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Sport country
  
England

Name
  
Dave Finbow

Century breaks
  
33


Career winnings
  
£275,795

Professional
  
1991–2005

Highest ranking
  
28

Born
  
February 27, 1968 (age 56) Worcester (
1968-02-27
)

Highest break
  
140 (1997 World Championship qualifying)

Best ranking finish
  
Quarter-finals (four times)

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David "Dave" Finbow is a former English professional snooker player from Worcester. 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. 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. Unfortunately for Finbow he 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 8-0 down. After the match he expressed his distress and by the end of the 2002-2003 season he announced his retirement from the game altogether.

References

Dave Finbow Wikipedia


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