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Nigel Bond

The 2009/10 season was a disappointing one for Bond as he slipped nine places down the ranking list to No 38.

He lost his opening match in three of the six ranking events and reached the last 16 of just one. That was the Sanyuan Foods China Open in Beijing, where he shcoked Shaun Murphy 5-2 in the first round before losing 5-3 to Marco Fu.

Bond did enjoy a boost when he won the qualifying event for the World Seniors Championship, beating Peter Lines in the final. That put him through to the main event, to be staged in November 2010 in Bradford. 

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.

An accounts clerk for Derbyshire County Council before he started his snooker career, Bond lives at number 147 in his road in Old Tupton.
 

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