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JOE "Guzi" GRECH (Malta)

Date of Birth

9 July 1954

 

Home Town

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Club

147 Snooker Club

High Match Break

138 (1998 UK Championship) 141 (Malta event)

High Practice Break

147

Country Ranking

2004-5 Malta No 4

WSA Ranking Turned Pro 1988-2000. Highest Ranking 68 (1991)

Achievements

2005 WSA Malta Cup Wildcard Round

2004-5 Malta Ranking Event 2 runner up

2004-5 Malta Ranking Event 1 Winner

2004 Malta Championship Runner Up

2003 Malta Championship Quarter Final

2003 Lowenbrau 147 Club Event Winner

2003 Tivoli Ranking Event Semi Final

2000 Malta Champion

1999 Thailand Masters Round 5

1999 China International Round 5

1999 Embassy World Championship Round 7

1998 IBSF World Championship Semi Finalist

1996 Rothmans Malta Grand Prix Quarter Finalist

1989 Dubai Classic Quarter Final

1987 IBSF World Snooker Championship Runner Up

1987 IBSF World Billiards Champion

1985 IBSF World Snooker Championship Semi Finalist

1982 Teachers Whisky Invitation Snooker Winner

1980, 1981 Malta champion

Biography

Despite being a veteran now, at fifty, Grech still regularly reaches the latter stages of Maltese ranking events.

In the 2004 championship he finished runner up to Alex Borg, but made his mark on the event with back to back centuries, 105 and 125, in one match.

One of the best moment's of Grech's professional career came as long ago as the 1989 Dubai Desert Classic when he beat Tony Knowles and Gary Wilkinson, both Top 16 players at the time, before losing out 5-4 to Alex Higgins in the quarters.

Grech is one of the few cue sports all-rounders and has won the IBSF World Billiards title and been a finalist in the snooker.

 

 

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