Mario Morra (pool player) explained

Mario Morra
Birth Date:8 September 1953[1]
Professional:1979
Game:Snooker, eight-ball, nine-ball, ten-ball
Current Ranking:Not WPA ranked
Highest Ranking:Not WPA ranked

Mario Morra (born 8 September 1953) is a Canadian professional pool player and former professional snooker player. He reached the tournament finals of the 1984 Canadian Professional Championship, the 2008 Canadian Nine-ball championship, and the 2010 Canadian Ten-ball championship.

Career

Morra became a snooker professional in 1979 and had limited success although he defeated both Mike Hallett and Jimmy White in the 1983 Jameson International Open, and, by winning three qualifying matches, reached the last 32 of the 1984 World Snooker Championship, where he lost 10–3 to Cliff Thorburn. He narrowly missed joining last 32 for the 1985 World Snooker Championship, losing 10–9 to John Campbell.[2]

He was runner-up to Cliff Thorburn in the 1984 Canadian Professional Championship.[3]

His highest ranking was 35, in the Snooker world rankings 1984/1985.

More recently, Morra is known as a pool player, and was runner up in both the 2008 Canadian Nine-ball Championship and the 2010 Canadian Ten-ball Championship.

He has a son, John Morra, with professional pool and snooker player Anita McMahon. McMahon has won 15 Canadian pool titles, and won the Canadian Women's Snooker title three times, from 2004 to 2006. John Morra is a top ranked professional pool player.[4] Alex Pagulayan won the 2012 Canadian Eight-ball Championship after defeating Mario Morra in the semi-final, and John Morra in the final.[5] Pagulayan also beat Mario Morra in the early rounds of the 2016 Canadian Nine-ball Championship before defeating John Morra in the final.[6]

Achievements

Snooker

Pool

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hale, Janice . 1987 . Rothmans Snooker Yearbook 1987–88 . Queen Anne Press . 128–129 . 0356146901 .
  2. Book: Hale, Janice . 1991 . Rothmans Snooker Yearbook 1991–92 . Queen Anne Press . 182–184 . 0356197476 .
  3. Book: Hayton, Eric. 2004. Cuesport Book of Professional Snooker. 151. 978-0954854904.
  4. Web site: Born to Play Pool . Paradise . Keith . billiardsdigest.com . Billiards Digest . June 2016 . 27 September 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170119023658/http://www.billiardsdigest.com/new_current_issue/jun_16/bb_index.php . 19 January 2017 . live .
  5. News: Noguera . Emil . 19 June 2012 . Pagulayan rules Canadian 8-Ball Championship . The Manila Time . A1 . PressReader. Retrieved 27 September 2019. .
  6. News: Noguera . Emil . 21 May 2016 . Pagulayan rules Quebec 9-ball . The Manila Time . C1 . PressReader. Retrieved 27 September 2019. .
  7. Web site: Mario Morra . azbilliards.com . AZBilliards . 27 September 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170125214132/http://www.azbilliards.com/people/1708-mario-morra/ . 25 January 2017 . live .
  8. Web site: CBSA Past Champions . proimpact.ca . Canadian Billiards and Snooker Association . 27 September 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190830234101/http://proimpact.ca/cbsa/cbsa-past-champions/ . 30 August 2019 . live .
  9. Web site: Rankings . proimpact.ca . Canadian Billiards and Snooker Association . 27 September 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190830234117/http://proimpact.ca/cbsa/rankings/ . 30 August 2019 . live .

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