Andrew Pagett
Andrew Pagett ( born April 25, 1982 in Newport ) is a Welsh snooker player.
Career
Pagett, whose father was a successful Poolbilliardspieler, began at age 14 with snooker. Although he had been in the final of the Snooker EBSA European Championship in 2003, he did not make it in the following years to qualify for the Snooker Main Tour. Only in 2008 he was one of the starting places on the professional tour, after he had become in the ranking of the Welsh Association number one. But after a year he resigned only four Erstrundensiegen in the tournament qualifications from again.
In the following year, it did not succeed, to play back one of the qualifying tournaments on the main tour and Pagett played therefore already with the idea of abandoning the professional snooker. However, he remained at the regional level, the number one and was additionally Welsh amateur champion, which is why he got in the 2010/11 season another chance in the pros.
This time he was successful and used mainly the newly created Players Tour Championship, a series of minor ranking tournaments to collect by a quarter and a second round participation world ranking points. The other ranking tournaments he was again unsuccessful, only calculated at the most important tournament, the World Snooker Championship, he managed the big surprise. Through victory, inter alia, Nigel Bond and Andrew Higginson, he qualified for the final round at the Crucible Theatre. There he met in the first round to Jamie Cope, against whom he defeated with 7:10.
Achievements
- Finalist of the European Championship 2003
- Welsh Amateur Champion 2010