Tony Meo

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Tony Meo

Born	October 4, 1959 (1959-10-04) (age 48)
Nationality	English
Professional	1979–1997
Highest ranking	10 (2 years)
Highest break	147
Tournament wins
Ranking	1
Non-ranking	6

Tony Meo (born 4 October 1959) is a retired English snooker player.

Meo was a schoolfriend of Jimmy White, and the pair would regularly skip school to play snooker together.^{[citation needed]} At 17 Tony became the then youngest person known to have made a 147.^{[citation needed]} He turned professional in 1979.

Meo came close to winning his first ranking tournament when he reached the final of the 1984 Lada Classic, facing Steve Davis. The match went to the deciding frame, and Meo was on what looked like the winning break when a shout from the audience disturbed him. Davis went on to win the frame and match, and used his winning speech to call for an audience ban on alcohol.

With Davis, Meo won numerous doubles titles, but his only singles ranking victory was the 1989 Anglian Windows British Open. He reached the semi-final of the World Championship in the same year.

In 1986, Meo was one of five players under Barry Hearn's management (along with Davis, Terry Griffiths, Willie Thorne and Dennis Taylor) who appeared on "Snooker Loopy", a hit single about the game by Chas and Dave.

Slipping badly down the rankings, Meo retired from the professional game in 1997.