Anthony McGill (snooker player)

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Anthony McGill
Anthony McGill at Snooker German Masters (DerHexer) 2015-02-04 05.jpg
Anthony McGill at the 2015 German Masters
Born (1991-02-05) 5 February 1991 (age 33)
Glasgow, Scotland
Sport country  Scotland
Nickname Licensed To Thrill[1]
Professional 2010–
Highest ranking 22
Current ranking 28 (as of 2 May 2016)
Career winnings £219,020[2]
Highest break 144 (2014 World Open)[3][4]
Century breaks 94[5]
Best ranking finish Quarter-final (2013 Indian Open, 2014 UK Championship, 2015 World Championship)

Anthony McGill (born 5 February 1991) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He is a practice partner of Alan McManus.[6]

McGill turned professional in 2010, after finishing fourth in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings.[7]

Career

Amateur years

He was runner-up to Stuart Carrington in the 2006 Junior Pot Black.[8]

He was runner-up in the 2008 European Under-19′s Championship behind Stephen Craigie.[9]

In the 2009/2010 season he won the fifth event of the International Open Series and finished fourth in the rankings. Thus, McGill received a place on the professional Main Tour for 2010/2011. He reached his first professional final losing 1–6 to John Higgins in the 2011 Scottish Professional Championship.

2011/2012

McGill did not manage to qualify for the main stage of any ranking event tournaments during the season, reaching the final qualifying on one occasion in an attempt to reach the German Masters.[10] He reached the semi-finals of Event 3 in the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship series, which included wins over experienced campaigners Matthew Stevens and Stephen Lee, before losing 0–4 to Ben Woollaston.[11] McGill's season concluded with an 8–10 defeat to Anthony Hamilton in the penultimate qualifying round for the World Championship, finishing the season ranked world number 50.[10][12]

2012/2013

McGill could only qualify for the China Open during the 2012/2013 season. He beat David Grace, Yu Delu and Martin Gould to reach the venue in Beijing, where he defeated Heydari Nezhad Ehsan 5–3 in the wildcard round.[13] He faced Mark Allen in the last 32 and lost 1–5.[14] McGill had a very good season in the Players Tour Championship events by reaching his first ever ranking final in the European Tour Event 5, played in his homeland of Scotland. He saw off the likes of Mark Davis and Robert Milkins to make it through to the quarter-finals where he was 0–3 and 51 points down against Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon to triumph 4–3.[13][15] He was also 1–3 down in the semis to Andrew Higginson, but recovered to win on a respotted black. McGill played Ding Junhui in the final and came up short of winning the title as he lost 2–4.[15] The run helped him to 16th on the PTC Order of Merit to qualify for the Finals,[16] where he beat Milkins 4–2 before once again losing to Ding, this time by a 3–4 scoreline.[13] In the third round of World Championship Qualifying McGill fought back from 3–8 down against Rod Lawler to force a decider which Lawler won.[17] McGill ended the season at number 48 in the world rankings, at that point his highest position.[18]

2013/2014

File:Anthony McGill at Snooker German Masters (Martin Rulsch) 2014-01-29 08.jpg
Anthony McGill at the 2014 German Masters

McGill lost in qualifying for the first three events of the season, but at the Indian Open he reached the quarter-finals of a ranking tournament for the first time.[19] He faced Robbie Williams and was whitewashed 4–0.[20] At the minor-ranking Zhengzhou Open he let a 2–0 lead slip in the semi-finals against Liang Wenbo to lose 4–3.[21] McGill was beaten in the last 32 of ranking events on three further occasions during the season.[19]

2014/2015

McGill began the season with a 5–3 loss to John Higgins in the first round of the Wuxi Classic. He reached the semi-finals of the Riga Open after beating Judd Trump 4–3, but lost in another final frame decider against Mark Allen.[22] McGill eliminated both Michael Georgiou and Igor Figueiredo by 6–4 scorelines at the UK Championship and then came back from 4–1 down against Nigel Bond to triumph 6–5.[23] He reached his first UK quarter-final by holding on to beat John Higgins 6–5 after being 4–1 up, but attributed the win to Higgins' bad form rather than his own good play.[24] McGill then lost 6–4 to Ronnie O'Sullivan after being 2–0 ahead and admitted he had blown his opportunity to knock out the four-time UK champion after failing to capitalise on the many chances that came his way during the game. However, he did break into the top 32 in the world rankings for the first time after the event.[25] McGill finished 21st on the European Order of Merit to play in the Grand Final and overcame Peter Ebdon 4–1 in the first round, before losing 4–3 to Joe Perry.[26]

McGill finished the year by qualifying for the televised stages of the World Championship for the first time, after coming through three matches, ending with a 10–9 victory over Mark King which he closed with a 127 break.[22] Compatriot Stephen Maguire levelled their first round match at 9–9 after having been 9–5 behind, but McGill once again made a century break in the deciding frame, this time a 122.[27] McGill then knocked out defending champion Mark Selby 13–9 in the second round, with Selby stating that he believed McGill could win the title if he could maintain his form.[28] In the third ranking event quarter-final of his career, McGill lost 13–8 to Shaun Murphy.[29] The crowd warmed to McGill during his run in the tournament due to him smiling frequently between shots and displaying a relaxed attitude.[30][31] He was the world number 24 afterwards, resulting in a climb of 21 places in 12 months.[32]


2015/2016

Last year's finalist Shaun Murphy suffered a shock 10–8 first-round loss to qualifier Anthony McGill at the World Championship in Sheffield. In a repeat of the 2015 quarter-final, McGill gained revenge despite falling 5–4 behind after the first session. A high-quality encounter saw both world number 30 McGill and 2005 champion Murphy make two centuries each.

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2010/
11		 2011/
12		 2012/
13		 2013/
14		 2014/
15		 2015/
16		 2016/
17
Ranking[33][nb 1] UR[nb 2] 59 50 48 45 24 28
Ranking tournaments
Riga Masters[nb 3] Tournament Not Held MR
Indian Open Not Held QF 2R NH
World Open[nb 4] LQ LQ LQ 1R Not Held
Paul Hunter Classic Minor-Ranking Event
Shanghai Masters LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ
European Championship Tournament Not Held
English Open Tournament Not Held
International Championship Not Held LQ 1R 2R 2R
Irish Open Tournament Not Held
UK Championship LQ LQ LQ 3R QF 2R
Scottish Open Not Held MR Not Held
German Masters 1R LQ LQ 2R 1R LQ
World Grand Prix Tournament Not Held NR DNQ
Welsh Open LQ LQ LQ 3R 2R 3R
Gibraltar Open Tournament Not Held MR
Players Championship[nb 5] DNQ DNQ 2R DNQ 2R DNQ
China Open LQ LQ 1R 1R 2R 1R
World Championship LQ LQ LQ LQ QF 2R
Ranking & variant format tournaments
Shoot-Out Variant Format Event
Variant format tournaments
Six-red World Championship A NH A A A 2R
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic Non-Ranking LQ LQ 1R Not Held
Australian Goldfields Open NH LQ LQ LQ LQ A NH
Former non-ranking tournaments
World Grand Prix Tournament Not Held 1R Ranking
Former variant format tournaments
Shoot-Out 1R 1R 2R 1R 2R 2R RV
Performance Table Legend
LQ lost in the qualifying draw #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)		 QF lost in the quarter-finals
SF lost in the semi-finals F lost in the final W won the tournament
DNQ did not qualify for the tournament A did not participate in the tournament WD withdrew from the tournament
NH / Not Held means an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Event means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.
RV / Ranking & Variant Format Event means an event is/was a ranking & variant format event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
PA / Pro-am Event means an event is/was a pro-am event.
VF / Variant Format Event means an event is/was a variant format event.
  1. ↑ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. ↑ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  3. ↑ The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)
  4. ↑ The event was called the Haikou World Open (2011/2012–2013/2014)
  5. ↑ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2012/2013) and the Players Championship Grand Final (2013/2014–2015/2016)

Career finals

Minor-ranking event finals: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Runner-up 1. 2012 Scottish Open China Ding Junhui 2–4

Amateur event finals

Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Runner-up 1 2008 European Under-19 Snooker Championship England Stephen Craigie 2–6
Runner-up 2. 2010 European Under-19 Snooker Championship Wales Jak Jones 4–6

References

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