Misplaced Pages

Jim Donnelly (snooker player)

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Scottish snooker player and coach
This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.
Find sources: "Jim Donnelly" snooker player – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Jim Donnelly
Born (1946-06-13) 13 June 1946 (age 78)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Sport country Scotland
Professional1981–1997
Highest ranking29 (1982–83)
Best ranking finishLast 16 (x1)

Jim Donnelly (born 13 June 1946) is a Scottish former professional snooker player who now coaches. He was accepted by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) as a professional in 1981.

He was seeded 29th in the world rankings for the 1982–1983 season. He played in the 1982 World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, the first Scottish professional player to do so, where he was eliminated in the first round in a match against Ray Reardon. He also reached the final of the 1987 Scottish Professional Championship, where he was defeated by a young Stephen Hendry.

Donnelly is now using his skills in snooker to provide snooker coaching lessons to people of all ages. Donnelly has pioneered the Scottish game being the first Scot to compete at the crucible and as a coach, coaching the likes of John Higgins, Alan McManus and many of the top Scottish Junior players.

References

  1. Snooker. The Glasgow Herald. 16 February 1988.
  2. "Snooker". The Guardian. 18 April 1981. p. 22.

External links


Flag of ScotlandBiography icon

This biographical article relating to sport in Scotland is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This biographical article relating to snooker in the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories:
Jim Donnelly (snooker player) Add topic