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Mario Morra (born 8 September 1953) is a Canadian professional
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player and former professional
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. He reached the tournament finals of the 1984 Canadian Professional Championship, the 2008 Canadian
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championship, and the 2010 Canadian
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championship.


Career

Morra became a snooker professional in 1979 and had limited success although he defeated both
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and
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in the 1983 Jameson International Open, and, by winning three qualifying matches, reached the last 32 of the
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, where he lost 10–3 to
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. He narrowly missed joining last 32 for the
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, losing 10–9 to John Campbell. He was runner-up to
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in the 1984 Canadian Professional Championship. His highest ranking was 35, in the
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. More recently, Morra is known as a
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player, and was runner up in both the 2008 Canadian
Nine-ball Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle o ...
Championship and the 2010 Canadian
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Championship. He has a son, John Morra, with professional pool and snooker player Anita McMahon. McMahon has won 15 Canadian pool titles, and won the Canadian Women's Snooker title three times, from 2004 to 2006. John Morra is a top ranked professional pool player.
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won the 2012 Canadian
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Championship after defeating Mario Morra in the semi-final, and John Morra in the final. Pagulayan also beat Mario Morra in the early rounds of the 2016 Canadian
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Championship before defeating John Morra in the final.


Achievements

Snooker * 1984 Canadian Professional Championship runner-up *
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semi-finalist Pool *Molson Cup 2003, 3rd place *Canadian ST 2004 Stop, 3rd place *Canadian 30K Tour 2006 #14 runner-up *Canadian
Nine-ball Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle o ...
Tour 2007 #5, 3rd place *Canadian
Nine-ball Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle o ...
Tour 2007 #4, 3rd place *Canadian
Nine-ball Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle o ...
Tour 2008 #5, 3rd place *2008 Canadian Open
Nine-ball Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle o ...
Championship runner-up *2010 Canadian Open
Ten-ball Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "". Although the game has existed since the early 1960s, its popularity has risen since the early 2000s as a ...
Championship runner-up *2014 Canadian Open
Ten-ball Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "". Although the game has existed since the early 1960s, its popularity has risen since the early 2000s as a ...
Championship – 3rd place *2015 Canadian Open
Nine-ball Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle o ...
Championship – 3rd place *2018 Canadian Open
Ten-ball Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "". Although the game has existed since the early 1960s, its popularity has risen since the early 2000s as a ...
Championship – 4th place


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Morra, Mario Living people Canadian pool players Canadian snooker players 1953 births Sportspeople from Hamilton, Ontario