Jack Lisowski

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Jack Lisowski
Born (1991-06-25) 25 June 1991
Cheltenham, England
Sport country  England
Nickname Jackpot
Professional 2010–
Highest ranking 34 (June–July 2013)[1]
Current ranking 37 (as of 10 February 2014)
Career winnings UK£ 116,376[2]
Highest break 147 (2012 UK Championship Qualifying)
Century breaks 55[3]
Best ranking finish Quarter-finals (2013 China Open)

Jack Lisowski (born 25 June 1991) is an English professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2010, by finishing first in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings.[4]

Career

Amateur years

He was runner-up to Mitchell Mann in the 2007 Junior Pot Black.[5]

In the 2008/2009 season he was runner-up in the sixth event of International Open Series to Xiao Guodong, and finished 23rd in the rankings. In 2009 Lisowski was awarded the inaugural Paul Hunter Scholarship, which would allow him to practise with professional players. At the time he was suffering from cancer, and was in remission from Hodgkin's lymphoma.[6]

Overcoming his illness[7] Lisowski competed in the PIOS for the 2009/2010 season. He won the first and eighth event of the International Open Series and finished first in the rankings and so received a place on the 2010/2011 professional Main Tour.

2010/2011 season

In June 2010 Lisowski joined Romford-based snooker academy Grove Leisure.[8]

After a series of early exits from main tour events, he reached the final of Event 3 of the Players Tour Championship, winning six matches including a 4–3 win over Mark Selby in the semi-final, where he came back from 1–3 down. In the final he lost 0–4 to Tom Ford.

2011/2012 season

Lisowski had a very good season in the Players Tour Championship series of tournaments in the 2011/2012 season. He reached the quarter-finals of Event 6 and Event 9 and went one better in Event 5, where he was knocked out in the last 4 against compatriot, and eventual winner, Andrew Higginson. The results ensured he finished 24th in the Order of Merit and therefore claimed the final spot for the 2012 Finals.[9] He beat Barry Hawkins 4–3 to reach the last 16 of a ranking event for the first time in the Finals, before losing 1–4 to Neil Robertson.[10]

Lisowski also qualified for the Shanghai Masters with wins over David Grace, Mike Dunn and Marco Fu, before defeating amateur Rouzi Maimaiti in the wildcard round.[10] He played Jamie Cope in the round and was beaten 3–5.[11] He could only win one more match in his attempts to qualify for the remaining six ranking events and finished the season ranked world number 40.[10][12]

2012/2013 season

The 2012/2013 season was a breakthrough year for Lisowski as he qualified for five ranking tournaments, including the World Championship, and reached his second final as a professional.[13] The first tournament he reached was the Australian Goldfields Open by beating Dave Harold and he lost 2–5 to Mark Davis in the first round in Bendigo.[13] He couldn't qualify for the next two events, but then defeated Chen Zhe and Joe Perry to feature in the UK Championship for the first time. In his match against Chen, Lisowski made the first 147 in competitive play of his career.[14] In the first round of the event in York, Lisowski lost 2–6 to Stuart Bingham.[15] Lisowski beat Ian Burns and Jamie Burnett to qualify for the China Open and then saw off Zhou Yuelong to advance to the last 32. He played good friend Judd Trump and made a 131 break in 5–3 win,[16] before coming back from 2–4 down to triumph 5–4 against Mark Davis and reach his first ranking event quarter-final.[17] However, this time it was Lisowski who let a 4–2 lead slip as he lost 4–5 to Shaun Murphy, with Murphy stating that snooker had seen the future with Lisowski's performances during the week.[18] Lisowski played in nine minor-ranking Players Tour Championship events during the season and reached the final in the first one, by seeing off Trump in the quarter-finals and Mark Williams in the semis.[13] The final against Stephen Maguire went to a deciding frame with Lisowski missing a yellow off the spot, when requiring two further pots to leave his opponent needing snookers, and after a brief safety exchange Maguire potted the remaining colours to win the title.[19] In the other PTC events his best results were three last 16 defeats which helped cement his place in the Finals by finishing 13th on the Order of Merit.[20] There, he beat world number two Mark Selby 4–3 in the first round, before losing to Tom Ford in another deciding frame in the second round.[13] In World Championship Qualifying, he had comfortable 10–4 wins over James Wattana and Fergal O'Brien to reach the Crucible for the first time, where he played Barry Hawkins.[21] The experience and composure of Hawkins told as he took the match 10–3, with Lisowski citing the intimate nature of playing at the Crucible, which affected his concentration, as a factor in the one-sided scoreline.[22] He climbed five place in the rankings during the season to finish it world number 35 which is his highest position to date.[23]

2013/2014 season

In his opening match, Lisowski defeated Hammad Miah 5-1 to qualify for the 2013 Wuxi Classic in China where he will face Tian Pengfei in the first round.

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournaments 2010/
11		 2011/
12		 2012/
13		 2013/
14
Rankings[24][nb 1] UR[nb 2] 49 40 35
Ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic Non-Ranking LQ 2R
Australian Goldfields Open NH LQ 1R A
Shanghai Masters LQ 1R LQ LQ
Indian Open Not Held LQ
International Championship Not Held LQ 1R
UK Championship LQ LQ 1R 1R
German Masters 1R LQ LQ
Welsh Open 1R LQ LQ
World Open LQ LQ LQ
Players Tour Championship Finals 1R 2R 2R
China Open LQ LQ QF
World Championship LQ LQ 1R
Variant format tournaments
Shoot-Out A 1R 3R
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. ↑ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.

Tournament finals

Minor-ranking event finals: 2 (2 runner-up)

Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Runner-up 1. 2010 Players Tour Championship – Event 3 England Ford, TomTom Ford 0–4
Runner-up 2. 2012 Players Tour Championship – Event 1 Scotland Maguire, StephenStephen Maguire 3–4

References

  1. ↑ "Issued after the Wuxi Classic 2013" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Jack Lisowski Player Profile". Snooker Database. Retrieved 19 May 2013. 
  3. ↑ "Jack Lisowski Player Profile".  CueTracker – Snooker Database; Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "2009–10 PIOS Rankings". Global Snooker. Retrieved 6 July 2010. 
  5. ↑ "Pot Black, Junior Pot Black". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2010. 
  6. ↑ "Snooker scholarship to stardom for top potter". This Is Gloucestershire. 2009-04-28. Retrieved 2010-08-08. 
  7. ↑ "Jack Lisowski Q & A". Yahoo. 2009-08-10. Retrieved 2010-08-08. 
  8. ↑ "Jack Lisowski joins the Grove". Grove Leisure. 2010-06-01. Retrieved 2010-09-22. 
  9. ↑ "PTC Order of Merit after PTC12". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 29 December 2011. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Jack Lisowski 2011/2012". Snooker.org. Retrieved 12 May 2012. 
  11. ↑ "Shanghai Masters Results". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 May 2012. 
  12. ↑ "Official World Ranking List for the 2012/2013 Season". Retrieved 12 May 2012. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 "Jack Lisowski 2012/2013". Snooker.org. Retrieved 18 April 2013. 
  14. ↑ "This Is Gloucestershire". Retrieved 18 April 2013. 
  15. ↑ "UK Championship full results". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 April 2013. 
  16. ↑ "Sizzling Lisowski stuns Trump in China". ESPN (UK). Retrieved 18 April 2013. 
  17. ↑ "China Open: Jack Lisowski beats Mark Davis to reach last eight". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 April 2013. 
  18. ↑ "China Open: Shaun Murphy & Mark Selby into semi-finals". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 April 2013. 
  19. ↑ "Maguire Denies Lisowski To Take PTC Title". World Snooker. Retrieved 18 April 2013. 
  20. ↑ "Order of Merit 2012/2013". Snooker.org. Retrieved 18 April 2013. 
  21. ↑ "Betfair World Championship". Snooker.org. Retrieved 18 April 2013. 
  22. ↑ "Barry Potter Whacks Jack". World Snooker. Retrieved 23 April 2013. 
  23. ↑ "Official World Snooker Ranking List For The 2013/2014 Season". World Snooker. Retrieved 28 May 2013. 
  24. ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011. 

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