Les Dodd

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Les Dodd
Born (1954-02-11) 11 February 1954 (age 70) [1]
Southport
Sport countryFlag of England.svg  England
Professional1982–1997, 1998/1999
Highest ranking 36 (1983–1984)
Best ranking finishQuarter-final (x2)

Les Dodd (born 11 February 1954) is an English former professional snooker player. He was runner-up in the 1987 English Professional Championship.

Career

Dodd was born on 11 February 1954 in Southport, and turned professional in 1982. [2] In his first professional season, he reached the televised stages of the 1983 World Snooker Championship, where he lost 7–10 to Eddie Charlton. [2]

Dodd's only professional final was the 1987 English Professional Championship; there, he was defeated 9–5 by Tony Meo, having earlier eliminated Tony Knowles, Barry West, Mike Hallett and reigning World Champion Joe Johnson. [2] [1]

He reached the quarter-finals of two ranking events in 1990; the British Open, where he lost 2–5 to Steve James, and the Asian Open, where Mike Hallett beat him 5–4. [1]

Dodd was ranked 121st in the world at the end of the 1996–97 season, and dropped off the professional tour. [3] He regained his status for the 1998–99 season, but lost it again immediately thereafter. [1] [4] The highest world ranking that he attained in his career was 36th, in the 1983–84 snooker world rankings. [5]

In the 2012 World Seniors Championship, Dodd defeated Andrew Milliard 2–0, Bill Oliver 2–0 and Steve Meakin 2–1 to qualify for the last 16, [6] but fell at this stage 0–2 to Alain Robidoux. [7] He failed to qualify in 2013, losing in the last round to Philip Williams, [8] and entered again in 2015 and 2016, again losing in the last round of qualifying on both occasions; John Welsh defeated him 2–0 in 2015, and he lost by the same scoreline to Robert Milkins in the 2016 edition. [9] [10]

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