Barry Hawkins

Barry Hawkins ( born April 23, 1979) is an English snooker player from Beckenham, Kent.

Career

Barry Hawkins, snooker professional since 1996, continuously worked in the Snooker world rankings to the top. In the season 2004/ 05 he reached the Top 32 early in the following season he moved thanks to its semi-final feed at the Grand Prix as well as in the Welsh Open and his qualification for the World Cup in the Top 16 before.

In the season 2006/ 07 Hawkins had initially a bad start, until he fought his Open semi-finals in China. He defeated Ken Doherty there in a thrilling quarter-final 5-4, before retiring in an exciting and curious game against Jamie Cope with 5:6. This was followed by moderately successful seasons, so that Hawkins fell out out of the Top 16.

On 6 August 2010, he scored the third event of the Players Tour Championship his first official maximum break. With the Snooker Shoot -Out 2012 he won an invitational tournament. At the start of the 2012/13 season he won his first ranking tournament with the Australian Goldfields Open 2012. He defeated Peter Ebdon in the final with 9:3. Another semi-finals he could in 2013 achieved the German Masters before the season's climax - the World Cup - after victories over Jack Lisowski, Mark Selby, Ding Junhui and Ricky Walden to reach the final, where he lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan at 12:18.

In 2014 he won his second ranking tournament with the grand finals of the Players Tour Championship.

Trivia

Noteworthy is the game of Hawkins that he converts a left-handed in the use of extension aids on the right hand, which he also facilitates the focusing because his right eye is his objective eye.

Hawkins holds the auxiliary queue in the left ...

And ... the queue in the right hand

Achievements

  • Australian Goldfields Open - 2012
  • Players Tour Championship Grand Finals - 2014
  • Masters Qualifying Event - 2007
  • Snooker Shoot - Out - 2012
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