Shawn Budd

Shawn Budd, born on 2 March 1974 in Sydney, Australia, is an Australian former snooker player and pool player who has won major snooker and pool tournaments in Australia, New Zealand, England and America. He is the only Australian snooker player to have won the Australian Open Snooker, the Australian National Snooker, and the Australian nine-ball and eight-ball titles, and he also won the Oceania Snooker championships and was runner-up in the Oceania Billiards Championship in the same year. In 2002 he was a quarter-finalist at the IBSF World Billiards Championships, in 1994 he won the Valley National Open eight-ball tournament in Las Vegas against more than 5,000 entries, and in 2001 he won the Masters eight-ball event, now called the World Pool Championships.