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Fraser Patrick

Fraser Patrick

Scottish snooker player

Fraser Patrick (born 8 November 1985) is a Scottish former professional snooker player from Glasgow.

Quick Facts Born, Sport country ...

Career

Patrick started his professional career in 2002 by playing Challenge Tour, where he spent three seasons without success. In 2007 Patrick earned the Scottish nomination to make his Main Tour debut. Aside from Grand Prix, where he won four matches at the round-robin qualifying stage and finished third in his group, he was to struggle for wins during his debut season and was relegated from the tour.

With the introduction of Q School, Patrick came agonisingly close to regaining his tour place, twice losing his final match both in 2011 and 2012.[9][10] Nevertheless, thanks to his high Q School ranking Patrick was able to compete in all the major ranking tournaments of the 2012/13 season as an amateur.[11] He enjoyed his best ever performance at the 2013 German Masters, where he beat Michael White and Martin Gould to qualify to the venue stages and was leading Ali Carter 3–1 before eventually losing 5–3. He also recorded an impressive 10–6 win against Luca Brecel at the World Championship qualifiers.[12] Patrick was to end the season on a high note, as in the final round of the third event of the 2013 Q School he edged out Ashley Carty 4–3 to regain his place on the main tour.[13]

Patrick won just three matches during the 2013–14 season, all of them in the minor-ranking European Tour events, to end up ranked world number 119.[14][15]

His 2014–15 season was much better as he started it by beating Jimmy White 5–2 to qualify for the 2014 Wuxi Classic. In Patrick's debut at a Chinese ranking event he lost 5–3 to Sam Baird. He whitewashed Stuart Bingham 4–0 at the minor-ranking Paul Hunter Classic and then defeated Matthew Stevens 4–3 and Jamie Jones 4–1 to reach the last 16, where Rod Lawler ended his run 4–0.[16] Patrick won his first ever match at the venue stage of a ranking event by seeing off Jamie Burnett 6–4 at the UK Championship. He then knocked out world number 22 Ryan Day 6–4, during which he made a 139 break which went on to be the third highest of the event.[17] In his second last 32 appearance at a ranking event he lost 6–3 to Judd Trump.[18] Patrick qualified for the Indian Open, but lost 4–2 to Jamie Cope in the first round.[16] Patrick could not get into the top 64 in the world rankings (he was 77th), but by finishing 40th on the European Order of Merit he earned himself a new two-year tour place.[19][20]

Patrick began the 2015–16 season by whitewashing Michael Williams 5–0 and beating Tom Ford 5–1 to reach the third qualifying round of the Australian Goldfields Open, but lost 5–3 to David Morris. He was knocked out in the first round of the UK Championship 6–4 by Michael Holt.[21] Patrick lost in a deciding frame to world number three Neil Robertson in the first round of the Welsh Open.[22]

At the 2016 English Open, Patrick eliminated Zak Surety 4–1 and James Wattana 4–2 and then narrowly lost 4–3 to John Higgins in the third round. He reached the same stage of the Northern Ireland Open after only conceding one frame during wins over Marc Davis and Duane Jones, but he was thrashed 4–0 by Barry Hawkins. Patrick lost the final two frames both times in his 6–5 and 5–4 first round defeats to Michael White and Mark Joyce at the UK Championship and China Open respectively.[23] He entered the 2017 Q School to try and stay on the tour as he has finished the season outside of the top 64 in the rankings at world number 105, but failed to advance beyond the third round of either event.[24]

Patrick came through the second event of the 2019 Q School by winning six matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons.[25]

Performance and rankings timeline

More information Tournament, 2002/03 ...
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 don't have a ranking
  4. [N 4]
    Players qualified through European Tour Order of Merit started the season without prize money ranking points
  5. [N 5]
    Players qualified through Q School started the season without ranking points
  6. [N 6]
    The event was called the European Open (2002/2003–2003/2004) and Malta Cup (2004/2005 and 2007/2008)
  7. [N 7]
    The event was called the Players Championship (2003/2004)
  8. [N 8]
    The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2012/2013)
  9. [N 9]
    The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)
  10. [N 10]
    The event was called the LG Cup (2002/2003–2003/2004) and the Grand Prix (2004/2005–2007/2008)

Career finals

Amateur finals: 3 (2 titles)

Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Winner 1. 2006 Scottish Amateur Championship Scotland Robert Stephen 7–3
Runner-up 1. 2007 Scottish Amateur Championship Scotland James McBain 7–6
Winner 2. 2018 Scottish Amateur Championship (2) Scotland Ross Vallance 7–4

References

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    "World Rankings after the Coral UK Championship 2014" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  2. [2]
    "World Rankings after the Kreativ Dental Lisbon Open 2014 (ET5)" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  3. [3]
    "World Rankings after the Xuzhou Open 2015 (AT3)" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  4. [4]
    "World Rankings after the German Masters 2015" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  5. [5]
    "World Rankings after the BetVictor Welsh Open 2015" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 22 February 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  6. [6]
    "World Rankings after the Kreativ Dental Gdynia Open 2015 (ET6)" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 6 March 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
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    "World Rankings after the Indian Open 2015" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 16 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  8. [8]
    "World Rankings after the Players Championship 2015" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 30 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  9. [9]
    "Fraser Patrick 2010/2011". Snooker.org. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  10. [10]
    "Fraser Patrick 2011/2012". Snooker.org. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  11. [11]
    "Patrick Ready To Dodge A Bullet". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 5 April 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  12. [12]
    "Fraser Patrick 2012/2013". Snooker.org. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  13. [13]
    "Wonderful Wakelin Earns Tour Place". World Snooker. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  14. [14]
    "Fraser Patrick 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  15. [15]
    "World Snooker Rankings After the 2014 World Championship" (PDF). World Snooker. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  16. [16]
    "Fraser Patrick 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  17. [17]
    "Snooker: Higgins gets lucky break but Scot slates table conditions in York". The Herald. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  18. [18]
    "Hard work pays off as Trump blasts into last 16".
  19. [19]
    "European Order of Merit 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  20. [20]
    "World Rankings After 2015 World Championship". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 7 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  21. [21]
    "Fraser Patrick 2015/2016". Snooker.org. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  22. [22]
    "Neil Robertson edges past Fraser Patrick at Welsh Open". Cambridge News. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  23. [23]
    "Fraser Patrick 2016/2017". Snooker.org. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  24. [24]
    "Rankings 2016/2017". Snooker.org. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  25. [25]
    "PATRICK AND CHEN EARN TOUR RETURNS". World Snooker. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  26. [26]
    "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
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