Wayne Jones

Early and personal life Jones started playing snooker at the age of nine. He was raised by his grandfather who encouraged his snooker playing after his mother died and his father remarried and moved away. He would play at Abertysswg Working Men’s Club, where he made his first 147 in practice in 1986. He would also practise at the Scala Snooker Club in Merthyr Tydfil. He worked as a bricklayer and landscape gardener prior to turning professional. He turned professional in 1984. He reached the final of the 1989 Classic after eliminating Jimmy White, Eugene Hughes, David Taylor, John Parrott and Willie Thorne.

He qualified for the main World Championship on four occasions. The first being in his first year as a professional, when he lost 10-4 to Jimmy White.