Florian Nüßle (born 18 December 2001) is an Austrian professional

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player from

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. In 2017, aged 16, he became his country's youngest national snooker champion. In March 2025, he won his Q Tour Playoff to gain a two-year professional tour card starting from the 2025–26 season, becoming the first professional snooker player from Austria.

Career

National tournaments

Florian Nüßle became interested in snooker as a child and played

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with a standing aid when he was five years old. He also played football in his youth for five years for

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, and golf, but ultimately opted for snooker. After obtaining his

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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 and

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. At the 2017 event, he reached the quarter-finals of the under-21 event. He also entered the

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that year, reaching the semi-finals losing to eventual champion Pankaj Advani 4–7. From 2017, he competed in the annual pro-am

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(PHC), an amateur tournament from the

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. He would defeat professional player Elliot Slessor during the 2018 event.

Professional career

In March 2025, Nüßle defeated Estonian former professional Andres Petrov 103 in the final of Playoff 3 of the

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to gain a professional tour card for the 2025–26 and 2026–27 snooker seasons, becoming the first professional snooker player from Austria.

Performance and rankings timeline

Career finals

Pro-am finals: 1 (1 title)

Amateur finals: 20 (15 titles)

References

External links

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