Moody and his dad have relocated to the West Midlands to be near his manager’s Landywood Snooker Club. It was nice of him to say something instead of just walking straight off.” I can’t remember all of it but it was something along the lines of ‘how you doing?’, ‘good luck on tour’. People were coming up to me afterwards asking for autographs and pictures. It was good for me to get used to that environment and the pressure, I loved it. Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stan Moody chat following their match at the Six Reds World Championship (Image: Eurosport) If I qualify in England, there’ll be a few tournaments in China.
“What am I looking forward to? All of it, I love travelling to tournaments. The experience I’ll gain from getting on so young will be priceless. “I wouldn’t like to get on at 20-21 because the best years of your career are gone then. Back when I was 11 or 12, I always planned to get on this early,” he tells Daily Star Sport matter-of-factly. But now it’s sunk in, it’s something I’d always planned to do. “When it first happened, I couldn’t believe it. READ MORE: 'Ronnie O’Sullivan will thank me one day - just like Chris Eubank', insists Barry Hearn That seems like a lot for a teenager to take on board but this was always part of the plan for the fiercely focused prodigy.
That landed him a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour at the age of just 16, meaning regular matches against the likes of O’Sullivan, Mark Selby and world champion Luca Brecel. It was a holiday competition with a field of a handful of competitors, but not bad for a lad who had never previously played the game.Īt the age of 11, he had won his first tournament and, earlier this year, he played Ronnie O’Sullivan in a televised match, as well as winning the World Junior Championship in Australia. Even before he returned home to his native West Yorkshire, Moody had already collected a trophy. Then aged nine, he spotted a pool table, fancied a go and was soon potting balls with ease. Not much has fazed snooker prodigy Stan Moody ever since he first picked up a cue while on a family holiday in Spain.
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