Steve Campbell (born 7 March 1966) is an English former professional

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player.

Career

Campbell turned professional through the 1988 Professional Play-offs, where he won his qualifying match 10–1 against Canadian Paul Thornley. His first match as a professional was a 4–5 International Open defeat to seventy-five-year-old Fred Davis, but he reached the last 64 at the 1988 Canadian Masters - losing 2–5 to

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- and the same stage of the 1989 Classic, where

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beat him 5–3. The following season, Campbell lost 5–0 to

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in the Grand Prix, but came within one round of qualifying for the main stages of the World Championship, at the

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, for the first time. He beat

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of Australia 10–2,

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10–6 and

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10–7, but lost 7–10 to

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in the last 48. Campbell recorded his first run to the last 32 at a ranking event in 1990, at the Asian Open; there, he beat Gary Natale, Jim Chambers and Gary Wilkinson before losing 1–5 to

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. He bettered this with a last-16 finish in the 1992 edition, where he overcame Jason Ferguson, John Campbell, Wilkinson and

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, but lost 2–5 to

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. Having reached a career-high ranking of 65th for the 1992/1993 season, Campbell's form dipped sharply thereafter; his most profitable performance was a last-64 finish at the 1993 UK Championship, where

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defeated him 9–6. Following a 3–5 loss to Malaysian Sam Chong in the 1995 British Open, Campbell did not enter that year's World Championship. Having begun 1994/1995 ranked 106th, he was relegated from the tour at its conclusion, aged 29.

References

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