Career winnings £43,510 Century breaks 8 Highest ranking 64 | Professional 2014– Highest break 133 (2012 Gdynia Open) Name Oliver Lines | |
Current ranking 67 (as of 1 December 2015) Similar People | ||
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Oliver Lines (born 16 June 1995) is an English professional snooker player. He practises at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds. He is the son of fellow professional snooker player Peter Lines.
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Amateur
Lines switched sports from football to snooker at aged 14. His progression continued by entering into the Players Tour Championship events in 2011, but made little impact in the 2011/2012 season. 2012/2013 saw major improvement and a notable 4–3 over Joe Perry in 2012 UKPTC 3, he also entered Q School for the first time in May 2013 in the hope of qualifying on the main but failed to do after securing four wins in the three events. Despite not qualifying for the main tour, Lines' performances in Q School were enough to earn him a top up place in the qualifying round of the 2013 Australian Goldfields Open, his first senior ranking event, he won in the opening round beating fellow Leeds-based player David Grace 5–4, but suffered a 5–4 reverse in the second round last 96 stage to Zhang Anda of China. For the rest of the season, Lines continued enter into PTC and amateur events, with his most notable result being a 4–2 over professional Scott Donaldson in the 2013 Ruhr Open.
Professional
In 2014, Lines won a place on the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons after beating Josh Boileau 6–1 in the final of the 2014 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships.
2014/2015
His first match as a professional was a successful one, beating Dave Harold 5–4 in the qualifying stages of the Wuxi Classic, but he lost 5–1 to amateur Oliver Brown at the venue stage. He had a run to the last 16 stage of the opening Asian PTC event of the season in the Yixing Open, but failed to qualify for the Australian Goldfields Open and Shanghai Masters. In qualifying for the International Championship Lines beat world champion and world number one Mark Selby 6–4 from 4–0 down at the mid-session interval. He continued to impress at the Haining Open by reaching his first professional semi-final after dispatching Ryan Day 4–2 with breaks of 120 and 113. He then edged out Jimmy Robertson 4–3, but was whitewashed 4–0 in the final by Stuart Bingham. He came through a wildcard match at the International, but lost 6–3 to Rod Lawler in the first round. Lines' Asian final helped him finish fifth on their Order of Merit to make his debut in the Grand Final, where he was eliminated 4–1 by Matthew Selt in the opening round. His first season as a professional concluded with a 10–7 defeat against Mark Davis in the second round of World Championship qualifying. He finished his first season as a professional ranked world number 78.
