Hatem Yassen ( ''Ḥātam Yāsīn''; born 21 August 1986) is a former
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
ian professional
snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ...
player. Yassen turned professional in 2015 winning the African Championship.
Note: The professional tour spells his name Hatem Yaseen.
Career
In 2015, Yassen beat fellow countryman and former professional
Mohamed Khairy
Mohamed Alaa Khairy (born 26 December 1981) is an Egyptian former professional snooker player. Khairy turned professional in 2012 after having been nominated by the African Billiards and Snooker Federation, but was relegated from the tour afte ...
6–5 in the final of the African Championship. The win gained him a two-year card on the
World Snooker Tour
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for the
2015–16 and
2016–17 seasons. He lost all six matches he played during the season and failed to pick up a frame in four of them. It was a similar story the following season as he lost all eight matches he played and he has now dropped off the tour.
Performance and rankings timeline
Career finals
Amateur finals: 1 (1 title)
References
External links
Hatem Yassen at ''CueTracker.net: Snooker Results and Statistic Database''
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Egyptian snooker players
Living people
1986 births