Dave Martin (snooker player) the quarter-finals of the Mercantile Credit Classic in 1988, beating Doug Mountjoy 5-4, and Jimmy White 5-2, before losing 1-5 against Tony Knowles. His last appearance in the main stages of a tournament came at the 1992 UK Open, where he lost in the first round 3-9 to Jimmy White. Dave Martin (snooker player) Dave Martin (born 9 May 1948) is a retired English snooker player. Martin turned professional in 1980 by beating Eugene Hughes 9–6 in the final of the 1980 Professional Ticket Event, and reached the first round of the World Championship the same season, losing 4-10 to
Doug Mountjoy United Arab Emirates snooker association between 1997 and 1999. Mountjoy was brought up just outside Ebbw Vale and worked for some years as a coal miner. A well-known player in the valleys as a youth and young man, he won many amateur tournaments including two Welsh Amateur titles and the World Amateur title in 1976, for which he beat Paul Mifsud 11–1. After the World Amateur victory he turned professional, at the age of 34. Mountjoy's first success was as a late replacement in the 1977 Masters at the New London Theatre, his first professional tournament. He beat former world