{{Short description|British tiddlywinks player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Patrick Barrie''' is a British tiddlywinks player. He has won eleven World Singles matches, most recently in March 2025 by defeating defending champion Matthew Rose,<ref name=etwa_res>{{Cite web|url=http://www.etwa.org/results.html|title=Major Tiddlywinks Championships|website=www.etwa.org|access-date=10 July 2025}}</ref> making him ({{asof|April 2026|lc=yes}}) the current world champion. He has won eight World Pairs matches (most recently partnering Harley Jones), but lost the World Pairs title in April 2022 to Larry Kahn and Jon Mapley.<ref name=etwa_res />
Barrie started playing tiddlywinks in 1984 as an undergraduate at Cambridge University,<ref name=inews>{{Cite web|url=https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/people/tiddlywinks-grandmaster-world-champion-cambridge-university-225360|date=5 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331054603/https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/people/tiddlywinks-grandmaster-world-champion-cambridge-university/|archive-date=31 March 2019|title=England's tiddlywinks grandmaster comes from behind to set himself up for unifying bout|website=inews.co.uk|access-date=2019-12-31}}</ref><ref name=cityam>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cityam.com/article/how-does-it-feel-be-tiddlywinks-grandmaster|date=23 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509190835/http://www.cityam.com/article/how-does-it-feel-be-tiddlywinks-grandmaster|archive-date=9 May 2013|url-status=dead|title=How does it feel... To be a Tiddlywinks grandmaster|website=cityam.com}}</ref> where he is a senior lecturer in chemical engineering.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/contact/fellows/?id=147|title=Dr Patrick Barrie {{!}} Fellows {{!}} Contact {{!}} Emmanuel College, Cambridge|website=www.emma.cam.ac.uk|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref> He has a long rivalry with American player Larry Kahn,<ref name=inews/><ref name=cityam/> with the ''Los Angeles Times'' describing them as "the Nadal and Djokovic of their game".<ref name=LAT>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-26/tiddlywinks-world-championship-cambridge|title=They are the Nadal and Djokovic of their game, but that game is tiddlywinks|date=26 December 2020|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref> The pair have played 11 World Singles matches, with Barrie winning three, and eight World Pairs matches (each with various partners) with four wins apiece.<ref name=etwa_res/>
He has also won the English Tiddlywinks Association (ETwA) Singles (English national championship) twelve times and the ETwA Pairs nine times.<ref name=etwa_res/> His tiddlywinks exploits have seen him sponsored by a whisky distillery, with his image appearing on some of their bottles.<ref name=inews /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2017/04/the-week-in-pictures-163/9/|title=The week in pictures|date=7 April 2017|language=en-US|access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref>
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