page_title: Rod Lawler
section_title: 2014/2015 season
hierarchical_section_title: Rod Lawler / Career / 2014/2015 season
caption_attribution_description: Rod Lawler beim Paul Hunter Classic 2016
context_page_description: Rod Lawler is an English professional snooker player. He is noted for his slow playing style, which gave rise to his nickname, "Rod the Plod".
  Since turning professional in 1990, Lawler has reached one ranking tournament final—the 1996 International Open—where he lost 3–9 to John Higgins, and won one minor-ranking tournament—Event 3 of the 2012/2013 Players Tour Championship—where he defeated Marco Fu 4–2 in the final.
  Lawler has compiled over 100 competitive century breaks during his career, including his highest, a 143, in qualifying for the 2003 World Championship.
context_section_description: Lawler qualified for the first ranking tournament of the season, the Wuxi Classic, beating Vinnie Calabrese 5–3. In the first round proper, he faced Shaun Murphy who won the match 5–1. Lawler failed to qualify for both the Shanghai Masters and the Australian Goldfields Open but then reached the semi-finals of the second Euro Tour (PTC) event, eventually losing 3–4 to Mark Allen in a deciding frame. A solid run of results followed, reaching a quarter-final in PTC4 where he eventually lost 3–4 to Robert Milkins, and also reaching the fourth round of the UK Championship where he pulled one back against Mark Allen by beating him 6–4 in the third round, eventually losing 3–6 to Judd Trump. Lawler failed to achieve another deep run in a tournament for the rest of the season, but was consistent in qualifying for the main stages of ranking tournaments, and therefore accumulated enough prize money to finish 39th on the rankings list at the end of the season.
caption: 2016 Paul Hunter Classic
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