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Oliver Brown
	Brown in 2018
Born	18 August 1994 (age 30); Dronfield, Derbyshire, England
Sport country	England
Professional	2022–2024
Highest ranking	84 (October 2023)
Best ranking finish	Last 16 (x1)

Oliver Brown (born 18 August 1994 in Dronfield, Derbyshire)^[2] is an English former professional snooker player. He turned professional at the start of the 2022/2023 season. He earned a two-year tour card after winning the men's EBSA European Snooker Championship in October 2021.

Career

2013/2014 season

Brown played in a stage of any ranking event in the first time in the 2013/2014 season. However, he lost in the first qualifying stage of the Australian Open to Joel Walker 5–3. Brown qualified for his first ever ranking tournament's venue stages in October 2013, beating Nigel Bond in the qualifying stage 6–3 in the International Championship. However, he lost in the first round in Chengdu by a 6–4 scoreline to Mark Davis.^[3]

2014/2015 season

In the first ranking event of the 2014–15 season, Brown was drawn against Chinese snooker star Ding Junhui in the Wuxi Classic. He beat Ding 5–0 in emphatic fashion, qualifying for a second ranking tournament.^[4] Brown continued his good form in China, beating Oliver Lines 5–1 in the last 64 stage, before losing to Martin Gould 5–1.^[5] Brown entered in the second ranking event of the season, the Australian Goldfields Open. He had to play four qualifying rounds to get to the venue stage. In the end, he beat Andrew Norman 5–3, Dave Harold 5–1 and Gary Wilson 5–3 before losing in the final qualifying round to Tom Ford 5–1.^[6]

Brown qualified for the International Championship by beating Jamie Cope and lost 6–1 to Mark Williams in the first round.^[6] Brown was drawn against reigning world champion Mark Selby in the first round of the UK Championship and was whitewashed 6–0.^[7] At the Welsh Open he beat Mike Dunn 4–3 and home favourite Ryan Day 4–1 to reach the last 32 of a ranking event for the second time this season.^[8] Brown suffered a 4–0 defeat against Luca Brecel and his season would come to an end with a heavy 10–1 loss to Liam Highfield in the first round of World Championship qualifying. He entered Q School, but could only win a total of two matches to fall short of earning a place on the tour.^[6]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament	2010/ 11	2011/ 12	2012/ 13	2013/ 14	2014/ 15	2015/ 16	2016/ 17	2017/ 18	2018/ 19	2019/ 20	2020/ 21	2021/ 22	2022/ 23	2023/ 24
Ranking^[9]^{[nb 1]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 3]}	91
Ranking tournaments
Championship League	Non-Ranking Event										RR	RR	RR	RR
European Masters	Tournament Not Held						A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R
British Open	Tournament Not Held											A	LQ	1R
English Open	Tournament Not Held						A	A	A	A	A	A	LQ	1R
Wuhan Open	Tournament Not Held													LQ
Northern Ireland Open	Tournament Not Held						A	A	A	A	A	A	LQ	LQ
International Championship	Not Held		A	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	Tournament Not Held			LQ
UK Championship	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	LQ	LQ
Shoot Out	Non-Ranking Event						1R	1R	A	A	1R	A	1R	2R
Scottish Open	Not Held		MR	Tournament Not Held			A	A	A	A	A	A	LQ	LQ
World Grand Prix	Tournament Not Held				NR	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
German Masters	A	A	A	A	LQ	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	LQ	1R
Welsh Open	A	A	A	A	3R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	LQ	LQ
Players Championship^{[nb 4]}	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
World Open	A	A	A	A	Not Held		A	A	A	A	Tournament Not Held			1R
Tour Championship	Tournament Not Held								DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
World Championship	A	A	A	A	LQ	A	A	A	A	LQ	A	A	LQ	LQ
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic	Non-Ranking		A	A	2R	Tournament Not Held
Australian Goldfields Open	NH	A	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	Tournament Not Held
Shanghai Masters	A	A	A	A	LQ	A	A	A	Non-Ranking		Tournament Not Held			NR
Paul Hunter Classic	Minor-Ranking Event						1R	3R	1R	NR	Tournament Not Held
Indian Open	Tournament Not Held			A	LQ	NH	1R	A	A	Tournament Not Held
China Open	A	A	A	A	LQ	LQ	A	A	A	Tournament Not Held
Riga Masters^{[nb 5]}	Tournament Not Held				Minor-Ranking		LQ	A	A	A	Tournament Not Held
WST Pro Series	Tournament Not Held										RR	Tournament Not Held
Gibraltar Open	Tournament Not Held					MR	LQ	2R	4R	LQ	1R	A	Not Held
WST Classic	Tournament Not Held												1R	NH
Former non-ranking tournaments
Six-red World Championship	A	NH	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Not Held		LQ	NH

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.
MR / Minor-Ranking Event				means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.

^ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l He was an amateur
^ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking
^ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Final (2010/2011–2015/2016)
^ The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)

Career finals

Amateur finals: 3 (2 titles)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	2019	Challenge Tour – Event 1	Cheung Ka Wai	1–3
Winner	1.	2019	Challenge Tour – Event 6	Ashley Hugill	3–1
Winner	2.	2021	EBSA European Snooker Championship	Ivan Kakovskii	5–4