1. Neil Alexander Robertson was born on 11 February 1982 and is an Australian professional snooker player, who is a former world champion and former world number one.
52 Facts About Neil Robertson
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Neil Robertson is the most successful player from outside the United Kingdom and the only non-UK born player to have completed snooker's Triple Crown, having won the World Championship in 2010, the Masters in 2012 and 2022 and the UK Championship in 2013,2015 and 2020.
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Neil Robertson has claimed 25 career ranking titles and won at least one professional tournament each year between 2006 and 2022.
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Neil Robertson completed the triple crown in 2013 and was world number one on three separate occasions between 2010 and 2015.
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Neil Robertson first played snooker aged 11 at the pool club owned by his family.
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Neil Robertson started his snooker career aged 14 and was victorious in the Australian under-18 snooker championship.
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Neil Robertson dropped off the main tour, but in July 2003 he won the World Under-21 Snooker Championship in New Zealand, which earned him a spot on the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association main tour.
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Neil Robertson described his experience of playing White as being "like a rabbit in the headlights".
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Neil Robertson's first ranking event quarter-final came at the 2004 European Open, where he was beaten again by White.
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Neil Robertson beat Ronnie O'Sullivan in the quarter-finals and Alan McManus in the semi-finals to reach his first ranking final.
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Neil Robertson defeated Stephen Hendry in the last 16 and then overcame O'Sullivan in the quarter-finals.
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Neil Robertson compiled his 100th career century during the event.
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At the China Open, Neil Robertson made his first official maximum break.
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Neil Robertson was the first player from outside the UK and Ireland to win the title since Canada's Cliff Thorburn in 1980.
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Record books show that Neil Robertson was the second Australian player to win the world snooker title, however Horace Lindrum who won in 1952 is not widely regarded as a credible world champion because the sport's leading players staged a boycott that year.
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Neil Robertson became the latest player to fail to defend his first world title, supposedly a victim of the Crucible curse, where no first time winner has ever successfully defended their title at the Crucible.
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Neil Robertson beat Allen and Williams in the opening two rounds, before facing Trump in the semi-finals for the second successive major tournament.
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Neil Robertson was drawn to play Ken Doherty in the first round of the 2012 World Championship.
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Neil Robertson then reached the quarter-finals of the 2012 UK Championship to face Mark Selby.
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Neil Robertson started 2013 by attempting to defend his Masters title.
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Neil Robertson finished fifth on the PTC Order of Merit to qualify for the Tour Championship Finals.
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Neil Robertson returned to form at the China Open and won his seventh career ranking event.
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Neil Robertson finished the season ranked world number two for the second time in his career.
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In May 2013, Neil Robertson made the second official maximum break of his career in the Wuxi Classic qualifiers against Mohamed Khairy.
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At his home tournament, the Australian Goldfields Open, Neil Robertson made it past the second round for the first time in his career before continuing his run to make the final.
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Neil Robertson had the distinction of becoming the first player from outside the United Kingdom to have achieved this feat.
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In January 2014, during the Championship League, Neil Robertson reached 63 century breaks in a single professional season, breaking the previous record of 61 centuries held by Judd Trump.
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Neil Robertson extended his season's centuries to 99 in his first two 2014 World Championship matches.
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Neil Robertson missed a black on a break of 94 that would have seen him reach the 100 milestone during his win over Mark Allen.
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Neil Robertson ended the campaign as the world number three.
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Neil Robertson paid tribute to Perry's influence on his own career after the match, saying "Joe is one of my best friends on tour and if it wasn't for him I wouldn't be here today".
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Neil Robertson became the first player to make a 147 break in a Triple Crown final.
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Neil Robertson said "I am going to play a lot more aggressive and with a lot more freedom".
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Neil Robertson was runner-up to O'Sullivan in both the Players Championship and the Tour Championship.
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In October 2019, Neil Robertson forfeited his place at the 2019 World Open qualifiers after mistakenly setting his Satnav to Barnsley, Gloucestershire instead of the Barnsley Metrodome in Yorkshire, 170 miles away.
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Neil Robertson hit five centuries during the match, including a 137 break in the final frame.
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Neil Robertson made 5 centuries against Dott in the final to help secure his eighteenth ranking title win.
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Neil Robertson became the fifth player to win the triple crown event at least three times.
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Neil Robertson scored 13 centuries, a tournament record for a single UK Championship.
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Neil Robertson won his twenty fifth ranking title at the Grand Prix.
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Neil Robertson was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Ian Neil Robertson and Alison Hunter, who are both British nationals.
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Neil Robertson has a younger brother, Marc Robertson, a former snooker amateur and current professional pool player.
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Neil Robertson is based in Cambridge, England, and practises at WT's Snooker and Sporting Club in the city.
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Neil Robertson has two children with his Norwegian wife Mille Fjelldal, whom he met in 2008 and married in August 2021.
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Fjelldal had been due to give birth to the couple's first child while Neil Robertson was playing in the 2010 World Championship final, but their son Alexander was not born until a few days later.
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Neil Robertson has spoken publicly about supporting his wife through her struggles with anxiety and depression, while acknowledging how these issues affected his commitment to professional snooker.
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Neil Robertson began to pursue a plant-based diet following advice from fellow snooker professional Peter Ebdon, as well as his own research into vegan athletes.
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Neil Robertson was an avid gamer, but gave up the hobby in 2017, believing he had a video game addiction and that it was affecting his snooker form.
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Neil Robertson revealed that he sometimes stayed up all night playing them and was very tired the following day, negatively affecting his snooker practice.
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Neil Robertson described himself as "two months sober" and explained "I just get too hooked on them".
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Neil Robertson is a friend of former England and Chelsea footballer John Terry.
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On 26 January 2025, Neil Robertson was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.