Sydney Wilson

Sydney Wilson

Born (1990-04-06) 6 April 1990
Southend-on-Sea, England
Sport country  England
Professional 2015–
Highest ranking 97 (December 2015)
Current ranking 101 (as of 2 May 2016)
Career winnings £7,435[1]
Highest break 118 (2012 Q School – Event 2)[1]
Century breaks 2[1]
Best ranking finish Last 64 (2015 German Masters, 2015 UK Championship)

Sydney Wilson (born 6 April 1990 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex) is an English Snooker player.

Career

Wilson began playing snooker at the age of three with his father teaching him the basics of the game. He later took lessons from Vic Harris, a former professional player. As a teenager, he beat most of the best players in his class and won several junior tournaments.[2] At 15, he began playing in the Pontin's International Open Series. He participated for five seasons with his best finish being a second round defeat in 2009. Due to a lack of financial opportunities he had to sell his own snooker table and could not afford to practice full-time.[3] In 2011 he played in Q School for the first time, but could not get beyond the third round.[4] In the 2011/12 season he took part in seven of the twelve tournaments in the Players Tour Championship.[5]

The following year he won a match in the main rounds of a PTC for the first time with a 4–2 success over Gerard Greene in the first event in Gloucester. Wilson was knocked out 4–3 by Dave Harold in the second round. In Q School, he lost in the fourth round in the second and third events.[6] His high Q School Order of Merit placing gave him entry into many ranking event qualifiers for the 2013/2014 season, but he was unable to win a match.[7] Wilson made his debut at the venue stage of a ranking event at the 2014 Welsh Open and he led world number 11 Mark Allen 3–0 and made a break of 54 in the fourth frame. However, Allen responded by winning four successive frames to edge it 4–3, with Wilson stating afterwards that a kick in the fourth frame had ruined his chance of winning.[8] He came within two wins of securing a professional tour card in the first event of Q School, but lost 4–3 to Duane Jones.[7]

Wilson's only win during the 2014/15 season came at the 2015 German Masters when he defeated Anthony Hamilton 5–3, before losing by a reverse of this scoreline to Ryan Day.[9] In the second round of the first event of Q School he defeated ex-professional Marcus Campbell. Wilson won three more matches to reach the final round and beat Chen Zhe 4–1 to seal his professional status for the first time. He has a two-year tour card starting with the 2015/2016 season, with Wilson stating that his goal is to remain on tour.[10] He won his first match on tour by beating Oliver Brown 5–2 in the first round of the 2015 Australian Goldfields Open qualifiers, before losing 5–2 to Jack Lisowski.[11] At the UK Championship Wilson won a ranking event match at the venue stage for the first time in his career by seeing off Michael White, who at world number 15 was ranked 100 places higher than Wilson.[12] He lost 6–2 to Mark Joyce in the subsequent round.[13] In the German Masters qualifiers, Mike Dunn edged past Wilson 5–4 and by 86–79 points on the final black. Wilson defeated Gerard Greene 4–3 at the Welsh Open, but lost 4–1 to Matthew Selt in the second round.[11]

Wilson has practiced in Step Fields Club in Witham, where two-time World Championship runner-up Ali Carter plays.[14]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2011/
12 		2012/
13 		2013/
14		 2014/
15		 2015/
16
Ranking[15][nb 1] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 3]
Ranking tournaments
Australian Goldfields Open A A LQ LQ LQ
Shanghai Masters A A LQ LQ LQ
International Championship NH A A LQ LQ
UK Championship A A A A 2R
German Masters A A LQ A LQ
Welsh Open A A 1R 1R 2R
World Grand Prix A LQ A NR DNQ
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 4] DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
China Open A A LQ LQ LQ
World Championship A A LQ LQ LQ
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic A A LQ LQ NH
Indian Open Not Held LQ 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. 1 2 3 4 He was an amateur.
  3. ↑ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  4. ↑ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2011/2012–2012/2013)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Career-total Statistics for Sydney Wilson". CueTracker. 19 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  2. ↑ Sydney Wilson (9 August 2012). "Sydney Wilson snooker player – About". Blogspot. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Thought I would introduce myself....". Snooker Island. 12 February 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Sydney Wilson 2010/2011". Snooker.org. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Sydney Wilson 2011/2012". Snooker.org. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "Sydney Wilson 2012/2013". Snooker.org. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  7. 1 2 "Sydney Wilson 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  8. ↑ "Welsh Open: Mark Allen scrapes past amateur; Mark Selby and John Higgins hit form". Sky Sports. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  9. ↑ "Sydney Wilson 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  10. ↑ "Quartet Earn Tour Cards". World Snooker. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  11. 1 2 "Sydney Wilson 2015/2016". Snooker.org. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  12. ↑ "Sydney Wilson stuns seeded Michael White at the UK Snooker Championships". Basildon Canvey Southend Echo. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  13. ↑ "Selby Wins But Missed 147 Chance". World Snooker. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  14. ↑ James Colasanti (6 May 2014). "Wilson and Causton dream of World Snooker spot". Sport in Essex. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  15. ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.

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