| Alex Davies | |
| Birth Date: | 27 July 1987 |
| Birth Place: | Holland-on-Sea, Essex, England |
| Professional: | 2007/2008, 2013–2015 |
| High Ranking: | 74 (September–November 2014)[1] [2] [3] |
Alex Davies (born 27 July 1987) is an English former professional snooker player from Holland-on-Sea in Essex.[4] He is the youngest person ever to win the English Amateur Championship, in 2003.[5] Davies began his professional career by playing Challenge Tour in 2003, at the time the second-level professional tour.[6] Davies was on the WPBSA Main Tour for the 2007–08 season, but dropped off.[7] In May 2013, he returned to the main tour by winning five matches at the first event of the 2013 Q School concluding with a 4–1 win over Mitchell Travis to earn a place on the tour for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 season.[8] [9]
Davies made a dream start to the season as in his first match he defeated world number four Shaun Murphy 5–1 to qualify for the 2013 Wuxi Classic in China where he lost 5–2 to Joel Walker in the first round.[10] [11] He also qualified for the Indian Open, International Championship and World Open, but lost in the first round of each.[12] He finished his first year on the main snooker tour ranked world number 96.[13]
Davies recorded wins over Mitchell Mann, Peter Lines and Anthony McGill in the qualifying rounds of the Shanghai Masters, but was then beaten 5–2 by Liang Wenbo in the final round. He lost 6–4 to Aditya Mehta and 4–0 to Mark Selby in the opening round of the UK Championship and Welsh Open. Davies defeated Tom Ford 5–3 to reach the China Open, but was thrashed 5–0 by Zhao Xintong in the wildcard round.[14] He could not pick up any wins on the European Tour until the last two events where a pair of last 32 exits saw him finish 72nd on the Order of Merit.[15] Davies dropped off the tour at the end of the season as, at 76th in the world rankings, he is outside the top 64.[16] Davies entered 2015 Q School in a bid to regain his place and came within two matches of doing so in the first event, but lost 4–1 to Leo Fernandez. In the second event, Davies was eliminated 4–1 by Duane Jones in the opening round.[14]
Davies again entered Q School, but only won two matches across the two events to fall short of gaining a tour card.[17] In the second event of 2017 Q School he stood one win away from regaining a spot back on the tour, but was beaten 4–2 by Duane Jones.[18]
| Tournament | 2003/ 04 | 2004/ 05 | 2010/ 11 | 2013/ 14 | 2014/ 15 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking[19] [20] | [21] | [22] | 96 | ||||||||||||
| Ranking tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Wuxi Classic | Tournament Not Held | Non-Ranking | A | 1R | LQ | ||||||||||
| Australian Goldfields Open | Tournament Not Held | A | A | LQ | LQ | ||||||||||
| Shanghai Masters | Not Held | LQ | A | A | A | LQ | LQ | ||||||||
| International Championship | Tournament Not Held | A | 1R | LQ | |||||||||||
| UK Championship | A | A | LQ | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | |||||||
| German Masters | Tournament Not Held | A | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||||||||
| Welsh Open | A | A | LQ | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | |||||||
| Indian Open | Tournament Not Held | 1R | LQ | ||||||||||||
| Players Championship Grand Final[23] | Tournament Not Held | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||||
| China Open | NH | A | LQ | A | A | A | LQ | WR | |||||||
| World Championship | LQ | LQ | LQ | A | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||||||
| Non-ranking tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| The Masters | A | A | LQ | A | A | A | A | A | |||||||
| Former ranking tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Northern Ireland Trophy | Not Held | LQ | Tournament Not Held | ||||||||||||
| World Open[24] | A | A | LQ | A | A | A | 1R | NH | |||||||
| Former non-ranking tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Merseyside Professional Championship | A | 1R | Tournament Not Held | ||||||||||||
| Masters Qualifying Event | A | A | 1R | Tournament Not Held< | ----> | ||||||||||
| Performance Table Legend | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw |
| 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. | ||||