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Nigel Bond

Bond suffered a terrible run of results during the 2008/09 season, but just did enough at the end of the campaign to retain his place among the top 32 of the official world rankings.
The Derbyshire cueman lost his opening match in the first six ranking events, before finally beating Jamie Burnett 5-1 in the Bank of Beijing China Open qualifiers.
That gave Bond a welcome confidence boost heading into the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship, and he qualified for the Crucible with a vital 10-7 defeat of Mike Dunn.
“Of all the matches I’ve won to qualify for Sheffield, I’ve never had an easy one,” he said. "It’s horrible, it makes you feel sick. I’ve had a bad season, only winning one match before this, so I wanted to finish on a high.”
Indeed he did finish on a high by causing arguably the shock of the first round at the Crucible, beating Peter Ebdon 10-5. Ryan Day ended his run with a 13-5 victory in the last 16, leaving Bond to start the 2009/10 season at No 28 on the official list but down at 42nd provisionally.
In 2006, Bond scored a sensational 10-9 defeat of Stephen Hendry in the first ever Crucible match to be decided on a respotted black.
The highlight of Bond’s career was the 1996 British Open final when he came from the ‘snookers required’ stage at 69-0 down in the deciding frame against John Higgins to steal the match and a 9-8 victory.
The previous year he reached the final on the biggest stage of all but on that occasion he was no match for Hendry at the Crucible, losing 18-9.
The Manchester City fan also won the Scottish Masters in 1997.
 

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