Stan Moody

Stan Moody (born 14 September 2006)[2] is a British snooker player from Halifax, West Yorkshire.[3] In February 2023 he won the WSF World Junior Championship, and with it earned a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour starting with 2023–24 snooker season.

Stan Moody
Born (2006-09-14) 14 September 2006
Sport country England
NicknameThe Man[1]
Professional2023–

Early life

Moody, a pupil at Ryburn Valley High School in Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire, started playing snooker in 2015 after first playing pool during a family holiday.[4] From 2019, Moody began practicing snooker at Levels in Huddersfield. He won English national snooker championships at under-14, under-16 and under-18 levels.[5]

Career

Moody was told that he had a great cueing action when playing Mark Allen in an exhibition match.[6]

2021-22 season

In January 2022 Moody marked his debut ranking event match, and first televised match, with a first-round win over the top-32 player Lu Ning at the 2022 Snooker Shoot Out, held at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England.[7] The win gained Moody plaudits from the likes of Jimmy White who described him as a “serious player”,[8] and led to Moody being dubbed “a future star of the sport”.[9] Speaking after the match Moody described the experience by saying “I was a bit nervous to start with but once I had potted a few balls I felt composed, I kept my nerve… It surprised me, how bright the TV lights were. The table was amazing, quicker than what I am used it. The crowd was good”.[10] In the next round he lost to Oliver Lines in the lowest scoring shoot-out match of all time.[11] Lines called it a “nightmare draw” for him because he and Moody practise regularly together at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds.[12] In March 2022 Moody finished the season as the runner-up in the EPSB Under-21 Premier Development Tour standings to Burnley’s Lewis Ullah.[13]

2022-23 season

At the WSF Junior Snooker Championship held in Sydney, Australia in February 2023 Moody showed tremendous form, dropping just one frame in the round-robin phase of the competition with 3-0 wins over Zac Cosker and Christiano de Azevedo, and overcoming Devlen Brown 3-1. In the last 16 and quarter-finals he whitewashed Jayden Dinga and Jake Crofts 4-0. Moody defeated Ukrainian Iulian Boiko 4-3 in the semi-finals before winning the final 5-1 against Liam Pullen. With this win he was awarded a two-year place on the World Snooker Tour from the 2023–24 snooker season.[14][15] That same month Moody reached the final of the WSF Championship in Sydney where he lost to Ma Hai Long.[16][17]

He entered into the invitational 2023 Six-red World Championship held in Pathum Thani, Thailand in March 2023.[18]

Personal life

Moody paid tribute to his father Nigel who helped him as a young snooker player and “ done everything for me, paid for everything, takes me everywhere and looks after me, does the things that people don’t see…I’m very grateful.”[19] 2005 World Snooker Championship winner Shaun Murphy has been described as a mentor to Moody.[20] Murphy said he was approached by the Moody family and “I was honoured to be asked [for the mentor role] because but for the guidance of senior pros when I was that young…I might not be here now. There is huge potential there.”[21]

References
  1. "STAN IS THE MAN FOR THE ESPB AT Q SCHOOL". espb.co.uk.
  2. "Stan Moody". Eurosport.
  3. "No pressure for Moody after Halifax starlet earns World Snooker Tour spot". Halifax Courier.
  4. "Halifax schoolboy Stan Moody relishing his big break". Yorkshire Post.
  5. "STAN IS THE MAN IN SYDNEY". World Snooker Federation.
  6. "STAN IS THE MAN FOR THE ESPB AT Q SCHOOL". espb.co.uk.
  7. "'WHAT A DEBUT' - 15-YEAR-OLD STAN MOODY MAKES MEMORABLE SNOOKER SHOOT OUT DEBUT WITH WIN OVER LU NING". Eurosport.
  8. "Teen sensation Stan Moody earns plaudits from Jimmy White after Shoot Out win". Planet Sport.
  9. "15-year-old Stan Moody beats professional Lu Ning at Snooker Shoot Out". rte.ie.
  10. "Halifax teenager a 'fantastic talent' says snooker legend Jimmy White". Yorkshire Post.
  11. "STAN MOODY SLIPS TO OLIVER LINES DEFEAT IN HISTORY-MAKING MATCH AT SNOOKER SHOOT OUT AT MORNINGSIDE ARENA". Eurosport.
  12. "'Nightmare draw' ends Stan Moody's Shoot Out adventure". Yorkshire Post.
  13. "Hard work paying off for England number one snooker star Lewis Ullah". Burnley Express.
  14. "STAN MOODY EARNS SNOOKER TOUR CARD AT 16 YEARS OLD FOR NEXT TWO SEASONS AFTER WINNING WSF JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP". Eurosport.
  15. "Stan Moody wins WSF Junior Championship". snookerhq.com.
  16. "STAN MOODY DENIED BY MA HAI LONG IN WORLD AMATEUR FINAL AS TEENAGE SNOOKER DUO SECURE PROFESSIONAL TOUR CARDS". Eurosport.
  17. "MA BEATS MOODY TO WIN WSF TITLE". wst.tv.
  18. "SIX-RED WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SNOOKER 2023 - LATEST SCORES, RESULTS, SCHEDULE, ORDER OF PLAY, RONNIE O'SULLIVAN IN ACTION". Eurosport. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  19. "Stan Moody: 16-year-old from Halifax earns spot on World Snooker Tour". Yorkshire Post.
  20. "Shaun Murphy hails Moody after Halifax wonderkid earns spot on World Snooker Tour". Halifax Courier.
  21. "SHAUN MURPHY RELISHING 'DAD' AND SON MATCH WITH STAN MOODY AFTER TEENAGER EARNS WORLD SNOOKER TOUR CARD". Eurosport.
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