Countdown to Finals Day

THE professional signed as special guest for Finals Day has beaten his own world record.

World number 37 Mark Davis (pictured) will attend the Cuestars South of England Under-21 Gold, Silver and Bronze championship play-offs and end-of-season presentation on Sunday, May 14, at Jesters Snooker Club, Swindon.

Invited players must confirm their attendance by this Sunday (May 7).

The action starts at 10.30am. The Gold, Silver and Bronze play-offs will be a seeded round-robin followed by a knockout.

Those not progressing to the knockout and others who attend but did not finish in the top-16 on their respective tours can enter the one-frame Six Reds knockout.

Davis will play rankings winners, Section champions and play-off champions in exhibition frames from 1pm and present all the trophies at around 5.30pm.

On January 10, at the age of 44, in a Championship League match against former world champion Neil Robertson, Davis became the oldest player to make an official 147 maximum break.

And he repeated the feat against John Higgins in the same competition 51 days later.

Although the Sussex-based professional has been on the pro-circuit for 26 consecutive seasons, a fantastic achievement in its own right, he has never won a ranking event.

QUALIFIERS

Gold: Mark Lloyd (Stoke SC, Gosport), Mickey Joyce (Chandlers Ford SC), Connor Benzey (Chandlers Ford SC), Bradley Cowdroy (Greenbaize SC, Bournemouth), Callum Browne (Player’s, Westbury), Anthony Rice (Salisbury SC), Steven Hughes (Chandlers Ford SC), Oliver Sykes (Chandlers Ford SC), Dan Sykes (Chandlers Ford SC), Adam Stacey (Legends SC, Leytonstone), Ronnie Blake (Frames Sports Bar, Coulsdon), Olly Gibbs (Chandlers Ford SC), Jamie Wilson (Waterlooville Sports Bar), Arron Smith (Selsey RBL, Chichester), Mike Trigg (Chandlers Ford SC), James Budd (Fareham SC).

Silver: Ryan Hughes (Chandlers Ford SC), Charlie Pringle (Chandlers Ford SC), David O’Callaghan (Greenbaize SC, Bournemouth), Evan Plummer (Frames Sports Bar, Coulsdon), Keegan Reed (Salisbury SC), Kaine Petty (Salisbury SC), Nat Kidner (Greenbaize SC, Bournemouth), Ally Pollard (Salisbury SC), Bowen Zhu (Chandlers Ford SC), Harry Jones (Frames Sports Bar, Coulsdon), Drew Hampshire (147 SC, Swindon), Brett Wallace (Fareham SC), Ben Tillison (Copnor SC, Portsmouth).

Bronze: Riley Ellis (Jesters, Swindon), Shane Kearns (Jesters, Swindon), Chloe White (Copnor SC, Portsmouth), Thomas Saunders (Stepfield SC, Witham), Ronnie Sullivan (Frames Sports Bar, Coulsdon), Callum White (Copnor SC, Portsmouth), Will Forster (Mayfair SC, Gosport), Arnie Petty (Salisbury SC), Harry Joyce (Chandlers Ford SC), Riccardo Drayton (Chandlers Ford SC), O’Shay Scott (Chandlers Ford SC), Oscar Livesey-Lodwick (Nailsea Social Club), Ben Crump (Mayfair SC, Gosport), James Woodley (Nailsea Social Club), Oliver Cooper (Frames Sports Bar, Coulsdon), Adam Cowdroy (Greenbaize SC, Bournemouth).

Picture by Monique Limbos

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Tim Dunkley (World Snooker coach)