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2015–16 Snooker Season
The 2015–16 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between 7 May 2015 and 2 May 2016. The World Grand Prix became a ranking event featuring the top 32 players on a one-year money list, having been a non-ranking event the previous season. New professional players Countries: * * * * * * * * * * * The top 64 players from the prize money rankings after the 2015 World Championship, and the 30 players earning a two-year card the previous year automatically qualified for the season. The top eight players from the European Tour Order of Merit and top four players from the Asian Tour Order of Merit, who had not already qualified for the Main Tour, also qualified. Another two players came from the EBSA Qualifying Tour Play-Offs, and a further eight places were available through the 2015 Q School. The rest of the places on to the tour came from amateur events and national governing body nominations. Hossein Vafaei's two-year tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Neil Robertson
Neil Alexander Robertson (born 11 February 1982) is an Australian professional snooker player, who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and former List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He is the most successful player from outside the United Kingdom and the only non-UK born player to have completed snooker's Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown, having won the World Snooker Championship, World Championship in 2010 World Snooker Championship, 2010, the Masters (snooker), Masters in 2012 Masters (snooker), 2012 and 2022 Masters (snooker), 2022 and the UK Championship in 2013 UK Championship, 2013, 2015 UK Championship, 2015 and 2020 UK Championship, 2020. He has claimed 25 career ranking titles and won at least one professional tournament each year between 2006 and 2022. Robertson first turned professional in the 1998-99 snooker season, 199899 season but was unsuccessful and dropped off the tour. He rejoined the tour for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship
The IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship (also known as the World Amateur Under-21 Snooker Championship) is the premier non-professional junior snooker tournament in the world. The event series is sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation and started from 1987. Four winners of this championship subsequently became world professional champion (Ken Doherty, Peter Ebdon, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Neil Robertson) Results Men Women Medals Men (1987-2022) Women (2007-2024) See also * World Snooker Tour * IBSF World Snooker Championship * IBSF World Under-18 Snooker Championship * World Open Under-16 Snooker Championships References {{International amateur snooker championships Youth snooker competitions Recurring sporting events established in 1987 1987 establishments in England World championships in snooker Under-21 sports competitions snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular Billiard table#Snooker a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vinnie Calabrese
Vincent "Vinnie" Calabrese (born 7 October 1987) is an Australian former professional snooker player from Campbelltown, New South Wales. He was based in Cambridge together with his compatriot Neil Robertson, although he has since moved back to Australia. Early career Calabrese started playing snooker aged 7 and soon came to success, winning a number of local tournaments. At the age of just 16 he had already claimed the Australian Snooker Championship. Since 2006 he has been spending a lot of time in England, playing in the PIOS tournaments and practising with Neil Robertson. His initial attempts to gain the main tour place via PIOS and later Q School were unsuccessful, however in 2013 he captured the Oceania Championship in Papua New Guinea with a 6–5 victory against Matthew Bolton to earn a two-year card for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons. 2013/2014 season Thanks to the newly introduced flat draws, Calabrese was able to qualify for the venue stages of his debut tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hatem Yassen
Hatem Yassen ( ''Ḥātam Yāsīn''; born 21 August 1986) is an Egyptian professional snooker player. Yassen turned professional in 2015 winning the African Championship. Career In 2015, Yassen beat fellow countryman and former professional Mohamed Khairy 6–5 in the final of the African Championship. The win gained him a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour The World Snooker Tour (WST) is the main professional snooker tour, consisting of about 128 players competing on a circuit of up to 28 tournaments each season. It is administered by World Snooker Ltd, the commercial arm of professional snooker, ... 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. In the qualifying stages of the 2024 UK Championship, Hatem won his first match as a professional, beating Mink ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
ABSF African Snooker Championships
The ABSC All Africa Snooker Championship is an annual snooker competition and is the highest ranking amateur event in Africa. The event series is sanctioned by the African Billiards & Snooker Confederation. Established back in 1993 as the ABSF African Snooker Championship, the winner of the event often becomes the African nomination for the World Snooker Tour. Throughout the tournament’s early history the championship was dominated by South African people, South African players, however at the turn of the millennium Egyptians, Egyptian players became the dominant force in the championship, winning 11 of 15 championships since the year 2000. The championship is currently held by Mahmoud El Hareedy who defeated Yassine Bellamine 6–1 in the 2025 final. Men's finals Champions by country Women's finals Champions by country References External links Africa Billiards & Snooker Confederation Snooker amateur competitions Recurring sporting events established in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Itaro Santos
Itaro Santos (born 28 July 1985) is a German-born Brazilian snooker player. Itaro is based at the Legends Snooker Academy in Leytonstone, England, United Kingdom. Career Since 2004, Santos has also competed for Germany, as his native Brazil was not then a member of the IBSF. He is a two-time German Amateur Championship and together with Lasse Münstermann and Sascha Lippe competed as part of Team Germany at the European Team Snooker Championship of 2007. Through a wildcard Santos has also competed in the finals of the World Series of Snooker 2008/09. However he only managed to finish third in his group and failed to qualify for the next round. Santos won the 2015 Pan American Championship to earn a two-year card for the snooker tour beginning with the 2015–16 season. He only played four matches in the 2015/2016 season, losing all of them. Santos also lost all 12 of his matches in the 2016–17 season, though he was 3–1 ahead of world number six Shaun Murphy at the UK Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Akani Songsermsawad
Akani Songsermsawad (; born 10 September 1995), better known as Sunny Akani, is a Thai professional snooker player. Career Early career Akani, a regular in amateur Thai snooker events since 2011, first came to international attention with a 5–2 win over professional Matthew Selt in the Six-red World Championship, in 2008. 2015–2017 In 2015 he won the ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship, beating Yuan Sijun 6–4 in the final and as a result was given a two-year card on the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons. His first appearance in a ranking event qualifier came at the 2016 World Championship, where he was edged out 10–9 by compatriot Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in the opening round. Akani qualified for the 2016 Indian Open by defeating Ben Woollaston 4–3 and then saw off Jamie Burnett 4–1, Mark Davis 4–2 and Gary Wilson 4–2 (opened the match with a 104 break) to reach the quarter-finals of the first ranking he had appeared at. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship
The ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship is the premier non-professional junior snooker tournament in Asia. The event series is sanctioned by the Asian Confederation of Billiard Sports and started from 1993. In most of the seasons, the winner of the tournament qualifies for the next season of the Professional Snooker Tour. Winners cuetracker.net/tournaments/Asian-under-21-championship cuetracker.net/tournaments/Asian-under-21-championship-women Boys Girls Stats Champions by country (Men's) Champions by country (Women's) See also * World Snooker Tour The World Snooker Tour (WST) is the main professional snooker tour, consisting of about 128 players competing on a circuit of up to 28 tournaments each season. It is administered by World Snooker Ltd, the commercial arm of professional snooker, ... References {{International amateur snooker championships Youth snooker competitions Recurring sporting events established in 1993 1993 establishments in Asia S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hamza Akbar
Hamza Akbar (Urdu:حمزه اكبر ; born 12 November 1993) is a Pakistani professional snooker player who won the 31st Asian Snooker Championship held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2015. He is also the Pakistan national champion 2015. Career Born in Faisalabad city of Pakistan, Akbar is a two-time national snooker champion. Akbar won his first major international title at the age 22, beating Pankaj Advani of India 7–6 in the final in of Asian Snooker Championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in April 2015 to become the third player from Pakistan in 16 years to win Asia's top snooker title. The title earned him a two-year card for the main snooker tour, beginning with the 2015–16 season. He threatened a comeback from 4–0 against two-time world champion Mark Williams in the first round of the 2015 UK Championship, but lost 6–4. He took Michael Holt to a deciding frame in the opening round of the Welsh Open and made a break of 52, but was beaten 4–3. His most remarkabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
ACBS Asian Snooker Championship
The ACBS Asian Snooker Championship is the premier non-professional snooker tournament in Asia. The event series is sanctioned by the Asian Confederation of Billiard Sports and started from 1984. Mostly, the winner of the tournament qualifies for the next season of the Professional Snooker Tour. Winners Men's Women's Winners (6Reds & Team Snooker) ACBS Asian 6 Reds Snooker Championship: Indian Pankaj Advani claimed the 5th edition ACBS Asian 6 Reds Snooker Championship on in Abu Dhabi. 1- 2012 2- 2013 - Doha - Qatar 3- 2014 - Karachi - Pakistan 3rd Snooker 6-Red and 2nd Snooker Team Championships 4- 2015 - Kish Island - Iran 5- 2016 - Abu Dhabi - UAE 6- 2017 - Bishkek - Kyrgyzstan 7- 2018 - Doha - Qatar 8- 2019 - Doha - Qatar Billiards Sports 1st Asian Billiards Sport 2016 was held in 24 September - 2 October 2016 - Al Fujairah - UAE. 100 up Billiard 17th Asian 100 up Billiards Championship → Yangon - Myanmar 2018 English Billiards Championships Hosts AC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Darryl Hill (snooker Player)
Darryl Hill (born 30 April 1996 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is an English-born Manx former professional snooker player. Career In 2014, Hill entered the EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships as the number one ranked entrant, but lost in the third round to Ashley Carty. The following year, Hill made it to the final, where he defeated Louis Heathcote 6–3 to win the 2015 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships; as a result, he was given a two-year card on the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons. Hill beat Robert Milkins 6–4 to qualify for the 2015 International Championship. On his debut at the main stage of a ranking event, he was defeated 6–2 by Jimmy Robertson. He played at the UK Championship and Welsh Open for the first time, losing 6–3 to Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in the former and 4–1 to Graeme Dott in the latter. Hill received a bye in the first round of the China Open, due to Mark Selby withdrawing, and won a second-r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
