Gary Ponting

Gary Ponting
Born (1975-01-17) 17 January 1975 (age 49)
Sport country England
Professional1993–2002
Highest ranking49 (1999/2000)
Best ranking finishQuarter-final (x2)

Gary Ponting (born 17 January 1975) is an English former professional snooker player.[1]

Career

Ponting was born in 1975, and turned professional in 1993. He reached the last 32 of the 1994 World Championship, losing 2–10 to Willie Thorne, and the same stage of the 1996 Thailand Open, where Peter Ebdon whitewashed him 5–0.

He then progressed to the last 16 of another four ranking events, most notably at the 1998 UK Championship, where he made five century breaks including a 138, which was the highest of his career.

He reached a career-high ranking of 49th for the 1999–2000 season, retaining his top-64 place until the start of the 2002–03 season. Having suffered a loss of form, however, he entered only one further tournament, the 2003 World Championship, where he lost 1–10 in qualifying to India's Manan Chandra.

By 2003, Ponting's ranking had slipped to 73rd and he lost his professional status at the age of 28.

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 1993/
94 		1994/
95 		1995/
96 		1996/
97 		1997/
98 		1998/
99 		1999/
00 		2000/
01 		2001/
02 		2002/
03
Ranking [nb 1] 173 113 74 85 75 49 53 53 [nb 2]
Ranking tournaments
LG Cup[nb 3] LQ LQ LQ 1R LQ LQ 1R WD LQ A
British Open LQ LQ LQ LQ QF LQ LQ QF LQ A
UK Championship LQ LQ LQ LQ 3R 3R 1R LQ LQ A
Welsh Open LQ LQ LQ LQ 1R 1R 1R 1R LQ A
European Open[nb 4] LQ LQ LQ LQ NH LQ Not Held LQ A
Scottish Open[nb 5] 1R LQ 3R LQ LQ LQ 3R LQ 1R A
World Championship 1R LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ
Non-ranking tournaments
The Masters A LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ A
Former ranking tournaments
Asian Classic[nb 6] LQ LQ LQ LQ Tournament Not Held
German Masters[nb 7] Not Held LQ LQ WD NR Tournament Not Held
Malta Grand Prix NH Non-Ranking Event LQ NR Not Held
China Open[nb 8] Tournament Not Held NR LQ LQ LQ LQ NH
Thailand Masters[nb 9] LQ LQ 1R LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ NR
Former non-ranking tournaments
Strachan Challenge LQ 1R Tournament Not Held
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.
  1. ^ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking
  2. ^ He was an amateur
  3. ^ The event was called the Grand Prix (1993/1994–2000/2001)
  4. ^ The event was called the Irish Open (1998/1999)
  5. ^ The event was called the International Open (1993/1994-1996/1997)
  6. ^ The event was called the Dubai Classic (1993/1994-1994/1995) and the Thailand Classic (1995/1996)
  7. ^ The event was called the German Open (1995/1996-1997/1998)
  8. ^ The event was called the China International (1997/1998-1998/1999)
  9. ^ The event was called the Thailand Open (1993/1994-1996/1997)

References

  1. ^ "Gary Ponting Player Profile". www.snookerdatabase.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 December 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.


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