Andy Lee (born 27 November 1980), also known as Lee Chun Wai, is an

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and

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professional snooker player.

Career

He qualified for the main tour for the 2008–09 season by beating

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6–3 in the 2008 English Pro Ticket Tour Play-offs. In his début season, he reached the last 64 of the Royal London Watches Grand Prix, beating Lewis Roberts 5–2 and

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5–4 before losing 2–5 to

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; in the China Open, Lee beat

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and

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before losing at the same stage to

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. Having earned £5,000 in prize money, Lee finished the season ranked 83rd and was relegated from the main tour. As an amateur, Lee competed in the

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series between 2010 and 2016, without any success. He entered

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in 2018 in an attempt to win back a place on the main tour; in Event 1, he lost in the last 32, 0–4 to

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. He progressed one round further in

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, being eliminated 1–4 by

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in the last 16. At the final event, he beat

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4–2 in the quarter-finals to regain his professional status after a hiatus of nine years. Lee lost the Last 64 2018 World Open 1–5 to

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and lost the Last 128

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3–4 to English Amateur player Reggie Edwards.

Personal life

Lee was born in the

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, to parents who were emigrated from Hong Kong to the UK in 1975. His father was a Hong Kong policeman. He was educated at

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and

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Performance and rankings timeline

Career titles

Amateur snooker

*IBSF World Team Snooker Championships - 2014 *Hong Kong 6-Red Open Championship - 2011, 2013, 2017 *Hong Kong Snooker Open Championship - 2012 (Event 2), 2013 (Event 1, Event 3), 2016 (Event 2), 2017 (Event 2), 2018 (Event 1)

References

External links

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Andy Lee
at ''worldsnooker.com'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Andy 1980 births Living people English snooker players People from Hinckley Sportspeople from Leicestershire Hong Kong snooker players English people of Hong Kong descent Alumni of De Montfort University