Joe O'Connor (snooker player)

Joe O'Connor (born 8 November 1995) is an English professional snooker player from Leicester.

Career[]

A pool champion as a junior, O'Connor has faced Neil Robertson and Mark Selby at the UK Championship and has qualified for the main draw at the Wuxi Classic.^[1]^[2]^[3]

He won four events on the 2017–18 English amateur tour.^[4]

Ahead of the 2018–19 season, O'Connor defeated Brandon Sargeant 4–1 and then Oliver Brown 4–0 to secure a two-year professional tour card for the first time at the 2018 Play-Offs at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.^[5]

In June 2018, he beat Andrew Norman 10–3 to become the English Amateur Champion before turning professional.

On 28 November 2018 O'Connor defeated world number 12 Ryan Day 6–2 in the first round at the 2018 UK Championship.^[6]

In February 2019 O'Connor defeated top 10 players Kyren Wilson, Ding Junhui and John Higgins en route to his first ranking event semi-final at the Welsh Open,^[7] eventually losing 2–6 to Stuart Bingham.

Tournament	2013/ 14	2014/ 15	2015/ 16	2016/ 17	2017/ 18	2018/ 19	2019/ 20	2020/ 21	2021/ 22
Ranking^[8]^{[nb 1]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 3]}	68	62	62
Ranking tournaments
Championship League	Non-Ranking Event							RR	RR
British Open	Tournament Not Held								4R
Northern Ireland Open	Not Held			A	A	1R	2R	1R	LQ
English Open	Not Held			A	LQ	1R	2R	3R	1R
UK Championship	A	1R	1R	A	A	3R	1R	3R	2R
Scottish Open	Not Held			A	A	1R	3R	2R	LQ
World Grand Prix	NH	NR	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Shoot-Out	Non-Ranking Event			A	A	1R	1R	1R
German Masters	A	LQ	LQ	A	A	LQ	LQ	QF	LQ
Players Championship^{[nb 4]}	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
European Masters	Not Held			A	A	LQ	LQ	3R	LQ
Welsh Open	A	1R	1R	A	A	SF	1R	3R
	Tournament Not Held
Gibraltar Open	Not Held		MR	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R
Tour Championship	Tournament Not Held					DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
World Championship	A	LQ	LQ	A	A	LQ	LQ	LQ
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic	A	1R	Tournament Not Held
Australian Goldfields Open	A	LQ	LQ	Tournament Not Held
Shanghai Masters	A	LQ	LQ	A	A	Non-Rank.		Not Held
Paul Hunter Classic	Minor-Ranking			A	3R	3R	NR	Not Held
Indian Open	A	LQ	NH	A	A	LQ	Not Held
China Open	A	1R	A	A	A	2R	Not Held
Riga Masters^{[nb 5]}	NH	MR		A	A	2R	WD	Not Held
International Championship	A	LQ	LQ	A	A	LQ	LQ	Not Held
China Championship	Not Held			NR	A	LQ	1R	Not Held
World Open^{[nb 6]}	A	Not Held		A	A	LQ	LQ	Not Held
WST Pro Series	Tournament Not Held							RR	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 He was an amateur.
^ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
^ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2011/2012–2012/2013) and the Players Championship Grand Final (2013/2014—2015/2016)
^ The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)
^ The event was called the Haikou World Open (2013/2014)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Winner	1.	2018	English Amateur Championship	Andrew Norman	10–3