Neal Foulds
Neal Foulds ( born July 13, 1963 in Perivale, London ) is an English professional snooker player.
Career
Neal Foulds is the son of former snooker professionals and functionary Geoff Foulds. At age eleven, he began with the snooker and continued to develop until the British Under-19 champion. At 20 he was a professional and was able to immediately qualify for the World Cup tournament, where he made the quarter- finals. Already after the first season, he was among the top 32 of the snooker world rankings.
In the following three years he worked his way steadily upward and belonged afterwards to the top three snooker players in the world behind Steve Davis and Jimmy White. Twice during the Grand Prix and again at the World Championships, he reached the semi-finals at the UK Championship and the British Open, he reached the final and the BCE International, he won the first title of his career in a ranking tournament. It should be his only major tournament victory.
The following year, the big success came from, but he defended with a solid performance and the quarter-finals at the World Cup 's third place ranking. He also won the debut of the Dubai Masters, but what brought him no ranking points. He was also, along with Steve Davis and Jimmy White twice successfully for England in the World Cup team.
However, the next two years proved to be a difficult time with several Erstrundenniederlagen who threw him out of the top 16 before he could work up to 1992, again at position 5 is. In major tournaments he came to the last eight and at the Masters, he reached the semi-finals. For this he won the 1992 Pot Black Cup and the Scottish Masters as invitational tournaments.
Upon reaching 30 years of age, however, the highlight of his career was exceeded. In 1994 he reached the semi-finals of the Masters one last time a top result at a major tournament, and until 1997 he was able to keep still in the top 32. Then he stayed yet other seven year pro 2004, he could no longer qualify and ended his career.
After his playing days Neal Foulds moved to the side of the rapporteur and commented for the BBC top tournaments like the World Cup and the UK Championships. For other channels such as Sky Sports and Euro Sports he worked as a snooker commentator.
Swell
- Leaderboard rankings and major results 1984-1997