(1976-03-06) 6 March 1976 (age 48) Bedminster Down, Bristol, England
Sport country
England
Nickname
The Milkman[1]
Professional
1995–present
Highest ranking
12 (February 2014 and June 2023)[2]
Current ranking
17 (as of 7 May 2024)
Maximum breaks
3
Century breaks
194 (as of 26 June 2024)
Tournament wins
Ranking
2
Robert Milkins (born 6 March 1976) is an English professional snooker player known for quick play. Milkins has been a member of snooker's main tour since regaining a tour card in 1998.
Milkins reached a career high rank of 12 in 2014 and 2023, and has been in and around the world's top 32 for two decades. At age 46, after 27 years as a professional, he won his first ranking title at the 2022 Gibraltar Open, becoming the oldest first-time winner of a ranking event since Doug Mountjoy at the 1988 UK Championship.[3] He won his second ranking title at the 2023 Welsh Open, where he also secured the BetVictor Series bonus of £150,000 for winning the most cumulative prize money across the series' eight events.[4]
^"Robert Milkins". World Snooker Tour. Archived from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
^"World Rankings after Gdynia Open (ET8) 2014" (PDF). World Snooker. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
^"Milkins Rules The Rock With First Ranking Crown". World Snooker. 26 March 2022. Archived from the original on 26 March 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
^"Bob Bonanza: Milkins Wins Title And Bonus". World Snooker. 19 February 2023. Archived from the original on 19 February 2023. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
RobertMilkins (born 6 March 1976) is an English professional snooker player known for quick play. Milkins has been a member of snooker's main tour since...
frames. The match between Mark Williams and RobertMilkins was level at 2–2 after four close frames. Milkins won the next two frames with breaks of 74 and...
struggling Milkins to reach quarters". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024. Retrieved 26 April 2024. "Gilbert completes Milkins rout"....
95 and 134. Milkins won three consecutive frames to lead 5–4, including making a 120 century. Murphy forced a deciding frame, but Milkins secured a 6–5...
85 for a 3–1 lead over RobertMilkins. Milkins attempted a maximum break in the fifth frame, but missed the last red. Milkins made further breaks of 99...
matches between RobertMilkins and Joe Perry and between Mark Allen and Fan Zhengyi. One protester climbed onto the table where Milkins was playing Perry...
against Ali Carter. In November, he won the Ruhr Open by defeating RobertMilkins 4–0 in the final. In the second frame of this match, he achieved the...
ranking final of the season at the Gibraltar Open where he lost 2–4 to RobertMilkins. At the World Championship, Wilson defeated Ding Junhui 10–8 in the...
original on 16 January 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2012. "Maximum glory for Milkins". World Snooker Tour. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012. Retrieved...
breaks of 113, 81, 115, and 80 to defeat Pagett 5–1. Ryan Day beat RobertMilkins 5–1. The 67th seed Leclercq defeated the 39th seed Jordan Brown 5–1...
best-of-25 frames held over up to three sessions. O'Sullivan defeated RobertMilkins 13–2 in only two sessions. When the third session was scheduled to be...
was 6–3 up after the first session and went on to win the match 10–5. RobertMilkins defeated world number 10 Neil Robertson 10–5. Jack Lisowski defeated...
frames of his rescheduled tie with Milkins and finished the session 7–2 ahead. However, when the match resumed, Milkins won seven of the first eight frames...
stages at the Crucible Theatre for the first time. He defeated Murphy, RobertMilkins, and Anthony McGill as he progressed to the semi-finals, becoming the...
McManus. Higgins recorded seven breaks over 50 in a 10–5 victory over RobertMilkins. McGill led Maguire 9–5, and took the deciding frame with a break of...
as the quarter-finals: at the 2005 Welsh Open, where he whitewashed RobertMilkins 5–0 in the first round, then went on to beat both Jimmy White and John...
against Graeme Dott, and withdrew from the German Masters after defeating RobertMilkins 5–3 in round one, to return home due to the deteriorating health of...
Shaun Murphy and RobertMilkins met in the third opening round match, a rematch of the Welsh Open final, which was won by Milkins. Milkins took the early...