Andy Lee (snooker player)

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Andy Lee
Andy Lee
birthday 27th November 1980 (age 39)
nationality EnglandEngland England / Hong KongHong KongHong Kong 
professional 2008/09, 2018−
Prize money £ 24,975 as of August 31, 2020
Highest break 130 ( PIOS 2006/07 - Event 5 )
Century Breaks 7 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 83 (2009)
Current WRL location 104 (as of August 17, 2020)

Andy Lee (born November 27, 1980 ), Chinese name Lee Chun Wai ( Chinese  李俊威 , Pinyin Lǐ Jùnwēi ), is a Hong Kong-Chinese snooker player . He was born in Great Britain. But since his parents immigrated from Hong Kong , he later competed under the flag of the Chinese Autonomous Region. In 2008-09 he played one season as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour .

Career

Andy Lee started playing snooker when he was 10 years old in his hometown of Hinckley . At the age of 18 he first took part in a qualifying round for amateurs at the World Cup. One of his greatest youth successes in 2000 was reaching the English U21 final and then participating in the U21 World Cup . His professional ambitions were not fulfilled for the time being and so he first completed a business degree ( BBA ) at De Montfort University in Leicester .

Only then did he try again with the professional snooker and played the Challenge Tour 2003/04 to qualify for the professional tour. But only in the fourth and final tournament did he win his first two games. In the second attempt he was already much more successful, but a round of 16 in the 4 tournaments was not enough as the best result. In the 2006/07 season there was the Pontin's International Open Series with 8 qualifying tournaments and he was already much more successful. In the first tournament he reached the semifinals and then lost to Kurt Maflin . He defeated him in the fourth tournament and made it to the quarterfinals. However, he also lost his opening game three times and in the overall standings he only reached 18th place with 8 qualifying places. In the following year he came with three round of 16 results only in 32nd place. In 2008 he took another opportunity to qualify: the play-off tournament of the English association for one of the two national tour wildcards . There he actually reached the finals and turned pro with a win over Adam Duffy .

Paul Hunter Classic 2018

The Profi 2008-09 season began with a Lee Although opening loss, the Shanghai Masters but he defeated Rodney Goggins and Martin Gould and reached for the first time the round of the last 64. He succeeded also in the Grand Prix and the China Open . In all other tournaments he lost the first game. In particular in the higher-quality tournaments, the UK Championship and the World Championship , he awarded many points for the world rankings . As 83rd of 96 players in the final, he could not hold his Main Tour place.

After that he made no new attempt on the professional tour. When the Players Tour Championship was introduced in 2010 , he took part in the English and part of the European Pro-Am tournaments (professional tournaments open to amateurs). Although he reached the main round several times, he was almost always eliminated as soon as he met a professional. Andy Lee had meanwhile moved to the Hong Kong Association and he was also moving his residence there. That's why he was able to compete in the 2010 Asian Cup . But he did not reach more than the round of 16. That was where he ended up at the amateur world championships two years later . At the Asian Cup a year later, he made it to the quarter-finals. At the 2014 World Cup, he won the team competition for Hong Kong together with Fung Kwok Wai. Since then he has also competed internationally under the name Lee Chun Wai. In 2017 he reached the quarter-finals at the World Cup and in the same year the semi-finals at the 6 Red World Cup .

In 2016 he made another attempt at professional snooker via the Q School and two years later he competed again. He improved from tournament to tournament and reached his group final in the third tournament . With a 4-2 win over Kuldesh Johal , at the age of 37, 10 years after his first Main Tour season, he secured the right to participate in the professional tournaments for two more years.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Amateur tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

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  1. ↑ Profile of Andy Lee on CueTracker (as of August 3, 2018) / Profile of Lee Chun Wai on CueTracker (as of May 31, 2018)
  2. ↑ Centuries By Andy Lee In Season 2006-2007. CueTracker - Snooker Results & Statistics Database, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Hinckley snooker star Andy Lee's future looks bright. The Hinckley Times, March 5, 2009, accessed January 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ IBSF Team Snooker Championship Men → Sharm-el-Sheikh - Egypt 2014 (results). IBSF, 2014, accessed January 16, 2018 .

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SURNAME Lee, Andy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lee Chun Wai (Chinese name); 李俊威
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English-Chinese snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1980