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Aaron Hill is the 2020 European U18 Snooker Champion
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Irishman Aaron Hill kept his 2019 U18 European Snooker crown in this year’s Championship played in Albufeira/Portugal by beating the Englishman Sean Maddocks 4-1 in the Final tonight.
Aged 18, Hill repeats the achievement of Welshman Jackson Page, U18 European Snooker Champion in 2017 and 2018.
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EBSA chairman Maxime Cassis revealed that Aaron Hill won an invitation to play World Snooker Championship qualifying rounds next April in Sheffield with the professionals.
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The Dean Thomas Trophy stays in the very same hands as in 2019 after a nearly two hours match where Aaron managed to overcame an opponent who has defeated him 4-0 at the WSF Open played in Malta in January.
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Congratulations to Aaron Hill and Ireland for getting the first snooker European of four titles to be awarded in Portuguese soil in this 2020 EBSA European Snooker Championships.