Steven Hallworth (born December 1, 1995), British snooker player

Steven Hallworth

December 1, 1995

Junior Hallworth started playing snooker aged 10 after trying pool on a family holiday. He was also one 8 finalists in the 2010 Rileys Future Stars competition ran by Ronnie O"Sullivan, but lost out to Joel Walker. Amateur lieutenant was also Hallworth"s televised debut. Hallworth beat Martin Ball 4–1 in the first round, before beating Mitchell Travis 4–3 in the final round to earn place on the tour the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons. Professional All 128 players on the snooker tour automatically play in the first round of the United Kingdom Championship and in Hallworth"s debut at the venue stage of a ranking event he lost 6–1 to Mark Williams. In the Welsh Open first round he took Shaun Murphy to a deciding frame but lost it to be edged out 4–3. He ended his first season on tour as the world number 116.

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Career

Junior

Hallworth started playing snooker aged 10 after trying pool on a family holiday. He was also one 8 finalists in the 2010 Rileys Future Stars competition ran by Ronnie O"Sullivan, but lost out to Joel Walker. Amateur

lieutenant was also Hallworth"s televised debut.

Hallworth beat Martin Ball 4–1 in the first round, before beating Mitchell Travis 4–3 in the final round to earn place on the tour the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons.

Professional

All 128 players on the snooker tour automatically play in the first round of the United Kingdom Championship and in Hallworth"s debut at the venue stage of a ranking event he lost 6–1 to Mark Williams. In the Welsh Open first round he took Shaun Murphy to a deciding frame but lost it to be edged out 4–3.

He ended his first season on tour as the world number 116.

Achievements

He then found success in junior and amateur levels and was given the opportunity to play future World Champion Mark Selby aged 12 in 2009, after winning that years Under-17 Lincoln and District Billiards and Snooker Association crown. Hallworth then progressed on to Players Tour Championship events in 2011 and Q School in 2013, but it wasn"t until the 2013/2014 when Hallworth started to progress to the main rounds of PTC events, a 4–3 defeat to Kurt Maflin in the Paul Hunter Classic and a 4–0 loss to former World Champion Mark Williams in the Antwerp Open. Hallworth"s performances in the EBSA Amateur Cup Events were enough to qualify him for the six-man play-off event, with three players winning two-year professional tour cards on the World Snooker Tour, with a win in the Antwerp event. Hallworth failed to qualify for the opening two ranking events in the 2014/2015 season, but did secure his first win as a professional, beating Zak Surety 5–4 in the first qualifying round of the Australian Goldfields Open. Hallworth led reigning Indian Open champion Michael White 4–0 in the opening round of World Championship qualifying, before losing seven frames in a row and went on to be defeated 10–8.

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