Ian McCulloch (snooker player)

Ian McCulloch ( born July 28, 1971 in Preston ) is an English snooker player.

Career

McCulloch reached at the 1999 Welsh Open for the first time the quarter-finals of a ranking tournament. In the same year he also qualified for the first time the finals of the World Snooker Championship.

McCulloch had his sporting breakthrough when in 2002 he reached the final of the British Open, he lost against Paul Hunter.

In his third World Championship in 2004, he reached the quarter-finals. A year later, he moved even the semi-finals of the World Cup. After this success, he advanced to the 2005/06 season in the rankings to No. 16. Under normal circumstances he would have been so set for all tournaments. However, the then reigning world champion Shaun Murphy took only position 21 and was placed under a special rule for tournaments behind the leader of the ranking automatically to position 2. So McCulloch had to participate in spite of its ranking placement in the final qualifying round for the tournaments of the main tour.

In 2008 he qualified for the fifth and final time for the World Championship, he reached the second round. At the end of the season 2011/12 he dropped out of the top 64 in the world rankings and was no longer on the main tour.

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