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This week in years gone by.   (click for this week's Birthdays)

15 - 21 November

15 November 1998 – LUKE SIMMONDS MAKES IT A DOUBLE
In Guangzhou, China, Luke Simmonds beat Ryan Day 11-10 to add the IBSF World (Amateur) Championship to the World Under-21 title he had won two months earlier. He was only the third player, after Ken Doherty and Marco Fu, to win both titles in the same year.

15 November 2006 – MAFLIN WINS IBSF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Kurt Maflin
who now represents Norway, won the IBSF World Championship in Amman in Jordan. He beat England’s Daniel Ward 11-8 in the final a victory which qualified him to play on the professional tour in 2007/8.

 

15 November 2009 – THIRD RANKING TITLE FOR ROBERTSON
The Bahrain Championship, the first ranking event to be held in the Middle East for 14 years, was won by Neal Robertson. He claimed his third ranking title with a 9-7 victory over Matthew Stevens.


16 November 1990 – HIGH SPEED DRAGO!
In the last 64 of the Stormseal UK Championship at Preston Guild Hall, Tony Drago completed a 9-0 victory over Joe O’Boye in just 81 minutes – the fastest ever best-of-17 frame match.

16 November 2000 – FIRST VICTORY FOR SHAUN MURPHY
Shaun Murphy
beat Stuart Bingham 9-7 in the final of the Benson & Hedges Championship at the Willie Thorne Snooker Centre in Malvern to gain his first title as a professional and also to qualify for the Masters at Wembley.

16 November 2003 – TONS GALORE AS HENDRY TAKES FOURTH BRITISH OPEN TITLE
At the Brighton Centre, Stephen Hendry won the British Open for a record fourth time with a 9-6 victory over Ronnie O’Sullivan. The final included an unprecedented run of five successive century breaks, two from Hendry and three from O’Sullivan.


17 November 1987 – MAXIMUM MAN WILLIE DOES IT FOR REAL!
The man who claims to have made more maximum breaks, in practice, than anyone else, Willie Thorne compiled the one and only 147 he ever made in competition. It came against Tommy Murphy in the last 32 of the Tennents UK Championship at Preston Guild Hall. Sadly for Willie it was before the televised stage and he won just £5,000 in stead of the £50,000 bonus he would have had if it had come a round later.

17 November 2000 – GRAY HITS 50TH MAXIMUM!
David Gray
hit his first 147 break in the last 32 of the Travis Perkins UK Championship at the Barbican in York. This was the fiftieth maximum to have been made in professional competition.


19 November 1989 – KEN COMPLETES WORLD AMATEUR / JUNIOR DOUBLE
Ken Doherty
became the first player to win both the World Amateur and World Under-21 titles – and he did it in the same year. In Singapore he beat Jonathan Birch 11-2 to add the IBSF World Amateur Championship to the Under-21 title he a claimed in Reykjavik a couple of months previously.

19 November 1999 – PREECE IS YOUNGEST WORLD AMATEUR CHAMPION
At the age of 17 years and 147 days, Ian Preece of Wales became the youngest ever winner of the IBSF World Amateur Championship when he defeated David Lilley 11-8 in the final in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

19 November 2000 – SECOND MAXIMUM FOR DYSON
Nick Dyson
became only the seventh player to make more than one maximum break in professional competition. His latest came in the second round of the Liverpool Victoria UK Championship at Bournemouth against Stuart Bingham. His first had come in a UK Tour event in March 1999.


20 November 1983 - LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON!
In the last 32 of the Coral UK Championship at Preston Guild Hall, Geoff Foulds lost 9-1 to Steve Davis and later, on the same table, son Neal Foulds lost 9-4 to David Taylor. This was the only time that a father and son have both reached the final stages of a major snooker tournament.


20 November 1994 – FIRST MAXIMUM IN WORLD AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
In Johannesburg, Preecha Sae-Be made the first ever maximum break in the World Amateur Championship. It came in a group match against Tom Kollins of the USA.


21 November 1871 – COOK RETAINS BILLIARDS TITLE.
William Cook
successfully defended the English Billiards Championship, effectively the world championship, when he beat off a challenge from Joseph Bennett 1000-942.



If you know of any events that could feature in these columns, particularly those occurring in the summer months when little happens in the snooker world, then please let me know.

 

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This Week’s Birthdays

15 November
NIGEL BOND is 44.
Nigel is now in his 20th season as a pro and has done well to reclaim a place in the top 32 after a slump in form took him down to 40th. After only three seasons on the tour he was up to number nine in the world and he remained in the top sixteen for seven seasons reaching a best of 5th in 1996/7. His only ranking title was the 1996 British Open although he also won the Scottish Masters and the Malta Grand Prix but his finest hour was probably when he played Stephen Hendry in the final of the Embassy World Championship in 1995. He won the snooker Gold Medal in the 2009 World Games.
 
20 November
GEOFF FOULDS is 70.
Geoff, father of Neal and a former chairman of the WPBSA, was also a professional player in his own right. He played on the world ranking tour for ten seasons from 1981/2 to 1990/1 and had a best ranking of 50th.

MIKE DUNN is 38.
Mike joined the tour in 1991/2 and, apart from one season in 1997/8, he has been there ever since, a total of 16 seasons. His current ranking is a career best 38th
 




Best wishes to them all!

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