Tony Chappel

Tony Chappel (born 28 May 1960) is a former Welsh professional snooker player, whose career spanned seventeen years from 1984 to 2001.

Career
Tony Chappel was born in Wales, on 28 May 1960. He started playing snooker aged 14. He reached the final of the 1974 Welsh Boys' Championship, won the title in 1976, and retained it in 1977. He was also runner-up in the Welsh Youth Championship in 1977. In 1982 he became an "apprentice professional" employed by the Mackworth Billiards company, where he was coached by Terry Griffiths, the 1979 World Snooker Champion. That year, he defeated professional Cliff Wilson in the final of a pro-am tournament at Ealing Snooker Centre.

Chappel was accepted by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association as a professional player in 1984. Some of the players he defeated during his career include: Steve Davis, Terry Griffiths, John Parrott, Stephen Hendry, Alan McManus, Stephen Lee and Ken Doherty. His best finish was one semi-final appearance, at the 1990 Asian Open, where he lost just 5–6, to Dennis Taylor. He also reached the quarter-finals and last 16 of other tournaments throughout his career, his last run to this stage of an event being the last 16 of the 1997 Welsh Open.

He qualified for the main stage of the World Snooker Championship in 1990, losing 4–10 to Tony Knowles in the last 32.

He was relegated from the professional tour after finishing 115th in the rankings at the end of the 2000/01 snooker season. In April 2013 Chappel took part in the preliminary qualifiers for the 2013 World Snooker Championship. He beat David Singh 5–2 in the second round. but then lost 5–1 to Patrick Wallace in the third round.