Florian Nüßle (born 18 December 2001) is an Austrian

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player from

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. In 2017, aged 16, he became his country's youngest national snooker champion.

Career

National tournaments

Florian Nüßle became interested in snooker as a child and played pool with a standing aid when he was five years old. He also played football in his youth for five years for SK Sturm Graz and golf, but ultimately opted for snooker. After obtaining his secondary school certificate he went to the UK with the aim of becoming a professional player. He first participated in the Austrian national youth championships in 2007, and won his first national title in the under16 age group at the age of 13, defending his title in the following two years. In 2015 he won the under21 title and defended it in the years that followed. At 16, he became the youngest player to win the national championship when he won the Austrian National Championship. He also became ranked as Austrian number one that season. In 2018 he played in the final, winning 5–2.

International tournaments

After his first national youth title, he played in the

EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships The EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships is the premier amateur junior snooker tournament in Europe. The event series is sanctioned by the European Billiards & Snooker Association. It took place first in 1997 and is held annually since the ...

and IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship. At the 2017 event, he reached the quarter-finals of the under-21 event. He also entered the IBSF World Snooker Championship that year, reaching the semi-finals losing to eventual champion Pankaj Advani 4–7. From 2017, he competed in the annual pro-am Paul Hunter Classic (PHC), an amateur tournament from the World Snooker Tour. He would defeat professional player Elliot Slessor during the 2018 event.

Performance and rankings timeline

Career finals

Amateur finals: 8 (5 titles)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nüßle, Florian 2001 births Austrian snooker players Living people Sportspeople from Graz 21st-century Austrian people