Date of Birth

11 May 1959

Home Town

Leeds

Club

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High Match Break

147

High Practice Break

147

Country Ranking

WSA No 152 (1992/3).

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Achievements

2005 European Team Championship - England Seniors

2004 IBSF World Seniors Championship Quarter Final

2004 Pontins Autumn Seniors Champion

2004 European Seniors Champion

2003-4 EASB Tour Event 7 Winner

2002 Pontins Seniors Champion

2000 Leeds City Champion

1992 B&H Championship Round Three

1991-2 Grand Prix Round 3

1991-2 Dubai Classic Round 4

1991-2 Thailand Open Round 4

1991-2 Mercantile Credit Classic Round 4

1991-2 Regal Welsh Round 4

1991 CIU Snooker Championship Semi Finalist

1991 English Amateur Championship (North) Semi Final

1990 Pontins Open Quarter Final

1989-90 WSA Pro Ticket Qualifier Quarter Final

1988-9 WSA Pro Ticket Qualifier No 2 Final

1988 English Amateur Championship (North) Quarter Final

1984 British Pairs Championship Runner Up

Alan started playing snooker at the tender age of six on a full size table. He entered his first tournaments when he was eleven and collected his first win aged 13 and his first century break went on the scoreboard when he was fifteen. A few years down the line he's now amassed more than 400 tournament centuries and twelve maximum 147 breaks.

At eighteen Alan was selected to represent the snooker hotbed of Leeds and he became a Yorkshire player when he was 23, graduating to the England team at the age of 31.

He graced the same England team, who won the home Internationals, as Peter Ebdon and Anthony Hamilton and after a sixteen year gap, he's won a place on the England team for the 2004 Home Internationals.

Alan turned professional, along with hundreds of others in 1991, but his fledging pro career had hardly got started when he suffered an accident at work, and chopped two fingers off his left hand.

That put paid to his snooker aspirations and he didn't touch a cue for the next eight years.

But his fiance Vivienne, also a player, encouraged him back onto the table and he immediately picked up where he left off, winning the Pontins Seniors title.

In 2003-4 he competed on the EASB Senior Tour, winning one event and earning his selection to the England team.