Dave Harold

David "Dave" Harold ( born December 9, 1966 in Stoke -on-Trent, England; Nickname: The Stoke Potter) is an English snooker player.

Career and Achievements

As an amateur, he played under his real name David Harold. His professional career began in 1991, since he calls himself Dave Harold. Two years later he was able to record his first and only tournament victory on the Snooker Main Tour when he won the 1993 Asian Open in the final against Darren Morgan with 9:3. At this time he was 93 in the world rankings and thus became today in the world rankings on the lowest -placed winner of the tournament. His trademark is his very unusual Intermittently, when he waived the usual transient and without this immediately after the sighting of the target ball goes into shock.

1996 Harold reached the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship. In the following years, he established himself in the world rankings, reached in the 1996/1997 season the 11th place in the world rankings.

After an arm injury on New Year's Eve 2003, he fell to the 60th place back, but was able to work steadily upward in the following years and reached in October 2006 Provisional ranking of calculated after each tournament preliminary rankings, back the top 32 in the world. The Irish Masters 2005, he was beaten 3:6 in the quarterfinal Robert Milkins.

In 2008 he reached the final of the Northern Ireland Trophy, but was defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan with 3:9.

Harold lives in Stoke -on-Trent in Staffordshire. His highest ever break he played with 143 points at the Royal London Watches Grand Prix 2007.

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