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Tom Ford

Ford dropped one position in the rankings to No 49 at the end of the 2008/09 season.
He showed good promise early on by qualifying for the Roewe Shanghai Masters with victories over Andrew Norman and Stephen Lee. He then saw off the challenge of Yu Delu in the wildcard round, having trailed 4-3 he came back with breaks of 78 and 77 to clinch the win.
In the first round he faced John Higgins, and despite pulling the score back to 4-4 from 4-2 down with runs of 55 and 100, he lost the decider.
He did reach the last 48 of three of the remaining six events but lost in the first round in the others to end the season with a real mix of results.
Undoubtedly the highlight of Ford’s 2007/08 season was making the first competitive maximum break of his career. He did so at the Royal London Watches Grand Prix, during a 4-0 defeat of Steve Davis which also included breaks of 122 and 117. Even more remakably, Ford had been hospitalised with gastroenteritis in the early hours of the morning, but discharged himself because he was determined to take on Davis.
"I would have been happy to make a 50 break today because I could hardly cue up when I got to the venue," he said. "I’d only had half an hour of sleep all night. So to make a 147 is unbelievable."
Ford had topped his qualifying group in that tournament with six wins out of seven matches, but in Aberdeen he just failed to progress to the last 16.
The Leicester player also took Ronnie O’Sullivan to the wire in the last 32 of the Northern Ireland Trophy. Ford led 3-1 and 4-2 but the Rocket reeled off the final three frames to edge through.
Ford’s best display in 2006/07 was a run to the last 16 of the Malta Cup.
Wins over Rory McLeod and Andy Hicks booked him his ticket to Malta where he edged out Anthony Hamilton 5-4 before losing 5-3 to Graeme Dott.
Ford’s best ranking event placing was achieved in Malta in 2005 when he beat Ken Doherty to reach the quarter-finals, where his run was ended by Stephen Hendry.
English under-15 champion at the age of 13, Ford beat Bristol’s Judd Trump 5-1 in the final of the 2001 English under-18 Championship.

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