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David Finbow

David Finbow

English snooker player

David Finbow (born 27 February 1968) is an English former professional snooker player from Worcester.

Quick Facts Born, Sport country ...

Career

In his career, he managed to beat players such as Ronnie O'Sullivan, Ken Doherty and James Wattana. Originally a soccer player, he was introduced to snooker by a neighbourhood friend. He attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto for high school, where he became a star in his new sport for the Bulldogs, who began dominating the Toronto league in 1978. Throughout his career he reached five quarter-finals in ranking tournaments, as well as the last 16 of many events and he once looked as if he could get into the top 16 of the world rankings.[1] However, his results in tournaments suffered, which was partly due to suffering from anxiety attacks which caused him to feel nauseated and unable to concentrate in a match. Finbow could not find a cure, and despite taking prescribed medication and trying a number of solutions it did not cure his anxiety attacks completely. After beating David Gray and Dave Harold to reach the last 16 of the 2001 UK Championship he was playing Ronnie O'Sullivan, but suffered a particularly bad anxiety attack, and was forced to retire the match at 0–8 down.[2] After the match he expressed his distress and by the end of the 2002–2003 season he announced his retirement from the game altogether.[3]

Performance and rankings timeline

More information Tournament, 1990/91 ...
More information Performance table legend ...
NH / Not Heldmeans an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
  1. [N 1]
    From the 2010/2011 season it shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. [N 2]
    He was an amateur.
  3. [N 3]
    New players on the Main Tour do not have a ranking.
  4. [N 4]
    The event was called the Grand Prix (1990/1991–2000/2001, 2004/2005–2008/2009) and the LG Cup (2001/2002–2003/2004)
  5. [N 5]
    The event was called the International Open (1992/1993-1996/1997) and the Players Championship (2003/2004)
  6. [N 6]
    The event was called the European Open (1990/1991-1996/1997 and 2001/2002-2003/2004), the Irish Open (1998/1999) and the Malta Cup (2004/2005)
  7. [N 7]
    The event was called the German Open (1995/1996-1997/1998)
  8. [N 8]
    The event was called the Dubai Classic (1990/1991-1994/1995) and the Thailand Classic (1995/1996)
  9. [N 9]
    The event was called the Asian Open (1990/1991-1992/1993) and the Thailand Open (1993/1994-1996/1997)
  10. [N 10]
    The event was called the China International (1997/1998-1998/1999)

References

  1. [1]
    "Dave hopes to make his mark". Worcestershire News. 27 October 2000. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  2. [2]
    "Anxiety attack forces Finbow out". BBC. 2001. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  3. [3]
    "Dave Finbow - Why panic forced me to quit". Ronnie O'Sullivan. 17 December 2001. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  4. [4]
    "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
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