Joe O'Connor (snooker player)

Joe O'Connor (born 8 November 1995) is a professional English snooker player from Leicester.

Career

A pool champion as a junior he has faced Neil Robertson and Mark Selby at the UK Championship and has qualified for the main draw at the Wuxi Classic.[1][2][3]

He won four events on the 2017–18 English amateur tour.[4]

Ahead of the 2018–19 season, he defeated Brandon Sargeant 4–1 and then Oliver Brown 4–0 to secure a two-year professional tour card for the first time at the 2018 EBSA Play-Offs at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.[5]

In June 2018, he beat Andrew Norman 10–3 to become the English Amateur Champion before turning professional.

On 28 November 2018 O'Connor defeated world number 12 Ryan Day 6–2 in the first round at the 2018 UK Championship.[6]

In February 2019 O'Connor defeated top 10 players Kyren Wilson, Ding Junhui and John Higgins en route to his first ranking event semi-final at the Welsh Open,[7] eventually losing 2–6 to Stuart Bingham.

Tournament	2013/ 14	2014/ 15	2015/ 16	2016/ 17	2017/ 18	2018/ 19	2019/ 20
Ranking[8][nb 1]	[nb 2]	[nb 2]	[nb 2]	[nb 2]	[nb 2]	[nb 3]	68
Ranking tournaments
Riga Masters[nb 4]	NH	MR		A	A	2R	WD
International Championship	A	LQ	LQ	A	A	LQ	LQ
China Championship	Not Held			NR	A	LQ	1R
English Open	Not Held			A	LQ	1R	2R
World Open[nb 5]	A	Not Held		A	A	LQ	LQ
Northern Ireland Open	Not Held			A	A	1R	2R
UK Championship	A	1R	1R	A	A	3R	1R
Scottish Open	Not Held			A	A	1R	3R
European Masters	Not Held			A	A	LQ	LQ
German Masters	A	LQ	LQ	A	A	LQ	LQ
World Grand Prix	NH	NR	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Welsh Open	A	1R	1R	A	A	SF	1R
Shoot-Out	Non-Ranking Event			A	A	1R	1R
Players Championship[nb 6]	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Gibraltar Open	Not Held		MR	1R	1R	1R	1R
Tour Championship	Tournament Not Held					DNQ	DNQ
World Championship	A	LQ	LQ	A	A	LQ	LQ
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic	A	1R	Tournament Not Held
Australian Goldfields Open	A	LQ	LQ	Tournament Not Held
Shanghai Masters	A	LQ	LQ	A	A	NR
Paul Hunter Classic	Minor-Ranking			A	3R	3R	NR
Indian Open	A	LQ	NH	A	A	LQ	NH
China Open	A	1R	A	A	A	2R	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 Held				means an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Event				means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Event				means an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Event				means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.

It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
He was an amateur.
New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)
The event was called the Haikou World Open (2013/2014)
The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2011/2012–2012/2013) and the Players Championship Grand Final (2013/2014—2015/2016)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Winner	1.	2018	English Amateur Championship	Andrew Norman	10–3

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