Lasse Münstermann (born 6 April 1979) is a German retired snooker player and pundit. He began playing at the age of 11, and in 1994 he played in his first World Amateur Championship in

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, South Africa. For a year he trained in England at the Rushden Snooker Academy, where prominent snooker players like

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studied.

Career

Münstermann is the winner of several German Championships (Team: 1995 and 2005; double: 1994 and 1997; Single: 2003, 2004 and 2006; U21: 2000). His success in the European tour gave him a place on the main tour and

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in the 2000–01 season, but it was short-lived. At the

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he reached the quarter-finals. For Germany, he was part of a team with Sascha Lippe and Itaro Santos which won the European Team Snooker Championship in

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, Belgium, in early 2007. He qualified for the Players Tour Championship 2010/2011, which was held in Germany. He has also contributed to PAT (Playing Ability Test) Snooker along with Thomas Hein, Thomas Moser and Frank Schröder.

Tournament wins

Amateur

References

External links

* 1979 births Living people German snooker players Snooker commentators Competitors at the 2005 World Games Sportspeople from Lower Saxony {{snooker-bio-stub