Sydney Wilson
Wilson at the 2013 Paul Hunter Classic
Born (1990-04-06) 6 April 1990 (age 33)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England
Sport country England
Professional2015–2017
Highest ranking80 (June 2016)[1]

Sydney Wilson (born 6 April 1990 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex) is an English former professional 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] He played in 2011 Q School 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 2013–14 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 the 2015 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, earning a two-year tour card starting with the 2015–16 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 opened the 2016–17 season with 11 straight defeats, before beating Dechawat Poomjaeng 4–2 at the Scottish Open. He was defeated 4–1 by Liang Wenbo in the second round. Wilson recorded a 10–6 victory over Kurt Maflin in the first round of World Championship qualifying, before losing 10–7 to Rory McLeod and was relegated from the tour after not getting past the third round of both Q School events.[14]

Wilson has practiced in Stepfield Snooker Club in Witham, where two-time World Championship runner-up Ali Carter plays.[15]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2011/
12 		2012/
13 		2013/
14 		2014/
15 		2015/
16 		2016/
17 		2019/
20 		2021/
22
Ranking[16][nb 1] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 3] 101 [nb 2] [nb 2]
Ranking tournaments
Championship League Non-Ranking Event RR
British Open Tournament Not Held A
Northern Ireland Open Tournament Not Held 1R A A
English Open Tournament Not Held 1R A A
UK Championship A A A A 2R 1R A A
Scottish Open NH MR Tournament Not Held 2R A A
World Grand Prix Tournament Not Held NR DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
Shoot-Out Non-Ranking Event 1R A A
German Masters A A LQ LQ LQ LQ A A
Players Championship[nb 4] DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
European Masters Tournament Not Held LQ A A
Welsh Open A A 1R 1R 2R 1R A A
Turkish Masters Tournament Not Held A
Gibraltar Open Tournament Not Held MR 1R A A
Tour Championship Tournament Not Held DNQ DNQ
World Championship A A LQ LQ LQ LQ WD A
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic NR A LQ LQ Tournament Not Held
Australian Goldfields Open A A LQ LQ LQ Tournament Not Held
Paul Hunter Classic Minor-Ranking Event 1R NR NH
Shanghai Masters A A LQ LQ LQ LQ NR NH
Indian Open Not Held LQ LQ NH LQ Not Held
China Open A A LQ LQ LQ LQ Not Held
Riga Masters[nb 5] Tournament Not Held Minor-Ranking LQ A NH
International Championship NH A A LQ LQ LQ A NH
China Championship Tournament Not Held NR A NH
World Open[nb 6] A A LQ Not Held LQ A 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. ^ a b c d e f 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 Finals (2011/2012–2015/2016)
  5. ^ The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)
  6. ^ The event was called the Haikou World Open (2011/2012–2013/2014)

References

  1. ^ "WORLD RANKINGS After 2016 Kaspersky Riga Masters". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.((cite web)): CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ Sydney Wilson (9 August 2012). "Sydney Wilson snooker player – About". Blogspot. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Thought I would introduce myself..." Snooker Island. 12 February 2012. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Sydney Wilson 2010/2011". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  5. ^ "Sydney Wilson 2011/2012". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 9 November 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  6. ^ "Sydney Wilson 2012/2013". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  7. ^ a b "Sydney Wilson 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 15 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  8. ^ "Welsh Open: Mark Allen scrapes past amateur; Mark Selby and John Higgins hit form". Sky Sports. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  9. ^ "Sydney Wilson 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 9 July 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  10. ^ "Quartet Earn Tour Cards". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  11. ^ a b "Sydney Wilson 2015/2016". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 31 March 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  12. ^ "Sydney Wilson stuns seeded Michael White at the UK Snooker Championships". Basildon Canvey Southend Echo. Archived from the original on 16 April 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  13. ^ "Selby Wins But Missed 147 Chance". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 20 April 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  14. ^ "Sydney Wilson 2016/2017". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  15. ^ James Colasanti (6 May 2014). "Wilson and Causton dream of World Snooker spot". Sport in Essex. Retrieved 19 May 2015.[permanent dead link]
  16. ^ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2011.

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