Matthew Couch

Matthew Couch
Sport country  England
Nickname The Couchernator
Professional 1992–
Highest ranking 47 (1998/99)
Current ranking 85
Highest <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">break</dfn> 141 (2007 PowerHouse UK Championship, qualifying 2002)
Best ranking finish Quarter-final 1998 UK Championship

Matthew Couch (born 30 June 1974) is an English professional snooker player from Scunthorpe. A professional since 1992, Couch has had little success in ranking events, although he reached the quarter-finals of the UK Championship in 1998,[1] and his highest break is 141 from 2002. He returned to the Main Tour for the 2008/2009 season, and survived due to a fine run in the World Championship qualifiers, including a 10–3 victory over former champion John Parrott.[2] In October 2010, Couch had one of his best results to date, reaching the final of the 2010 Brugge Open, where he lost 4-2 against former World Champion Shaun Murphy.[3]

Couch is also an official World Snooker coach.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Finn fights back to win on black". The Independent. 7 January 1999. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/snooker-finn-fights-back-to-win-on-black-1045560.html. Retrieved 3 February 2010. 
  2. ^ "Couch ends Parrott's Crucible bid". BBC News. 4 March 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/snooker/7924884.stm. Retrieved 3 February 2010. 
  3. ^ "Glory for Murphy in Belgium". Yahoo Sport. 3 October 2010. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/04102010/58/glory-murphy-belgium.html. Retrieved 8 October 2010. 
  4. ^ "WWW Snooker: China International 1999 (March)". http://www.snooker.org/trn/9899/ci99_res.shtml. Retrieved 3 February 2010. 

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