Rhys Clark (born 17 August 1994) is a former Scottish professional snooker player.

Career

Amateur

From the village of Stonehouse,

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, Clark started playing snooker from aged 11. As an amateur he featured in various professional tournaments with his best results coming in the 2014 World Snooker Championship first round qualifier where he beat Mike Dunn 10–2 and the 2015 Indian Open wildcard round where he beat former professional Pankaj Advani 4–3.

Professional

In the first event of Q School, Clark reached the final round and made breaks of 63 and 59 against

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and won 4–1, a win which gave Clark a two-year card to the

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for the 2015–16 season and 2016–17 seasons. He won his first match by beating Grant Miles 5–1 in the

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qualifiers, before losing by a reverse of this scoreline to

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. At the

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he was knocked out in the first round 1–6 by

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. A 5–0 whitewash over

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with a high break of 104 saw Clark qualify for the China Open. In Clark's first appearance at a Chinese ranking event he won a match at a venue for the first time by beating Davis 5–4. In the next round Clark made breaks over 50 in each of the four frames he won, but was edged out 4–5 by

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. His first season as a professional ended with an opening round 5–10 defeat to David Gilbert in

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qualifying. Clark received a bye to the second round of the 2016 English Open and then eliminated

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4–2 and

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4–3 (finished the match with 50 plus breaks in five successive frames) to advance to the last 16 of a ranking event for the first time and he lost 1–4 to

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. Clark earned a second round televised match with

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at the

after squeezing past

6–5, but was whitewashed 0–6. He knocked out Sean O'Sullivan 4–1 and

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at the Gibraltar Open, before losing 2–4 to

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Clark ended the season 75th in the world rankings, but has earned a new two-year tour card through the one-year ranking list.

Performance and rankings timeline

References

External links

Rhys Clark
at ''CueTracker.net: Snooker Results and Statistic Database''
Rhys Clark
at ''worldsnooker.com'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Rhys 1994 births People from Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire Living people Scottish snooker players Sportspeople from South Lanarkshire