Oliver Lines

Oliver Lines
Born (1995-06-16) 16 June 1995
Seacroft, Leeds, England[1]
Sport country  England
Professional 2014–
Highest ranking 61 (May 2016–present)
Current ranking 61 (as of 2 May 2016)
Career winnings £43,510[2]
Highest break 139 (2016 World Championship Qualifiers)
Century breaks 10[2]
Best ranking finish Last 32 (2015 Players Championship Grand Final, 2015 International Championship)

Oliver Lines (born 16 June 1995) is an English professional snooker player. He practises at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds.[3] He is the son of fellow professional snooker player Peter Lines.[1]

Career

Amateur

Lines switched sports from football to snooker at aged 14.[1] His progression continued by entering into the Players Tour Championship events in 2011,[4] but made little impact in the 2011/2012 season.[4] 2012/2013 saw major improvement[4] and a notable 4–3 over Joe Perry in 2012 UKPTC 3,[1][4] he also entered Q School for the first time in May 2013 in the hope of qualifying on the main but failed to do after securing four wins in the three events.[4] Despite not qualifying for the main tour, Lines' performances in Q School were enough to earn him a top up place in the qualifying round of the 2013 Australian Goldfields Open, his first senior ranking event, he won in the opening round beating fellow Leeds-based player David Grace 5–4, but suffered a 5–4 reverse in the second round last 96 stage to Zhang Anda of China.[5][6] For the rest of the season, Lines continued enter into PTC and amateur events, with his most notable result being a 4–2 over professional Scott Donaldson in the 2013 Ruhr Open.[7][8]

Professional

In 2014, Lines won a place on the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons after beating Josh Boileau 6–1 in the final of the 2014 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships.[9][10]

2014/2015

His first match as a professional was a successful one, beating Dave Harold 5–4 in the qualifying stages of the Wuxi Classic,[11] but he lost 5–1 to amateur Oliver Brown at the venue stage.[12] He had a run to the last 16 stage of the opening Asian PTC event of the season in the Yixing Open, but failed to qualify for the Australian Goldfields Open and Shanghai Masters.[13] In qualifying for the International Championship Lines beat world champion and world number one Mark Selby 6–4 from 4–0 down at the mid-session interval.[14] He continued to impress at the Haining Open by reaching his first professional semi-final after dispatching Ryan Day 4–2 with breaks of 120 and 113.[15] He then edged out Jimmy Robertson 4–3, but was whitewashed 4–0 in the final by Stuart Bingham.[16] He came through a wildcard match at the International, but lost 6–3 to Rod Lawler in the first round.[13] Lines' Asian final helped him finish fifth on their Order of Merit to make his debut in the Grand Final, where he was eliminated 4–1 by Matthew Selt in the opening round.[17] His first season as a professional concluded with a 10–7 defeat against Mark Davis in the second round of World Championship qualifying.[13] He finished his first season as a professional ranked world number 78.[18]

2015/2016

Lines signed up with Django Fung who manages players such as Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump and Lines hoped it would help him further his career.[19] A 4–2 win over Ali Carter saw Lines reach the last 16 of the Riga Open, but he lost 4–0 to Liang Wenbo. He qualified for the International Championship by beating Gary Wilson 6–3 and then won a match at a ranking event for the first time in his career by eliminating Noppon Saengkham 6–4, before losing by a reversal of this scoreline to David Gilbert.[20] He made it through to the second round of the UK Championship with a 6–2 victory over Cao Yupeng, but was then whitewashed 6–0 by world number one Mark Selby.[21] A second last 16 showing in the European Tour events came at the Gibraltar Open and was ended by Alfie Burden, but Lines finished 35th on the Order of Merit.[22]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2013/
14		 2014/
15		 2015/
16		 2016/
17
Ranking[23][nb 1] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 3] 78 61
Ranking tournaments
Australian Goldfields Open LQ LQ LQ
Shanghai Masters A LQ LQ
International Championship A 1R 2R
UK Championship A 1R 2R
German Masters A LQ LQ
Welsh Open A 1R 1R
World Grand Prix[nb 4] A NR DNQ
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 5] DNQ 1R DNQ
China Open A LQ LQ
World Championship A LQ LQ
Variant format tournaments
Shoot-Out A A 1R
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic A 1R NH
Indian Open A LQ NH
Performance Table Legend
LQ lost in the qualifying draw #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)		 QF lost in the quarter-finals
SF lost in the semi-finals F lost in the final W won the tournament
DNQ did not qualify for the tournament A did not participate in the tournament WD withdrew from the tournament
NH / Not Held means an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Event means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
  1. ↑ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. ↑ He was an amateur.
  3. ↑ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  4. ↑ The event was called the Haikou World Open (2013/2014)
  5. ↑ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2011/2012–2012/2013)

Career finals

Minor-ranking event finals: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Runner-up 2014 Haining Open England Stuart Bingham 0–4

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Snooker: Leeds starlet eyes family affair on Tour". Yorkshire Evening Post. 20 October 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Career-total Statistics for Oliver Lines – Professional". CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Oliver Lines Q&A". World Snooker. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Oliver Lines". Pro Snooker Blog. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Australian Goldfields Open 2013 qualifiers results". World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Australian Goldfields Open Qualifiers (2013)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "Ruhr Open (ET5) Draw & Results". World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 6 October 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "European Tour Event Five (2013)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  9. ↑ "European Snooker Championships U21 – Bucharest / Romania 2014 – Knockout results". European Billiards & Snooker Association. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  10. ↑ "2014/15 List of Tour Players". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  11. ↑ "Wuxi Classic Qualifiers (2014)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "Sports Lottery Cup Wuxi Classic (2014)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  13. 1 2 3 "Oliver Lines 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  14. ↑ "Selby Falls Behind Enemy Lines". World Snooker. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  15. ↑ "Lines into Semis in Haining". World Snooker. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  16. ↑ "Bingham Storms To Haining Title". World Snooker. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  17. ↑ "Asian Order of Merit 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  18. ↑ "World Rankings After 2015 World Championship". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  19. ↑ "Snooker star Lines refuses to watch dad play in UK Championship". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  20. ↑ "Oliver Lines 2015/2016". Snooker.org. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  21. ↑ "UK Championship: Mark Selby through with second whitewash". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  22. ↑ "European Order of Merit 2015/2016". Snooker.org. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  23. ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.

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