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#OnThisDay in 1981.
Tony Meo 🏴 beat John Spencer 🏴 in winning the Winfield Australian Masters.🏆 It was 21 year old Meo's first professional title. The tournament was staged at Tattersalls Club, Sydney. 🇦🇺
Report https://t.co/Yi1gtAN2Sd
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Happy Birthday to Scottish former snooker professional Robert Stephen, 42 today.
On the pro tour during 2006/2007 and 2008/2009, Stephen reached the last 64 stage of three ranking tournaments. He reached a highest ranking of 82nd. In 2002, Stephen won the European U19 title.
Prior to turning professional, Andrew Norman won the English U-17 (1997) and U-21 (2001) titles. He now competes on the World Seniors Tour.
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Bio https://t.co/h03FiNBBXC
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Happy 46th birthday to English ex-snooker professional Andrew Norman.
Norman had three stints on the pro circuit between 2001 and 2015. He reached the last 16 of the Grand Prix in 2005 and 2006. Norman reached his highest ranking of 42 for 2007/2008.
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Scottish snooker player Eddie McLaughlin was born #OTD in 1952.
Turned pro 1981, reaching 54th in the rankings & last 32 of the 1984 Classic. Broke his back in a 1986 car crash, then tragically left in a coma after a 1989 incident with sadly no prospect of recovery.
#OnThisDay in 2020.
Stephen Maguire beat Mark Allen 10-6 to win the Coral Tour Championship. 🏆This was Maguire's first ranking title win in seven years. The event was staged at the Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes.
Tournament Report https://t.co/Pr0WU4ze2w
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Happy birthday to Chinese former snooker professional Niu Zhuang, 32 today.
A pro from 2017 to 2019, Zhuang's best performance in a ranking event was a run to the last 32 of the 2018 German Masters. He reached a highest ranking of 82nd.
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Happy 55th birthday to Grimsby ex-snooker professional Karl Broughton.
Turning professional in 1991, Broughton had a great run to the quarter-finals of the 1996 International Open. He would reach 41st in the world rankings for 1997-1998. Broughton's pro career ended in 2001.
#OTD in 2017.
The new professional snooker season got underway with Ryan Day 🏴 beating Stephen Maguire 🏴 5-2 in winning the Riga Masters. 🏆 This was the Welshman's first World Ranking title. Maguire's 119 (frame 5) was the highest break of the final.
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Prior to turning professional, Jack Lisowski won the 2010 English Amateur Snooker Championship, convincingly beating ex professional Leo Fernandez 9-2.
Bio https://t.co/xLQfDHfJYn
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Happy 35th birthday to Jack Lisowski.
A snooker professional since 2010, Lisowski claimed his first ranking title at last year's Northern Ireland Open. Currently ranked 17th, he has been as high as 10th.
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#OTD in 2016.
The first ranking final of the season ended with Neil Robertson 🇦🇺 defeating Michael Holt 🏴 5-2 at the Riga Masters. 🏆 Robertson recovered from 2-1 down, compiling the highest break (79) of the final in frame 5. The Arena Riga, Riga, Latvia 🇱🇻 hosted the event.
Happy 53rd birthday to Oxfordshire former snooker professional Justin Buckingham.
With his pro career spanning 1991 till 1998, Buckingham's best ranking tournament performance was winning five matches in reaching the last 64 of the 1995 World Championship.
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Happy 72nd birthday to Irish ex-snooker professional Tony Kearney. 🇮🇪
Irish Amateur Champion in 1981🏆, Kearney was a professional from 1984 to 1996. He would reach the last 32 of the 1987 Mercantile Classic and was ranked as high as 65th for the 1987-1988 season.
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#OnThisDay in 2013.
The first ranking tournament of the season saw Neil Robertson recover from 5-2 down to defeat John Higgins 10-7 in the final of the Wuxi Classic. Robertson also compiling the highest break (113) of the final in frame nine.
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Happy birthday to Welsh former snooker professional Ian Preece, 44 today.
Preece played on the pro circuit from 2003-2004, 2006 to 2010 and 2016 till 2018. He twice reached the last 32 of ranking tournaments • 2009 Welsh Open and the 2016 English Open.
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Ian Preece reached a highest professional ranking of 55th in 2008-2009. Prior to turning pro, he won the 1998 European U-19 Championship. The 1999 Welsh Amateur Championship, & the 1999 World Amateur Championship at 17 years and 147 days, he was the (then) youngest champion.
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