Patrick Barrie

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Patrick Barrie is a British tiddlywinks player. He has won nine World Singles matches, most recently in October 2019, making him (as of July 2020) the current World Singles champion.[1] He has won seven World Pairs matches, and along with Harley Jones is the current champion (again as of July 2020).[1]

Barrie started playing tiddlywinks in 1984 as an undergraduate at Cambridge University,[2][3] where he is a senior lecturer in chemical engineering.[4] He has a long rivalry with American player Larry Kahn,[2][3] with the Los Angeles Times describing them as "the Nadal and Djokovic of their game".[5] The pair have played 11 World Singles matches, with Barrie winning three, and six World Pairs matches (with various partners) with three wins apiece.[1]

He has also won the English Tiddlywinks Association (ETwA) Singles (English national championship) ten times and the ETwA Pairs nine times.[1] His tiddlywinks exploits have seen him sponsored by a whisky distillery, with his image appearing on some of their bottles.[2][6]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Major Tiddlywinks Championships". www.etwa.org. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "England's tiddlywinks grandmaster comes from behind to set himself up for unifying bout". inews.co.uk. 5 November 2018. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "How does it feel... To be a Tiddlywinks grandmaster". cityam.com. 23 April 2013. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Dr Patrick Barrie | Fellows | Contact | Emmanuel College, Cambridge". www.emma.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  5. ^ "They are the Nadal and Djokovic of their game, but that game is tiddlywinks". Los Angeles Times. 26 December 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  6. ^ "The week in pictures". 7 April 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
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