Tony Meo

Tony Meo ( born October 4, 1959 in Tooting, London ) is a retired English snooker player.

Career

Tony Meo comes from an Italian family home, but decided at the age of 13 years to stay in England and not return with his parents to Italy. He attended the same school in south London as Jimmy White and scored with 17 as by then the youngest player a maximum break. After 1978, he won the national U-19 Championship, he was a year later professional snooker player.

When Snooker 1983 World Championship, he reached the quarter-finals for the first time, a year later he was the Lada Classic for the first time in the finals of a ranking tournament, which he narrowest of margins with 8:9 lost against Steve Davis. Together with Davis as a partner, he won four times between 1982 and 1986 the World Doubles Championship. In addition, he was part of the victorious English team at the World Team Classic 1983.

In 1988 he scored in the Matchroom League his only official maximum break as a professional.

After he had in the meantime fallen from number 10 in the Snooker world rankings ranked 31, 1989 he was again a very successful year when he won his only ranking tournament with the British Open and moved in with the World Cup 1989 semi-finals.

At these performances he was not able in the sequence; In 1991, he played for the last time at a World Cup finals. After the end of the 1996/97 season he ended his active career.

Achievements

Ranking Tournament Victories

• British Open - 1989

Invitation Tournament Win

• Australian Masters - 1981, 1985
• English Professional Championship - 1986, 1987
• Matchroom League International - 1990

Team Challenges

• World Doubles Championship - 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986
• World Team Classic - 1983

Other

• English U-19 Championship - 1978.