Robert Milkins
Robert Milkins ( born March 6, 1976 in Bristol ) is an English snooker player.
Career
Milkins, who lives in Gloucester, was pro in 1995. For the first time in the Top 64 of the snooker world rankings he stood at the end of the 2000/01 season. His greatest achievements so far included forays into the knockout stages at the Malta Grand Prix, at the British Open and the Grand Prix 2000.
In 2002 he qualified for the first time for the Snooker World Championship in Sheffield. He also won his opening match against Fergal O'Brien 10:8, but then lost in the second round with 2:13 pretty clearly against Ronnie O'Sullivan. In the following three years, he qualified for the Snooker World Cup, however, different in each case in the first round. Place 21 In the 2003 /04 season was his first highest world ranking position.
His best performance at a world ranking tournament, he presented at the Irish Masters in 2005 when he was only eliminated in the semifinals against Matthew Stevens. At the Grand Prix 2006 in Aberdeen, he was next to Ronnie O'Sullivan is the only player to have won all five group games. In the second round he lost to eventual finalists Jamie Cope. In qualifying for the World Snooker Championship in 2006 he managed a maximum break.
In the Bahrain Championship 2008 he made it to the quarter-finals. In 2009 he won the third event of the Pro Challenge Series, but for which there was no world ranking points. He made it to the finals of the Invitational Tournament Snooker Shoot -Out in 2011, in which each match consists of only one frame; he defeated Nigel Bond with 24:58. In the second half of the 2000s, however, drew him from personal problems from snooker, so that he only ranked at 70 place in the rankings. When he had received alcohol and gambling addiction under control again, he got back on in earlier regions.
Milkins ' highlights in the 2011/12 season were the Shanghai Masters 2011 where he reached the round of sixteen, and the Haikou World Open 2012, where he made it to the semi-finals and there lost against Stephen Lee, after being in the tournament previously held John Higgins and Stephen Maguire had conquered. In qualifying for the World Snooker Championship 2012 he succeeded his second maximum break. This means that more than one maximum break he became the 15th player in professional tournaments.