Tony Jones (snooker player)
Tony Jones ( born April 15, 1960) is a retired English snooker player.
Career
Tony Jones won the English Amateur Championship in 1983 and was subsequently pro. In the 1989/90 season to him at the Asian Open for the first time able to advance to the quarter- finals of a ranking tournament. In three other tournaments that season, he reached the second round. In the world rankings so he moved to No. 35.
The following season he won quite surprising the European Open. During the tournament, he defeated Alain Robidoux, Darren Morgan, Steve James, Dennis Taylor, Brady Gollan and finally in the final Mark Johnston - Allen with 9:7. At the end of the season he rose in the world rankings at No. 16
In the following years, however, its performance stagnated. The International Open 1993, he made it again to the quarter- finals, but in the world rankings, he was already 1994/95 season back out of the Top 32. Until the end of the 1990s he held between mid- on in the area around number 60 in the world. His last outstanding result at a tournament was reaching the quarter- finals of the Grand Prix 1996.
After the end of the 2003/04 season, he failed to qualify for the upcoming season tour of Snooker Main.
Achievements
Ranking Tournament Victories
- European Open - 1991
Other
- English Amateur Championship - 1983