Birthday: 1986.2.22
Residence: antrim.
Provisional ranking: 23
Rank in recent five seasons: 62-UR-UR-UR.
Career began in 2003.
Best record: before the 2007 World Championships 16.
Last season's bonus: 20975.
Total professional bonus: 23460.
Maximum score of single shot: 139 -2005 British Championship
Brilliant record
Allen, who made his professional snooker debut in 2005/06 season, proved his potential in snooker with his outstanding performance.
Allen started his career with a wild card at the Northern Ireland Snooker Open at the beginning of the season. He beat John Higgins and Steve Davis OBE in succession at home, but lost to Hendry in the third round.
Allen's performance in the points match was equally excellent. He broke into the top 32 in the British championship, when he lost to Davis. He lost to shaun murphy in other cups.
Last year, Allen was only three games away from entering Crucible. At that time, he was ahead of Andy Hicks 7-4 in the final round of qualifying, but in the end he was reversed by his opponent 10-7.
After the end of last season, Allen ranked 62nd in the world, but now he has made great efforts to upgrade his ranking to the top 32nd.
Perhaps Allen is regarded as the most talented snooker player in Northern Ireland after dennis taylor and alex higgins. He won three amateur championships before becoming a professional player.
In 2004, Allen defeated Alex Borg in the Austrian European Championship and won the championship. Then he defeated Steve Mifsud with 1 1-6 in the IBSF world amateur snooker championship held in the Netherlands and won the championship trophy. Allen dedicated all his victories to his parents, who even sold their house to support his son's career.
In 2005, Allen won the European1Under-9 Championship in Russia, when he beat Chris Nobili 6-5 in the final.
In addition, Allen also won the championship in Northern Ireland in 65,438+04,65,438+06 and 65,438+09.
Allen's wife is Renee Evans, the first snooker woman in the world. Their first child, Lao Ren, was born in May 2006. Allen admitted that he and Evans often had fierce matches on the training platform: "We often played quite close, but she was only beaten by me once."