Julian Snow (born 16 June 1964) is a champion amateur

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player. Snow learned to play the sport as a pupil at

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. He has won 19 British Amateur Singles Championships (1987–1989, 1991–2005, 2012), eclipsing Howard Angus' previous record of 16 wins. He also won the Field Trophy with Leamington in 2020, 8 national Open titles: 4 British Opens (

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1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

), 2 US Opens (1996,1997),

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(1992), and

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(1992), as well as 15 Open doubles titles (6 US, 4 French, 3 Aus, 2 British) between 1985 & 2015. He was ranked No. 1 in the world from November 1992 to October 1993, and won the inaugural World Championship Doubles with American professional Tim Chisholm in 2001 at the Burroughs Club,

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in north

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. Julian Snow challenged for the

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four times, reaching the challenge round in

when he lost 7 sets to 4 to

Robert Fahey Robert Leo Fahey (born 30 April 1968, in Hobart, Tasmania), nicknamed "Bag", is an Australian real tennis player and the former World Champion of the sport, holding the title from 16 March 1994 to 21 May 2016 and again from 28 April 2018 to ...

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. He has worked as futures trader and as a full-time gambler betting on horseracing. In 2005 he moved to

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to study law at the

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. He signed the Bar Roll in Victoria, to practise as a barrister, on 22 May 2008.

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