Marcus Campbell

For other people named Marcus Campbell, see Marcus Campbell (disambiguation).

Marcus Campbell

Born	22 September 1972 (1972-09-22) (age 39) Dumbarton, Scotland
Sport country	Scotland
Nickname	The Dumbarton Destroyer
Professional	1991
Highest ranking	22
Current ranking	22
Career winnings	UK£288,995[1]
Highest break	147 (2008 Bahrain Championship)
Best ranking finish	Quarter-final (1998 Scottish Open)
Tournament wins
Minor-ranking	1

Marcus Campbell (born 22 September 1972 in Dumbarton, Scotland) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He lives in Erskine. He has been ranked within the worlds top 64 for 9 consecutive seasons and is currently ranked at 24.

Career

He is perhaps most famous for whitewashing Stephen Hendry 9–0 in the 1998 Liverpool Victoria UK Championship, one of the most surprising results in snooker's history. He followed this win with 9–6 win over Quinten Hann in the last 32.

He started the 2007/2008 season strongly by reaching the last 16 of the Grand Prix, coming through the qualifiers and beating players like Graeme Dott and Anthony Hamilton before his run ended in a 5–2 defeat to Joe Swail. He also reached the last 32 of the Welsh Open where he beat Lee Spick, Ricky Walden and Gerard Greene and gave Ding Junhui a run for his money before Ding eventually won 5–4. He qualified for the 2008 Bahrain Championship before scoring a 147 in his wildcard match.^[1] He lost to eventual champion Neil Robertson in the last 32. He then qualified for the 2010 World Championship, where he lost 10–5 to Mark Williams.

Campbell won the first professional tournament of his career in Germany when he won Event 3 of the Euro Players Tour Championship beating Liang Wenbo 4–0 in the final. This result along with other consistent performances were enough to see him enter the top 32 in the rankings. He also qualified for the world championship for the second successive year, where he played Shaun Murphy. He subsequently lost 10–1 to Murphy.

Tournament wins

Minor-ranking wins

• Euro Players Tour Championship – Event 3 (2010)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Yahoo! Sport. 2009. Marcus Campbell. [Online] Yahoo! UK (Updated 2010) Available at: http://uk.yahoo.eurosport.com/snooker/person_prs32346.shtml [Accessed 11 February 2010].

External links

• "Marcus Campbell". WorldSnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 2007–2010 [copyright date]. "" section. http://www.worldsnooker.com/page//0,,{{{id}}}.html.  Official WPBSA player profile.
• Marcus Campbell – results & statistics at CueTracker.net
• Profile on Global Snooker

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Name	Campbell, Marcus
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Date of birth	22 September 1972
Place of birth	Dumbarton, Scotland
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