The winner of the 2002 World Snooker Championship, Ebdon won nine world ranking events, placing twelfth on the all-time list of ranking tournament winners.
29 Facts About Peter Ebdon
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Peter Ebdon won his first professional event at the 1993 Grand Prix and reached the elite top 16 players in the world rankings in 1995.
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Peter Ebdon reached a third World Championship final in 2006, losing to Graeme Dott.
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Peter Ebdon continued in the top 16 until 2011, reaching the last of his 18 ranking event finals at the 2018 Paul Hunter Classic.
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On 30 April 2020, Peter Ebdon announced his retirement from the game citing a neck injury after being a professional for 29 seasons.
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Peter Ebdon rose the world rankings to be in the elite top 16 in 1995, and his career-highest place of third in 1996.
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Peter Ebdon again reached world number three status at the close of the 2002 season.
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Six years after his first World Championship final, Peter Ebdon defeated Michael Judge, Joe Perry, Anthony Hamilton and Matthew Stevens to reach the final again at the 2002 World Snooker Championship.
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Peter Ebdon reached the final for a third time at the 2006 World Snooker Championship, where he played Graeme Dott.
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Peter Ebdon became only the ninth player to win both the World and UK championships.
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Peter Ebdon's shot times were markedly quicker, which served him well in defeating the defending champion Ding Junhui and John Higgins en route to the final, gaining eight century breaks over the course of the tournament, but failed to reach a ranking quarter-final the next year in 2007.
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At the start of the 2010 season Peter Ebdon issued a statement announcing that he would not be able to play to the best of his ability.
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Peter Ebdon missed the Masters for the first time since 1992, due to being ranked outside of the top 16.
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Peter Ebdon finished 98th in the Order of Merit and these results contributed to Ebdon being ranked world number 28 in March 2012.
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The match against Ding Junhui caused some controversy as Peter Ebdon had taken an average of 32 seconds a shot in a nine frame encounter lasting almost 5 hours.
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Peter Ebdon lost in the first round of the Shanghai Masters, but continued his good start to the season at the inaugural International Championship.
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Peter Ebdon received a bye through the first round as Stephen Lee had been suspended due to match-fixing allegations, and only conceded one frame in beating Stephen Maguire and Ricky Walden to advance to the semi-finals.
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Peter Ebdon fell 10 places in the end of season rankings to world number 30.
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Peter Ebdon ended the season outside the top 32 in the world rankings for the first time since 1992, as he was ranked 40th.
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Peter Ebdon appeared in his last ranking event final at the 2018 Paul Hunter Classic.
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Peter Ebdon announced his retirement from the sport on 30 April 2020, citing neck injuries.
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Peter Ebdon made the same mistake in the final of the 2012 Australian Goldfields Open and again in the 2015 Indian Open.
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Peter Ebdon instituted a strict fitness regime to be fit for snooker, including swimming one mile every day.
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Peter Ebdon is a devotee of Napoleon Hill's motivational book Think and Grow Rich.
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Peter Ebdon was criticised by other players on the professional circuit for his exuberant outpourings of emotion after winning important frames or matches, with Ronnie O'Sullivan calling him a 'psycho'.
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Peter Ebdon was born in the Islington district of London, and later moved to Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
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On 22 January 2009, it was revealed that Peter Ebdon had split from his wife by mutual consent.
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In 2018, Peter Ebdon became a professional 'Healer' at The College of Healing in Malvern, Worcestershire, England.
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Peter Ebdon is involved with sourcing mares for stallion Harbour Law at the Batsford Stud in Gloucestershire.