Stuart Bingham

Stuart Bingham ( born May 21, 1976 in Basildon ) is an English snooker player.

Career

His first major successes celebrated Bingham in 1996 by winning the IBSF Amateur Championship and the British Amateur Championship. On the main tour at first he could not hold himself until he consolidated in 1999 with the quarter-finals of the Welsh Open its position. The third event in the UK Tour in 1999, he played his first maximum break. In the World Snooker Championship in 2000 he defeated Stephen Hendry in the first round and moved into the second round.

Solid performance he showed in the season 2005/06. He reached the quarter- finals of the Grand Prix and at the UK Championship. He also failed to qualify for the Masters, where he was in the qualifying round another maximum break succeeded. He was thus only the eighth player, who scored a second break of 147 points at a professional tournament.

In the season 2006/07 was less well, he missed again qualifying for the World Cup. The 2007/2008 season was, however, fairly constant, Bingham attended all seven partial ranking tournaments and only lost once his opening match. In the 2008 Snooker World Cup, he made ​​it to the knockout round.

At the Australian Goldfields Open 2011 he reached after 16 years as a professional for the first time the semi-finals of a ranking tournament. There he won against Shaun Murphy and met in the finals to Mark Williams, the world number one ranking. Bingham could make a 5:8 residue with four wins in a row still frame in a 9:8 victory and celebrated his first major tournament victory.

In the final of the Wuxi Classic 2012 Bingham succeeded in the match against Ricky Walden the third maximum break of his career, yet he lost the game with 4:10. In the absence of some professionals in 2012, he won two of the three Asian PTC tournaments, so that he stood for the first time in the top 10 in the world rankings. In February 2013, resulted in the final of the Welsh Open against Stephen Maguire 7-5 and even had a promising position on the 8:5, but the game still lost with 8:9.

In March 2014 he won the Open Dongguan his third title in a tournament of the PTC series. In the final he defeated Liang Wenbo 4-1 to the Chinese.

Achievements

Ranking Tournaments

  • Australian Goldfields Open - 2011

Minor - ranking tournaments

  • Asian Players Tour Championship - Event 1-2012
  • Asian Players Tour Championship - Event 3-2012
  • Dongguan Open 2014

Invitation Tournaments

  • Masters Qualifying Event - 2005, 2006
  • Premier League Snooker - 2012

Other

Swell

752306
de