Billy Castle

Billy Joe 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)
Current ranking	(as of 16 December 2024)
Best ranking finish	Last 16 (2017 European Masters, 2018 Paul Hunter Classic, 2020 Snooker Shoot Out)

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

Career

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
Scottish Open	NH	1R	3R	2R	1R	A
World Grand Prix	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Shoot-Out	NR	3R	2R	4R	1R
German Masters	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	A
Players Championship	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
European Masters	NH	3R	LQ	LQ	1R	A
Welsh Open	A	1R	2R	2R	1R
Turkish Masters	Tournament Not Held
Gibraltar Open	MR	1R	2R	1R	1R
Tour Championship	Not Held		DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
World Championship	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ
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.
VF / Variant Format Event				means an event is/was a variant format 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

^ "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.