World ranking: 30
Last five seasons: 52-60-61-152-UR
Date of birth: 09-02-79
Lives: Lower Morden, Surrey
Turned professional: 1996
Best ranking event performance: Last 16 - Embassy World
Championship 2000
Last season's prize money: £30,925
Career prize money: £125,920
Highest tournament break: 140 - Embassy World Championship 1998
David Gray caused a major upset at the
2000 Embassy World Championship by knocking out Ronnie O'Sullivan in the
first round.
Gray, on only his second visit to the
Crucible, won the last three frames to complete a dramatic 10-9 victory
but was brought back down to earth by Dominic Dale in the second round
as he crashed to a 13-1 defeat.
Missed out on a place in the televised
stage last season when he was beaten 10-9 by Marcus Campbell in the
final qualifying round but did enough during the campaign to break into
the top 32 for the first time.
The Londoner became the youngest winner
of the English Amateur Championship in 1995 at the age of 16 years and
three months, beating Jimmy White's record by eight months. He also won
the Benson and Hedges Snooker Championship in 1998 to earn a wild-card
entry to the Masters at Wembley. |