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Billy Castle
	Castle at the 2017 Paul Hunter Classic
Born	14 July 1992 (age 32); Marchwood, Hampshire, England
Sport country	England
Professional	2017–2021
Highest ranking	88 (June 2018)
Best ranking finish	Quarter-final (2022 Snooker Shoot Out)

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Billy Joe Castle (born 14 July 1992 in Marchwood, Hampshire) is an English professional snooker player.

In May 2017, Castle came through Q-School by winning six matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons.^[1] Prior to this Castle appeared in the 2015 English Amateur Championship final, losing 6–10 to Michael Rhodes.^[2] In 2017 he won the tournament by defeating David Lilley 10–8.^[3]^[4]

Tournament	2015/ 16	2017/ 18	2018/ 19	2019/ 20	2020/ 21	2021/ 22
Ranking^[5]^{[nb 1]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 3]}	88	^{[nb 4]}	86	^{[nb 2]}
Ranking tournaments
Championship League	Non-Ranking Event				RR	RR
British Open	Tournament Not Held					A
Northern Ireland Open	NH	2R	3R	3R	1R	A
English Open	NH	1R	1R	1R	1R	A
UK Championship	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	A
Scottish Open	NH	1R	3R	2R	1R	A
World Grand Prix	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Shoot Out	NR	3R	2R	4R	1R	QF
German Masters	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	A
Players Championship	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
European Masters	NH	3R	LQ	LQ	1R	A
Welsh Open	A	1R	2R	2R	1R	A
Gibraltar Open	MR	1R	2R	1R	1R	WD
Tour Championship	Not Held		DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
World Championship	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	A
Former ranking tournaments
Australian Goldfields Open	LQ	Tournament Not Held
Shanghai Masters	A	LQ	Non-Ranking		Not Held
Paul Hunter Classic	MR	1R	4R	NR	Not Held
Indian Open	NH	LQ	LQ	Tournament Not Held
China Open	A	LQ	LQ	Tournament Not Held
Riga Masters^{[nb 5]}	MR	LQ	LQ	LQ	Not Held
International Championship	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	Not Held
China Championship	NH	LQ	LQ	LQ	Not Held
World Open	NH	LQ	LQ	LQ	Not Held
WST Pro Series	Tournament Not Held				RR	NH
Former non-ranking tournaments
Haining Open	MR	A	A	2R	Not Held

Performance Table Legend
LQ	lost in the qualifying draw	#R	lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)	QF	lost in the quarter-finals
SF	lost in the semi-finals	F	lost in the final	W	won the tournament
DNQ	did not qualify for the tournament	A	did not participate in the tournament	WD	withdrew from the tournament

NH / Not Held				means an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Event				means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Event				means an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Event				means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	2015	English Amateur Championship	Michael Rhodes	6–10
Winner	1.	2017	English Amateur Championship	David Lilley	10–7
Winner	2.	2022	Q Tour – Event 4	Andrew Higginson	5–4

^ "Kleckers Books Tour Sport". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 19 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
^ "Castle is English Amateur Championship runner-up". cuestars.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
^ "Billy Castle crowned English Amateur Champion 2017". mysnookerstats.com.
^ @TheEASB (25 June 2017). "#EASBFinals2017 English Amateur..." (Tweet). Retrieved 2 July 2017 – via Twitter.
^ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.

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-*[http://www.worldsnooker.com/players/billy-joe-castle/ Billy Joe Castle] at ''worldsnooker.com''
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