Fraser Patrick

Fraser Patrick
Born 8 November 1985
Glasgow, Scotland
Sport country  Scotland
Professional 2002–2005, 2007/08, 2013–
Highest ranking 75 (December 2014 – April 2015)[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Current ranking 78 (as of 6 April 2015)
Career winnings £35,791[9]
Highest break 139 (2014 UK Championship)
Century breaks 9[9]
Best ranking finish Last 32 (2013 German Masters, 2014 UK Championship)

Fraser Patrick (born 8 November 1985) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Glasgow.

Career

Patrick started his professional career in 2002 by playing Challenge Tour, where he spent three seasons without success. In 2007 Patrick earned the Scottish nomination to make his Main Tour debut. Aside from Grand Prix, where he won four matches at the round-robin qualifying stage and finished third in his group, he was to struggle for wins during his debut season and was relegated from the tour.

With the introduction of Q School, Patrick came agonisingly close to regaining his tour place, twice losing his final match both in 2011 and 2012.[10][11] Nevertheless thanks to his high Q School ranking Patrick was able to compete in all the major ranking tournaments of the 2012/13 season as an amateur.[12] He enjoyed his best ever performance at the 2013 German Masters, where he beat Michael White and Martin Gould to qualify to the venue stages and was leading Ali Carter 3–1 before eventually losing 5–3. He also recorded an impressive 10–6 win against Luca Brecel at the World Championship qualifiers.[13] Patrick was to end the season on a high note, as in the final round of Q School Event 3 he edged out Ashley Carty 4–3 to regain his place on the main tour.[14]

Patrick managed to win just three matches during the 2013/2014 season, all of them in the minor-ranking European Tour events, to end up ranked world number 119.[15][16]

His 2014/2015 season was much better as he started it by beating Jimmy White 5–2 to qualify for the 2014 Wuxi Classic. In Patrick's debut at a Chinese ranking event he lost 5–3 to Sam Baird. He whitewashed Stuart Bingham 4–0 at the minor-ranking Paul Hunter Classic and then defeated Matthew Stevens 4–3 and Jamie Jones 4–1 to reach the last 16, where Rod Lawler ended his run 4–0.[17] Patrick won his first ever match at the venue stage of a ranking event by seeing off Jamie Burnett 6–4 at the UK Championship. He then knocked out world number 22 Ryan Day 6–4, during which he made a 139 break which went on to be the third highest of the event.[18] In his second last 32 appearance at a ranking event he lost 6–3 to Judd Trump.[19] Patrick qualified for the Indian Open, but lost 4–2 to Jamie Cope in the first round.[17] Patrick could not get into the top 64 in the world rankings, but by finishing 40th on the European Order of Merit he has earned himself a new two-year tour place.[20]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2002/
03		 2003/
04		 2004/
05		 2007/
08 		2012/
13 		2013/
14		 2014/
15
Ranking[21][nb 1] UR[nb 2][nb 3] UR[nb 3] UR[nb 3] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 4] UR[nb 2] 119
Ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic Not Held LQ LQ 1R
Australian Goldfields Open Not Held LQ A LQ
Shanghai Masters Not Held LQ LQ LQ LQ
International Championship Not Held LQ LQ LQ
UK Championship A A A LQ LQ 1R 3R
German Masters Not Held 1R LQ LQ
Welsh Open A A A LQ A 1R 1R
Indian Open Not Held LQ 1R
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 5] Not Held DNQ DNQ DNQ
China Open Not Held A LQ LQ LQ LQ
World Championship LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ
Non-ranking tournaments
The Masters LQ A A LQ A A A
Varient format tournaments
Shoot-Out Not Held A A 2R
Former ranking tournaments
Northern Ireland Trophy Not Held LQ Not Held
World Open[nb 6] A A A LQ 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. ↑ From the 2010/2011 season it shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 New players don't have a ranking.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 He was not on the Main Tour.
  4. ↑ He was an amateur.
  5. ↑ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2012/2013)
  6. ↑ The event was called the LG Cup (2002/03–2003/2004) and the Grand Prix (2004/2005–2007/2008)

References

  1. ↑ "World Rankings after the Coral UK Championship 2014" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "World Rankings after the Kreativ Dental Lisbon Open 2014 (ET5)" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "World Rankings after the Xuzhou Open 2015 (AT3)" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "World Rankings after the German Masters 2015" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "World Rankings after the BetVictor Welsh Open 2015" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "World Rankings after the Kreativ Dental Gdynia Open 2015 (ET6)" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 6 March 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "World Rankings after the Indian Open 2015" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 16 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "World Rankings after the Players Championship 2015" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Career-total Statistics for Fraser Patrick – Professional". CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  10. ↑ "Fraser Patrick 2010/2011". Snooker.org. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  11. ↑ "Fraser Patrick 2011/2012". Snooker.org. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  12. ↑ "Patrick Ready To Dodge A Bullet". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 5 April 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  13. ↑ "Fraser Patrick 2012/2013". Snooker.org. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  14. ↑ "Wonderful Wakelin Earns Tour Place". World Snooker. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  15. ↑ "Fraser Patrick 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  16. ↑ "World Snooker Rankings After the 2014 World Championship" (PDF). World Snooker. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Fraser Patrick 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  18. ↑ "Snooker: Higgins gets lucky break but Scot slates table conditions in York". The Herald. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  19. ↑ "Judd Trump cruises into the last 16 of the UK Championships after Fraser Patrick win". Daily Mail. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  20. ↑ "European Order of Merit 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  21. ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.

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