06/03/2026
Remembering Frank Callan (1923-2016)
“Technique should be flexible in order to suit an individual player, rather than moulding the body unnaturally to a preconceived technique”. (F. Callan)
"Callan advised Steve Davis, and was a coach to many players including Terry Griffiths, John Parrott, Allison Fisher, Doug Mountjoy and Stephen Hendry.
He was sometimes described in the press as a coach to Steve Davis, but Davis maintained that his own father, Bill Davis, was his coach, and Callan was an adviser.
Hendry had worked with Callan, but stopped from the end of the 1997–98 snooker season until February 1999.
After winning a record seventh World Snooker Championship in May 1999, Hendry acknowledged Callan's help, saying "I've had help from all kinds of people this season but he is the man for me. He knows my game inside out ...
There have been times in matches here where I've not played well but then gone into the interval and Frank has said one thing and it's made all the difference."
Read more: ⤵️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Callan
https://greenbaize1972.com/the-father-of
Special thanks again to The Snooker Quiz!
