| Shawn Budd | |
| Birth Date: | 2 March 1974 |
| Birth Place: | NSW, Australia |
| Professional: | 1992–1996, 1998/99 |
Shawn Budd (born 2 March 1974 in Sydney, Australia), is an Australian former snooker player and pool player that has won major snooker and pool tournaments in Australia, New Zealand, England and America. He is the only Australian snooker player ever to win the Australian Open Snooker, Australian National Snooker, Australian 9-ball and 8-ball titles. Also he has won the Oceania Snooker championships and was runner up in the Oceania Billiards Championship in the same year.[1] In 2002 he was a quarter finalist in the IBSF World Billiards Championships (50 up). In 1994 he won the Valley National Open 8-ball tournament in Las Vegas (over 5000 entries) and in 2001 he won the Masters 8-ball event. The event is now called the World Pool Championships.
Budd grew up in the Sydney suburb of Coogee. His grandfather, from Liverpool, England, first taught Shawn how to play snooker.
He attended Marcellin College Randwick.
Budd's cousin is actor/director Michael Budd.
Turned professional in 1992.
| Tournament | 1992/ 93 | 1993/ 94 | 1994/ 95 | 1995/ 96 | 1998/ 99 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking[2] | [3] | 423 | 348 | 457 | |||||
| Ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Grand Prix | LQ | LQ | A | A | LQ | ||||
| UK Championship | LQ | LQ | A | A | LQ | ||||
| Irish Open[4] | LQ | LQ | A | A | LQ | ||||
| Welsh Open | LQ | LQ | A | A | LQ | ||||
| Scottish Open[5] | LQ | LQ | A | A | LQ | ||||
| Thailand Masters[6] | LQ | LQ | A | A | LQ | ||||
| China International | Tournament Not Held | LQ | |||||||
| British Open | LQ | LQ | A | A | LQ | ||||
| World Championship | LQ | A | LQ | A | LQ | ||||
| Former ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Thailand Classic[7] | LQ | LQ | A | A | NH | ||||
| 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 | |
| DQ | disqualified from the tournament | |||||
| NH / Not Held | event was not held. | ||||
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | event is/was no longer a ranking event. | ||||
| R / Ranking Event | event is/was a ranking event. | ||||
| MR / Minor-Ranking Event | event is/was a minor-ranking event. | ||||