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Name: David Morris

DOB: November 27th, 1988

Nationality: Irish

Turned Pro: 2006

Highest Ranking: #58 (2009/10)

Current Ranking: #59

Highest Break: 141 (2007 World Championship)

Career Highlights: 2004-6 Irish National Champion, multiple tournament winner at junior level, 2007 UK Championships, 2008 Shanghai Masters & Bahrain Championship last 48

Junior Career

There are a few good players in the junior ranks but you will have to look hard to find many with a better record than young Irishman David (or Davey as he is referred to on his official website) Morris. At national level he is a winner at under-14, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 21 level, as well as at senior level three times (becoming the youngest winner of that event in 2004).

Internationally he made the last 16 of the European under-19′s Championship as a 14 year-old, repeating the feat a year later before making the quarter-finals in 2004. That year he also entered the European Championships where he made the last 32, as well as the tournament high break of 139, exceptional for a 16-year-old. In his last few big results before turning pro, he reached the last 16 of the IBSF World under-21 Championship in Thailand before losing out in the semi-finals of the European Championship in 2005 to Alex Borg.

Going Pro

Though this defeat prevented him from making his tour debut in 2005/6, he was not to be denied a year later and received the Irish national nomination for promotion to the tour for 2006/7. As with many youngsters, his first season was to be a learning experience, though crucially good runs in the UK and World Championships ensured that he kept his spot on the tour for the following season.

2007/8 was a similar story as though his season was unspectacular in the main, he peaked at one of the biggest tournaments of the year as he made the last 48 of the UK Championship qualifiers in Sheffield. Having defeated Kevin van Hove, Rod Lawler and Rory McLeod though, he was hammered 9-2 by Preston’s Ian McCulloch in his next match, though he had at least secured another season on the main tour in 2008/9.

2008/9

At barely 18 years of age, his start to the 2008/9 season was been encouraging as he has reached the last 48 of two events early on and suffered just three round one exits as the season progressed.

Having seen off James McBain in his first World Championship qualifier, he then gave 2008 quarter-finalist Liang Wenbo a real challenge before eventually going down 10-8. Still, it was another positive season on the whole and he moved up to a career high ranking of 58 at the end of the season.

2009/10

The following season however was a tough one for David as he lost three of his six opening matches played, including one against Tony Drago at the Shanghai Masters from a strong 4-1 position.

His best results were runs to the final qualifying round of firstly the Grand Prix, and also the end of season World Championship. There he managed to defeat Mei Xiwen and Jamie Burnett before succumbing to Nottingham”s Michael Holt.