Ian Glover (born 8 November 1978) is a former professional snooker player from Doncaster. He practises at the Jeff Cundy snooker centre in Scunthorpe and the Sheffield Star Snooker Academy. His practice partners are the club's owner Jeff Cundy, retired professional Barry West, Ben Woollaston and Stuart Carrington.
Career Glover first entered Main Tour for the 1995–96 season for the first of three seasons in the 1990s. After dropping off the tour in 1999, Glover took a hiatus from 2001 before returning to snooker in 2009, playing the secondary Pontins International Open Series tour, Glover finished the season 43rd in the Order of Merit with his best result being a quarter final defeat to Alfie Burden in the second event. Glover reached the last 16 of the 2009 Six-red World Championship, with a 5–4 win over Ricky Walden in the last 32.
For 2010–11, the PIOS was dropped and replaced by the pro-am Players Tour Championship and Glover enjoyed success in these events, with wins over former two times World Champion Mark Williams and top 32 player Marcus Campbell, wins which helped him reach the last 64 stage of Event 3 and last 32 of Event 4 respectively; however, these runs were not enough to earn him a place back on the professional tour at the end of the season and he failed to win place through the 2011 Q School also. He qualified for the main qualifying stages of the 2010 World Open. He lost 3–1 to Anthony McGill in the first qualifying round.
From 2011 to 2014 Glover continued to enter PTC events but failed to advance beyond the last 128 stage and failed to win prize money. Glover however did return to the tour in 2014 for the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons after winning a two-year card in the EBSA Play-offs beating Gareth Allen and Jamie Clarke both 4–2.
In the 2014/15 season Glover twice reached the last 32 of the PTC events (AT1 and ET1); however, in the major tournaments he failed to win a single match.
Glover began the 2015/2016 season positively, with a 5–0 victory over promising amateur Ross Higgins in the Australian Open, but lost in the next qualifying round 3–5 to Kyren Wilson. He overcame another amateur, Xu Yuan, in the Haining Open, but followed this 4–2 win with a loss to Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon in the last 64. At the UK Championship, he led Jamie Jones 4–3, but could not prevent a 4–6 defeat; his 2016 German Masters qualifying campaign ended similarly, Glover taking the first frame but losing 1–5 to the resurgent John Higgins.
Performance and rankings timeline Tournament 1995/96 1996/97 1998/99 1999/00 2000/01 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 RankingFrom the 2010/2011 season it shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.New players don't have a ranking.421He was an amateur.115 Ranking tournaments Indian Open Tournament Not HeldALQNHA World OpenThe event run under different name as Grand Prix (1995/1996–2000/2001)LQLQAAALQAAANot heldA Paul Hunter Classic Tournament Not Held Minor-Ranking2R Shanghai Masters Not HeldAAAALQLQA European MastersLQLQAAA Not HeldA International Championship Not heldAALQLQA UK ChampionshipLQLQAAAAAAA1R1RA German MastersThe event run under different name as German Open (1995/1996–1996/1997)LQLQNR Not heldAAAALQLQA Welsh OpenLQLQAAAAAAA1R1RA Gibraltar Open Tournament Not HeldMRLQ Players Championship Grand FinalThe event run under different name as Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2012/2013) Not HeldDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQ China OpenThe event run under different name as China International (1998/1999) Not HeldAAAAAAALQLQA World ChampionshipLQLQLQAAAAAALQLQA Non-ranking tournaments The MastersALQLQLQLQAAAAAAA Former ranking tournaments Asian ClassicThe event run under different name Thailand Classic (1995/1996)LQLQ Not Held Thailand Open LQ LQ A A A Not Held International OpenLQLQAAANot HeldMRNot Held British OpenLQLQAAA Not Held Wuxi Classic Not held Non-rankingAALQNot Held Australian Goldfields OpenThe event run under different name as Australian Masters (1995/1996)NR Not heldAAALQLQNH Performance Table LegendLQ 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-finalsSF lost in the semi-finalsF lost in the finalW won the tournamentDNQ did not qualify for the tournamentA did not participate in the tournamentWD withdrew from the tournamentDQ disqualified from the tournament NH / Not Held event was not held.NR / Non-Ranking Event event is/was no longer a ranking event.R / Ranking Event event is/was a ranking event.MR / Minor-Ranking Event event is/was a minor-ranking event.
References
External links Profile on worldsnooker.com
Profile on Pro Snooker Blog