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David Gilbert
D.O.B. 12 Jun 1981
Lives Tamworth, Staffordshire
Last 5 Seasons51-43-45-67-90
Turned Pro 2001
Best Ranking Performance Last 16 - Welsh Open 2009
Last season World Snooker Tour prize money
£11,425
Highest Tournament Break 135 - World Championship 2006
Gilbert made a strong start to the 2009/10 season, reaching the last 48 of both the Roewe Shanghai Masters and the Grand Prix.
He beat Brendan O'Donoghue and Alan McManus to make it to Shanghai, before being beaten by home favourite Liang Wenbo.
In the Grand Prix he knocked out Stephen Rowlings and Anthony Hamilton but was denied a place at the venue by Stuart Bingham.
The rest of the season didn't go to plan for the Staffordshire cueman, as he won just two matches in the last four ranking events, and slipped four places to No 55.
One of his finest hours was reaching the televised stages of the World Championship in 2007. "I can’t wait to play there," he said. "I was supposed to be working with my dad on a farm for the next six weeks. It was potato planting, 16-18 hours a day. But I’ll give that a miss now because I want to practise hard between now and the Crucible to give it my best shot.”
He played Stephen Hendry at the Crucible, and led 5-1, but eventually lost 10-7.
He reached the last 16 of a ranking event for the first time at the 2009 Welsh Open. After beating David Roe he convincingly saw off home favourite Mark Williams 5-1 with runs of 66, 131, 58 and 115. The Tamworth player then accounted for Joe Perry before losing to Mark Selby.
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