Mark Allen (snooker player)
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Mark Allen of Northern Ireland is the 2005 World Amateur Snooker Champion. For 2005/2006 he turned professional, reaching the last 32 of the UK Championship and the Welsh Open, losing 5-2 to the then professional World Champion Shaun Murphy, after leading 2-0 in the latter. He also got to the final qualifying round of the World Championship, losing to Andy Hicks.
In March 2007 he qualified for the World Championship for the first time, beating Robert Milkins 10-4, having already defeated Jamie Cope in an earlier qualifier.
His partner is the ladies' World Number 1 Reanne Evans, who he says has only beaten him once in practice [1].
He is not to be confused with the early 90s professional Mark Johnstone-Allen.
