Steven Hallworth

Steven Hallworth
Born (1995-12-01) 1 December 1995
Skellingthorpe, England
Sport country  England
Professional 2014–2016
Highest ranking 89 (June–July 2015)[1]
Career winnings £5,666[2]
Highest break 114 (2014 Australian Goldfields Open Qualifying)
Century breaks 2[2]
Best ranking finish Last 32 (2016 German Masters)

Steven Hallworth (born 1 December 1995) is a former English professional snooker player. He is currently an amateur having lost his tour card in 2016. He is a practice partner of Stuart Carrington.[3]

Career

Junior

Hallworth started playing snooker aged 10 after trying pool on a family holiday.[4] He then found success in junior and amateur levels and was given the opportunity to play future World Champion Mark Selby aged 12 in 2009, after winning that years Under-17 Lincoln and District Billiards and Snooker Association crown.[4][5] He was also one 8 finalists in the 2010 Rileys Future Stars competition ran by Ronnie O'Sullivan, but lost out to Joel Walker.[4]

Amateur

Hallworth then progressed on to Players Tour Championship events in 2011 and Q School in 2013, but it wasn't until the 2013/2014 when Hallworth started to progress to the main rounds of PTC events, a 4–3 defeat to Kurt Maflin in the Paul Hunter Classic[6][4] and a 4–0 loss to former World Champion Mark Williams in the Antwerp Open.[7] It was also Hallworth's televised debut.[4][8] Hallworth's performances in the EBSA Amateur Cup Events were enough to qualify him for the six-man play-off event, with three players winning two-year professional tour cards on the World Snooker Tour, with a win in the Antwerp event.[4] Hallworth beat Martin Ball 4–1 in the first round, before beating Mitchell Travis 4–3 in the final round to earn place on the tour the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons.[4][9][10]

Professional

Hallworth failed to qualify for the opening two ranking events in the 2014/2015 season, but did secure his first win as a professional, beating Zak Surety 5–4 in the first qualifying round of the Australian Goldfields Open.[11] All 128 players on the snooker tour automatically play in the first round of the UK Championship and in Hallworth's debut at the venue stage of a ranking event he lost 6–1 to Mark Williams. In the Welsh Open first round he took Shaun Murphy to a deciding frame but lost it to be edged out 4–3.[12] Hallworth led reigning Indian Open champion Michael White 4–0 in the opening round of World Championship qualifying, before losing seven frames in a row and went on to be defeated 10–8.[12] He ended his first season on tour as the world number 116.[13]

A run of 10 consecutive defeats from June 2015 to December was ended when Hallworth overcame Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5–4 in the German Masters qualifiers.[14] He then beat Andy Hicks 5–4 on the final black to play in a ranking event outside of the United Kingdom for the first time, but was whitewashed 5–0 by world number one Mark Selby.[5][15] Hallworth dropped off the tour at the end of the season and failed to advance through Q School.[16]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2011/
12 		2012/
13 		2013/
14		 2014/
15		 2015/
16
Ranking[17][nb 1] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 3] UR
Ranking tournaments
Australian Goldfields Open A A A LQ LQ
Shanghai Masters A A A LQ LQ
International Championship NH A A LQ LQ
UK Championship A A A 1R LQ
German Masters A A A LQ 1R
Welsh Open A A A 1R 1R
Indian Open Not Held A LQ NH
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 4] DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
China Open A A A LQ LQ
World Championship A A A LQ LQ
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.
  1. ↑ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. 1 2 3 He was an amateur.
  3. ↑ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  4. ↑ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2011/2012–2012/2013)

References

  1. ↑ "World Rankings after the Shanghai Masters 2014" (PDF). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Career-total Statistics for Steven Hallworth – Professional". CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Steven Hallworth Q&A". World Snooker. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Steven Hallworth". Pro Snooker Blog. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Lincoln snooker star Steven Hallworth to meet world number one Mark Selby in German Masters". Lincolnshire Echo. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "European Tour Event Four (2013)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "European Tour Event Seven (2013)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "Steven Hallworth". World Snooker. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  9. ↑ "EBSA Qualifying Tour Play-offs (2014)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  10. ↑ "Glover, Hallworth And Surety Earn Cards". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  11. ↑ "Australian Goldfields Open Qualifiers (2014)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  12. 1 2 "Steven Hallworth 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  13. ↑ "World Rankings After 2015 World Championship". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 7 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  14. ↑ "Steven Hallworth 2015/2016". Snooker.org. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  15. ↑ "Mark Selby and Judd Trump enjoy huge wins at German Masters". Eurosport. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  16. ↑ "Q School Order of Merit". World Snooker. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  17. ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.


Steven appeared in a local history book in 2008 with Mark Selby. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stokesley-Scene-Collection-Peter-Hallworth/dp/1873257899

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