Jack Lisowski is an English professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2010 by finishing first in the 20092010 PIOS rankings. In 2012 he qualified for five ranking tournaments, including the World Championship. In 2013 he reached the Crucible for the first time, but lost in the first round to Shaun Murphy. He is currently ranked 40th in the world and plays in the World Cup of Snooker.
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Jack Lisowski is an English professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2010 by finishing first in the 20092010 PIOS rankings. He was runner-up to Mitchell Mann in the 2007 Junior Pot Black. In 2012 he qualified for five ranking tournaments, including the World Championship. He reached his second final as a professional, losing 0–4 to Tom Ford in the final of the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals. In 2013 he reached the Crucible for the first time, but lost in the first round to Shaun Murphy. He is currently ranked 40th in the world and plays in the World Cup of Snooker. He has also played in the European Championship and World Championship finals. He currently plays for Grove Leisure in Romford, London, and is a member of the PTC. He won the first and eighth event of the International Open Series and won the Rookie of the Year Award in 2010. In 2009 he was awarded the inaugural Paul Hunter Scholarship, which would allow him to practise with professional players. At the time he was suffering from cancer, and was in remission from Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Overcoming his illness Lisowski competed in the PIOS for the 2009 2010 season. In the 20082009 season he was runner up in the sixth event of International Open series to Xiao Guodong, and finished 23rd in the rankings. His best results were in the 2011 German Masters, 2011 Welsh Open and 2011 Players Tour Championships Grand Finals, finishing 13th on the Order of Merit. He also qualified for the Shanghai Masters with wins over David Grace, Mike Dunn and Marco Fu, before defeating amateur Rouzi Maimaiti in the wildcard round. He could only win one more match in his attempts to qualify for the remaining six ranking events and finished the season ranked world number 40. Lisowski made the first 147 in competitive play of his career in his match against Chen Zhe and Joe Perry to feature in the UK Championship for his first time. He played good friend Judd Trump and made a 131 break in 5–3 win, before coming back from 2–4 down to triumph 5–4 against Mark Davis and reach his first ranking event quarter-final.
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