- Ryan Day
Infobox Snooker player
Name = Ryan Day
Caption =
Born = birth date and age|1980|3|23
Birthplace =Pontycymer , Bridgend
Nationality = flagicon|Wales Welsh
Nickname = Fivva, The Tilting Teapot
Professional = 1999–
High ranking = #8 (2008/09)
Current rank = #8
Prize money = £230,330
High break = 145 - World Championship (Qualifying) 2004
Best finish = Runner up: 2007Malta Cup , 2007Shanghai Masters
Ranking wins =
Other wins = 1
World champ =Ryan Day (born
23 March 1980 , inPontycymer , Bridgend,Wales ), is a Welsh professionalsnooker player. He is known as a very solid breakbuilder and is one of only 26 players to have made over a century of centuries. Cite web|url=http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Centuries.htm|title=Chris Turner's Snooker Archive: Snooker's Top Century Makers|accessdate=2007-04-28|year=2007]Career
He was named Young Player of Distinction of the season 2000/2001 by the
World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). He won the 2002Benson & Hedges Championship . With this win, he qualified for the 2002 Masters, where he defeatedDave Harold , before losing 0-6 toStephen Hendry . He also won the WPBSA Challenge Tour 2001/2002 and was named WPBSA Newcomer of the Year 2002. Due to problems with his liver in 2003, his results suffered badly.In 2004, however, he qualified for the World Snooker Championship and he led
John Higgins 9-7 in the first round, becoming the first player to score 3 Cuegloss|Century|centuries in his first Crucible match, but lost the last 3 Cuegloss|Frame|frames. As some consolation, Higgins commented that Day was "going to be a top player for many years to come". Cite web
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/3637573.stm
title = Higgins wins thriller
publisher =BBC Sport
date = 2004-04-19
accessdate = 2008-07-13]Day reached the quarter-finals of his home tournament, the
Welsh Open , in 2005, defeatingAllister Carter andSteve Davis along the way and he named his comeback from 0-4 to beatSteve Davis 5-4 as his best victory to date.Back at the Crucible in 2006, he beat
Joe Perry 10-3 in the first round and ledRonnie O'Sullivan 9-7 in the second round before losing 13-10. Results this season saw him climb 33-17 in the rankings.The season 2006/2007 was the most successful of his career to date: he reached the quarter-finals of the 2006
Northern Ireland Trophy and was runner up in theMalta Cup 2007, losing 9-4 to Shaun Murphy. That year's performance saw him ranked 16th in the world for the 2007/2008 season, one place higher than in the previous year. As a member of the elite Top 16, he is automatically pre-qualified for tournaments.Day's 2007/2008 season started with an appearance in the final of the
Shanghai Masters ; Day led his practise partnerDominic Dale 6-2 after the first session, but eventually succumbed to a 6-10 defeat. After failing to progress past the last 16 in the next three tournaments, he reached the semi-finals of the China Open, beatingMatthew Stevens ,Ken Doherty and Mark Williams (all 5-3) on the way, before he was beaten by his friendStephen Maguire 6-5, denying him a place in the final. Day made it through to the quarter-finals of the 2008 World Championship for the first time in his career by beating IrishmanMichael Judge 10-6 and the 2007 World Championship winnerJohn Higgins 13-9 in one of the best wins of his career, Cite web
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/7368712.stm
title = Champion Higgins stunned by Day
publisher =BBC Sport
date = 2008-04-26
accessdate = 2008-07-13] before losing 13-7 toStephen Hendry . His consistent performances mean that he will start the 2008/2009 season provisionly ranked 5 in the world.Personal life
Day was childhood sweethearts with Lynsey, who is four years older then him. She moved away some years later, but in 1999 Day's father married Lynsey's sister, Paula. After Lynsey's long term relationship broke down, she returned to Pontycymmer to stay with her sister. Day and Lynsey started dating again, and moved in together in April 2006 five houses away from Paula and Day's fathers house. Lynsey gave birth to their daughter Francesca on the
2 August 2006 , and they married on FridayJune 13 ,2008 . [citeweb|url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1290401.ece|title=Snooker ace Ryan marries his auntie|publisher=The Sun|date=2008-06-13|accessdate=2008-06-14]His younger brother Rhys has played football for
Manchester City ,Mansfield Town and captained the Welsh under-21 side. He is currently playing for Aldershot Town, who play in League 2 and he is the club captain.Day and his father run The Vetz Club in
Pontycymmer . The club is a combination of a snooker club and a public bar.Tournament wins
Ranking
Non ranking
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Benson & Hedges Championship – 2001External links
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* [http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/Players/Global_Europe/Global_Welsh/wales_rayn_day.htm Profile on the Global Snooker Centre]References
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