Mark Kings Profile

April 7, 2008

Mark King became a snooker professional back in 1992, his professional career however was quite slow. Mark slowly made his way up to 89th in the world by his third season, where he reached the last 32 of the World Championships at the crucible.

By the 1995/1996 season Mark King had rised to 39th and was slowly improving. It was not until 1997 Mark made a big breakthrough and won his first ranking final in the Welsh Open impressively beating the holder Mark Williams along the way. Although Mark was heavily beaten in the final, this was a big breakthrough and pushed him to 20th.

In 2002 Mark made another Semi-final appearance in the British Open, and was regularly reaching the last 16 of ranking tournaments moving Mark to 11th in the world. Unfortunately Mark suffered a miserable next season failing to win a match in the years opening 4 events, this promoted Mark to say he hated the game and would never play it again!

However he did. Mark has enjoyed some good runs since that outburst and has moved back up to 20th in the rankings. Hopefully Mark will increase these rankings by putting in a good performance in the World Championships this year