Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (, ; born 18 April 1985) is a Thai professional snooker player. He has won one

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event, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, and finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Open. He is regarded as one of the fastest snooker players on the World Tour, averaging less than 17 seconds per shot during the 2017–18 and the 2019–20 snooker seasons.

Career

Un-Nooh first entered the professional tour for the 2009–10 season by winning the 2008

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. He dropped off the main tour after just one season.

2012–13 season

He received the Thai nomination to compete on the snooker tour for the 2012–13 season. As a new player on the tour, he needed to win four matches to reach the main stage of the ranking events. He lost in the third qualifying round in three of the first four ranking events of the season. In September, it was announced that his match at the Players Tour Championship – Event 3 against

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was under investigation due to unusual betting patterns. Un-Nooh moved from an 8/11 odds-on favourite to 11/8 against just before the match started, and went on to lose 0–4 to the six-time world champion.

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released a statement in November to confirm that there was insufficient evidence, and that no further action would be taken against Un-Nooh. He reached the final qualifying round for the

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and the World Open, but lost to Michael Holt and Ryan Day respectively. Un-Nooh played in nine of the ten Players Tour Championship Events during the season; his best results were three last-16 defeats in European Tour Events, and he finished 46th on the PTC Order of Merit. His season ended when he was beaten 3–10 by

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in the third round of World Championship Qualifying, which saw him finish the year ranked world number 69.

2013–14 season

Un-Nooh lost in the qualifying rounds for the first four ranking events of the 2013–14 season, but then beat

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6–5 to reach the International Championship in

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. In his first appearance in the main draw of a ranking event he thrashed

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6–1, before losing by the same scoreline to

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in the last 32. However, the experience seemed to kick start Un-Nooh's season as in 2014 he played at the venue stage of four of the remaining six ranking events. He beat

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5–4 in qualifying for the

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, with the reigning world champion playing high risk exhibition shots throughout the match, but Un-Nooh was whitewashed 5–0 by

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in the first round. At the World Open, Un-Nooh led

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3–0, before the world number eight rallied to win four frames in a row. The match went into a deciding frame in which Un-Nooh made a break of sixty, only for Maguire to get a chance to win but then miss the final brown, handing Un-Nooh a big scalp. He then reached the last 16 of a ranking event for the first time by beating

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5–1 and lost 5–2 to

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, despite missing the final pink when on a

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break during the match. Un-Nooh advanced to the last 32 of the China Open by whitewashing 1997 world champion

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5–0, before losing 5–3 against

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. His performances during the campaign saw him end it in the top 64 in the world rankings for the first time as he was placed 59th.

2014–15 season

Un-Nooh qualified for the International Championship for the second year in a row, but was edged out 6–5 by

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in the first round. He also lost in a deciding frame in the first round of the

against

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, despite making breaks of 137 and 117 during the match. Un-Nooh won five games to reach the semi-finals of the Xuzhou Open where he beat Mark Williams 4–1 to play in his first final in a professional event. He was defeated 4–1 by Joe Perry, but he described Un-Nooh as an exceptional talent after the match. Un-Nooh defeated defending champion Ding Junhui in the first round of the Indian Open, calling it his biggest win after the match. He also stated that he didn't feel he could win the title. Nevertheless, he whitewashed

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4–0 and then recorded wins over Jamie Jones and

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to reach the semi-finals of a ranking event for the first time. Un-Nooh compiled a trio of half-century breaks to race into a 3–0 lead over

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, but went on to lose 4–3. His Asian final saw him finish fourth on their Order of Merit to make his debut in the

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, where he was knocked out 4–1 by Mark Williams in the first round. Un-Nooh's rise up the rankings continued as he ended the year 49th in the world.

2015–16 season

Un-Nooh scored his first professional win at the 2015 Six-red World Championship in

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. He beat world champion

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and former UK Champion

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en route to a final with China's

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, which he won 8–2 in frames. Un-Nooh missed the final black in attempting to make a

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in his 6–2 loss to

at the

. He appeared on

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show ''

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'' a few days later to recreate the shot, and this time potted it. At the World Grand Prix, Un-Nooh eliminated

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4–3 and Mark Allen 4–2 to reach the quarter-finals. He made breaks of 97, 84 and 74 to lead 3–1, but Ding Junhui took the match 4–3. Incredibly, in the final round of

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qualifying, Un-Nooh missed another 147 final black. He did make a 144 later on in the match, but his opponent

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won 10–7. Un Nooh increased his ranking by 16 places over the year to end it as the world number 33.

2016–17 season

Un-Nooh knocked out world number one

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5–3 in the second round of the World Open, and then whitewashed

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5–0 and beat Anthony McGill 5–2. In the semi-finals he suffered a 6–1 loss to

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. In the third round of the

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against

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, Un-Nooh finally made his first professional 147 break, after twice missing the final black the previous season. It earned him £40,000, and he won the match 4–1 before then narrowly beating Mark Allen and

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both 4–3, to reach the semi-finals of a ranking tournament for the second successive event. Un-Nooh lost 4–2 against

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. He struggled to build on this afterward, for he could not win a first-round match until the 2017 Welsh Open, in which he beat

4–0 and then saw off Ryan Day 4–1, before being defeated 4–1 by

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. After a last 16 finish at the Gibraltar Open his season ended on a low note as he lost in the first round of qualifying for the

with a 10–9 defeat against

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2017–18 season

At the invitational 2017 Six-red World Championship, Un-Nooh reached the final and was level at 2–2 against Williams before losing 2–8. His season was generally pretty quiet, with his best ranking finish being reaching the last 16 at the World Open, where he was eliminated 5–1 by

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. However he did qualify for the

for the second year running after recording victories over

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(10–8),

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(10–4), and

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(10–8). Drawn against

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in the first round (who subsequently went on to reach the final), he recorded two century breaks but ultimately lost out 10–7. He finished the season ranked 56th.

2018–19 season

Un-Nooh's best showing in a ranking event for the first half of the 2018–19 snooker season was at the Northern Ireland Open, where he defeated

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4–0, Ross Muir 4–0,

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4–1, and

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4–0 before meeting

in the quarter-finals where he lost 5–3. Un-Nooh then secured his first ranking event title at the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, beating Michael Holt with a break of 74. This came after he made the highest

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in the tournament's history, 139, in the semi-finals to beat Jamie Clarke. He secured a £32,000 prize and became the second player from Thailand to win a ranking event. He once again qualified for the

, recording victories over Johnathan Bagley,

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and Joe O'Connor. He was drawn against eventual champion

in the first round, and lost 10–9 in a classic match, despite being 6–3 up and having a chance to win in the deciding frame.

2019–20 season

In the first half of the 2019–20 snooker season, Un-Nooh's best performances in ranking events were last 16 finishes at the Riga Masters and

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, where he was defeated by

and

respectively. He also added another title by winning the non-ranking

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, defeating

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5–3 in the final. Just one week later at the World Open, Un-Nooh recorded victories over Zhang Yang,

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, David Gilbert and

to reach his second ranking final. Facing

, he fell 7–1 behind including conceding a frame after three fouls, but rallied to 8–5 before Trump took the remaining two frames. He picked up £75,000 for reaching the final which is his highest single-event prize to date. He also reached the quarter-finals of the Scottish Open where he lost out 5–3 to

in an entertaining match, the European Masters where he lost 5–1 to

, and the Gibraltar Open where he lost 4–0 to

. For the 2020 World Snooker Championship delayed by the

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, he came through qualifying for the third year in a row with victories over

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and

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, and was drawn against

in the first round. However, in a match played behind closed doors, he was demolished 10–1 in a fastest ever best-of-19 match at the Crucible, which lasted just 108 minutes. Like his previous two first round opponents at the World Championship, O'Sullivan would also go on to reach the final (and, like Trump the previous year, win the tournament).

2020–21 season

In a season largely played behind closed doors in

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, Un-Nooh struggled to get into a rhythm of winning matches, with his best ranking finishes being last 16 appearances at the Northern Ireland Open,

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and Gibraltar Open. However his performances from the previous season were enough to propel him into the top 16 in the rankings for the first time by October, and would ensure he would make a first appearance at the Masters. Drawn against reigning champion

, he slipped to 5–1 behind but rallied to 5–4, before Bingham won the tenth frame and the match 6–4. His season ended with a disappointing 6–5 defeat to

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in the first round of qualifying for the

2021–22 season

Despite starting the season ranked 19th, Un-Nooh endured a poor run of form through most of the 2021–22 snooker season, with his best showing by March being a last 32 appearance at he

. Despite losing to

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in qualifying for the

, he made the third maximum break of his career during the match. At the

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, he was under pressure for ranking points and defeated local wildcard Ismail Turker,

and Jordan Brown before losing in the last 16 to

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but gaining some much needed points. He then entered qualifying for the

with relegation from the tour a possibility. He defeated

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(6–4), Jak Jones (6–5), and recorded a first ever victory over Matthew Selt (10–7) to save his tour card and advance to the Crucible. Un-Nooh lost to

10–7 in the first round proper.

Playing style

Un-Nooh is noted for his rapid playing style, and ability to win frames and matches quickly with explosive speed and heavy scoring, while his playing style has varyingly been described as "scary", but also "frustrating" due to his over-emphasis on attacking play which can make him vulnerable in safety exchanges or scrappy frames. He is also notably only the second player (after

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) to achieve a 155 break in a witnessed frame and the first to achieve it on camera after compiling one during a practice match against

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Performance and rankings timeline

Career finals

Ranking finals: 2 (1 title)

Minor-ranking finals: 1

Non-ranking finals: 3 (2 titles)

Pro-am finals: 2 (1 title)

Amateur finals: 3 (2 titles)

References

External links

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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (, ; born 18 April 1985) is a Thai professional snooker player. He has won one Snooker world rankings, ranking event, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, and finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Open (snooker), 2019 World Open. H ...

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