Patrick Barrie

Patrick Barrie is a British tiddlywinks player. He has won nine World Singles matches, most recently in October 2019, making him (as of July 2020) the current World Singles champion.[1] He has won seven World Pairs matches, and along with Harley Jones is the current champion (again as of July 2020).[1]

Barrie started playing tiddlywinks in 1984 as an undergraduate at Cambridge University,[2][3] where he is a senior lecturer in chemical engineering.[4] He has a long rivalry with American player Larry Kahn,[2][3] with the Los Angeles Times describing them as "the Nadal and Djokovic of their game".[5] The pair have played 11 World Singles matches, with Barrie winning three, and six World Pairs matches (with various partners) with three wins apiece.[1]

He has also won the English Tiddlywinks Association (ETwA) Singles (English national championship) ten times and the ETwA Pairs nine times.[1] His tiddlywinks exploits have seen him sponsored by a whisky distillery, with his image appearing on some of their bottles.[2][6]

References
  1. "Major Tiddlywinks Championships". www.etwa.org. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  2. "England's tiddlywinks grandmaster comes from behind to set himself up for unifying bout". inews.co.uk. 5 November 2018. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
  3. "How does it feel... To be a Tiddlywinks grandmaster". cityam.com. 23 April 2013. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013.
  4. "Dr Patrick Barrie | Fellows | Contact | Emmanuel College, Cambridge". www.emma.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  5. "They are the Nadal and Djokovic of their game, but that game is tiddlywinks". Los Angeles Times. 26 December 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  6. "The week in pictures". 7 April 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2020.


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