Jimmy Robertson (snooker player)

Jimmy Robertson (born 3 May 1986) is an English professional snooker player.

Jimmy Robertson
Paul Hunter Classic 2018
Born (1986-05-03) 3 May 1986
Bexhill-on-Sea, England
Sport country England
NicknameJR, J-Rob
Professional2002/2003, 2007/2008, 2009–
Highest ranking21 (March 2019)
Current ranking 24 (as of 27 June 2020)
Career winnings£482,512
Highest break142:
2013 China Open
2017 World Open
Century breaks143
Tournament wins
Ranking1

In October 2018, Robertson won his first ranking title at the 2018 European Masters, defeating Joe Perry 9–6 in the final, despite never previously having gone beyond the quarter-finals of a ranking event.[1]

Career

He was on the main tour for 2002–03 where he was the youngest player on the tour. He qualified for the main tour again in 2007–08, by becoming the number One Ranked English Amateur, through winning the EASB (English Governing Body) pro-Ticket Tour Rankings.[2]

Robertson also won the EASB Pro-Ticket tour for a second time in April 2009, to finish as England's Number one Amateur for the second time, which guaranteed him a place on the World Snookers main Professional tour for the third time for the 2009/10 season. He also added the English Amateur Championships to his portfolio of victories, by beating David Craggs 9–8.[3]

His third return to the professional main tour ranks in 2009/10, saw him rise up the ranks, to number 63 in the world. He got off to a terrific start in the first event, the Shanghai Masters, where he won his first three qualifiers, and then faced former world champion Graeme Dott. Despite taking a 4–1 lead, Robertson lost 4–5.

In the 2010/11, Robertson continued to rise up the rankings. He also qualified for the main draw of a ranking event for the first time, at the 2011 World Snooker Championship. He defeated Xiao Guodong, Tony Drago, and former world champion Ken Doherty to qualify for his Crucible debut. He won the first frame of his first round match against Mark Selby only to lose the match 10–1.

2011/2012 season

Robertson qualified for one ranking event in the 2011–12 season, the World Open, thanks to wins over Andrew Norman, Ken Doherty and Rory McLeod, before seeing off amateur Zhou Yuelong in the wildcard round at the event in Haikou, China.[4] In the first round of the event proper he played Mark Allen and was beaten 1–5, with the Northern Irishman later going on to win the tournament.[5] Robertson reached the semi-finals of Event 7 of the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship series, where he lost 0–4 to Matthew Stevens. He played in 11 out of 12 of these events, also picking up a last 16 finish in Event 4 to be placed 31st on the PTC Order of Merit, just outside the top 24 who made the Finals.[6] Robertson finished the season ranked world number 55, inside the top 64 who automatically retained their places for the 2012–13 season.[7]

2012/2013 season

Robertson qualified for two ranking events during the 2012/2013 season.[8] The first of these was the Shanghai Masters by beating Tian Pengfei, Jack Lisowski and Anthony Hamilton, but he was defeated 4–5 by Jin Long in the wildcard round in Shanghai.[9] His second appearance at a ranking event was at the China Open by seeing off Robbie Williams and Joe Perry in qualifying and this time came through the wildcard round with a 5–1 defeat of Wang Yuchen, compiling his highest competitive break of 142 in the process[10][8] He faced Neil Robertson in the last 32 and was whitewashed 0–5.[11] Robertson had a consistent season in the ten Players Tour Championship events, with his best result being a last 16 loss to Andrew Higginson in the Scottish Open, to finish 45th on the PTC Order of Merit.[12] Robertson's season ended when he was beaten 3–10 by Liang Wenbo in the third round of World Championship Qualifying, to be placed world number 52 in the rankings.[13][14]

2013/2014 season

He began the 2013–14 season by qualifying for the Wuxi Classic and whitewashed Graeme Dott 5–0 in the first round, before losing 5–4 to Scott Donaldson in the last 32.[15][16] Robertson lost in the last 64 of four other ranking events during the season.[17] He had a very good season in the European Tour events as he reached the quarter-finals of the Bulgarian Open where he was beaten 4–2 by Neil Robertson.[18] Robertson had a very eventful tournament at the Bluebell Wood Open as Stuart Bingham made a 72 break in the deciding frame of their second round match, before Robertson cleared the table with a 73 break to win. In the last 16 he came back from 3–0 against Vinnie Calabrese to triumph 4–3 and reach another quarter-final, where Ding Junhui defeated him 4–1.[17] Robertson finished 20th on the Order of Merit which saw him qualify for the Finals for the first time in his career, but he lost 4–2 to John Higgins in the opening round.[19][20]

2014/2015 season
Jimmy Robertson at the 2015 German Masters

Robertson played at the venue stage of eight ranking tournaments this year, the most he has reached in any one season. However, he was unable to win past the last 32 in any of them.[21] He had another good season in the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship events, losing in the semi-finals of the Asian Tour's Haining City Open 4–3 to Oliver Lines which saw him finish eighth on the Order of Merit.[22] His other semi-final came on the European Tour at the Gdynia Open where he was whitewashed 4–0 by Mark Williams. Robertson was ranked 15th on their Order of Merit.[23] He qualified for his second World Championship by edging Xiao Guodong 10–9 on the final pink.[24] Robertson made a 106 break to level his first round tie with Marco Fu at 5–5, but would go on to lose 10–6.[25] His ranking of 41st in the world was the highest Robertson has finished a season at that point in his career.[26]

2015/2016 season

At the Haining Open, Robertson reached the semi-finals by knocking out Xiao Guodong and Thepchaiya Un-Nooh from the fourth round stage, but he lost 4–2 to Ding Junhui. He reached the last 16 of a ranking event for the first time in his career by beating Darryl Hill 6–2 and Barry Hawkins 6–4 at the International Championship and then lost 6–3 to Marco Fu.[27] Robertson saw off Michael Wild 4–3 and Michael Holt 4–1 in reaching the third round of the Welsh Open, where he was thrashed 4–0 by Ronnie O'Sullivan.[28] He lost 5–1 to Judd Trump in the second round of the China Open and 10–2 to Alan McManus in the last round of World Championship qualifying.[27] Robertson's end of season ranking of 34 is the highest he has ever finished a year in his career.[29]

2016/2017 season

Robertson reached the last 16 of a ranking event for the second time by beating Dechawat Poomjaeng 4–0 and Martin O'Donnell 4–3 at the Riga Masters and was defeated 4–1 by John Astley. He also recorded the event's high break of 138. Robertson was thrashed 5–0 by Shaun Murphy in the second round of the World Open after he had eliminated Wang Yuchen 5–1 in the opener. He won through to the third round of both the UK Championship and Welsh Open, but failed to pick up a frame in losses to Oliver Lines and Scott Donaldson respectively.[30] Robertson defeated Cao Yupeng 10–8, Oliver Lines 10–4 and Rod Lawler 10–6 to qualify for the World Championship and played Mark Allen in the opening round.[31] In a close match he was edged out 10–8.[32]

Performance and rankings timeline
Tournament 2002/
03		 2003/
04		 2004/
05		 2007/
08		 2009/
10		 2010/
11		 2011/
12		 2012/
13		 2013/
14		 2014/
15		 2015/
16		 2016/
17		 2017/
18		 2018/
19		 2019/
20
Ranking[33][nb 1] [nb 2] [nb 3] [nb 3] [nb 2] [nb 2] 63 53 55 52 54 41 34 38 34 24
Ranking tournaments
Riga Masters[nb 4] Tournament Not Held MR 3R WD LQ LQ
International Championship Tournament Not Held LQ LQ 1R 3R 1R 2R 1R 2R
China Championship Tournament Not Held NR 1R LQ LQ
English Open Tournament Not Held 1R 3R 2R 2R
World Open[nb 5] Tournament Not Held LQ 1R LQ LQ Not Held 2R 3R LQ 2R
Northern Ireland Open Tournament Not Held 2R 3R 2R 2R
UK Championship LQ A A LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ 2R 2R 2R 3R 3R 2R 2R
Scottish Open[nb 6] LQ A Tournament Not Held MR Not Held 1R 2R 3R 4R
European Masters Tournament Not Held LQ LQ W LQ
German Masters Tournament Not Held LQ LQ LQ 1R 1R 1R LQ QF 1R LQ
World Grand Prix Tournament Not Held NR DNQ DNQ 1R 1R DNQ
Welsh Open LQ A A LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ 2R 2R 3R 3R 1R 3R 3R
Shoot-Out Tournament Not Held Non-Ranking Event 3R 1R 2R 1R
Players Championship[nb 7] Tournament Not Held DNQ DNQ DNQ 1R 1R 1R DNQ DNQ 1R DNQ
Gibraltar Open Tournament Not Held MR 2R 1R 2R QF
Tour Championship Tournament Not Held DNQ DNQ
World Championship LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ 1R LQ LQ LQ 1R LQ 1R 1R LQ LQ
Non-ranking tournaments
Haining Open Tournament Not Held MR 1R A 3R 3R
Champion of Champions Tournament Not Held A A A A A 1R A
The Masters LQ A A LQ LQ A A A A A A A A A A
Championship League Not Held A A A A A A A A A RR RR RR
Variant format tournaments
Six-red World Championship Tournament Not Held A A NH A A A A A A RR A
Former ranking tournaments
British Open LQ A A Tournament Not Held
Irish Masters LQ A A Tournament Not Held
Malta Cup[nb 8] LQ A A NR Tournament Not Held
Northern Ireland Trophy Not Held LQ Tournament Not Held
Wuxi Classic[nb 9] Tournament Not Held Non-ranking LQ 2R LQ Tournament Not Held
Australian Goldfields Open Tournament Not Held LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ Not Held
Shanghai Masters Not Held LQ LQ LQ LQ WR LQ 1R LQ LQ 2R Non-Rank.
Paul Hunter Classic[nb 10] Not Held Pro-am Event Minor-Ranking Event 1R 1R 4R NR
Indian Open Tournament Not Held LQ LQ NH 1R 1R 1R NH
China Open Not Held A LQ LQ LQ LQ 1R 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R LQ NH
Performance Table Legend
LQ lost in the qualifying draw #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)		 QF lost in the quarter-finals
SF lost in the semi-finals F lost in the final W won the tournament
DNQ did not qualify for the tournament A did not participate in the tournament WD withdrew from the tournament
NH / Not Heldmeans an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
  1. From the 2010/2011 season it shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  3. He was not on the Main Tour.
  4. The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)
  5. The event was called the Haikou World Open (2011/2012–2013/2014)
  6. The event was called the Players Championship (2003/2004)
  7. The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2012/2013)
  8. The event was called the European Open (2002/2003–2003/2004)
  9. The event was called the Jiangsu Classic (2009/2010)
  10. The event was called the Grand Prix Fürth (2004/2005)

Career finals

Ranking finals: 1 (1 title)
Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Winner 1. 2018 European Masters Joe Perry 9–6

Amateur finals: 1 (1 title)
Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Winner 1. 2009 English Amateur Championship David Craggs 9–8

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