Atthasit Mahitthi

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Atthasit Mahitthi
birthday 13th September 1978 (age 41)
place of birth Saraburi
nationality ThailandThailand Thailand
Nickname (s) Big Saraburi
professional 2001-2004, 2008-2010
Prize money £ 39,670
Highest break 140
Century Breaks 12
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 75 (2009/10)

Atthasit Mahitthi ( Thai อรรถ สิทธิ์ มหิ ท ธ ; born September 13, 1978 in Saraburi ), nickname Big Saraburi , is a Thai snooker player . Between 2001 and 2010 he played for five years as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour .

Career

Atthasit Mahitthi attracted international attention as a youth when he reached the semi -finals of the 1996 U21 World Cup . At the age of 21 he took part in a professional tournament, the domestic Thailand Masters , for the first time thanks to a wildcard . Against Hugh Abernethy , he led 3-1 and then lost 3-5. Then he went to England the following year and took part as an amateur in the pre-qualification of the World Cup.

In 2001 he made the leap on the professional tour . In the first year he already achieved a few opening wins in ranking tournaments, at the Welsh Open 2002 he came in round 2. The best result was the round of 32 at the Benson & Hedges Championship , which, however, did not count for the world rankings . At the start of the 2002/03 season he reached the final round of the LG Cup after defeating Terry Murphy from Northern Ireland, among others . He also had two wins, including his first in a best-of-19 match at the World Cup. Although he made little progress in the ranking, he was able to hold on to the Main Tour for another year. In 2003/04 he was able to improve again, both at the British Open and at the UK Championship , he made it into the round of the last 64, both times he defeated Rod Lawler , once Peter Lines . Over the whole year he could not continue that, only once, at the Irish Masters , he came at least in round 3. Even if he rose to 86th place in the ranking, that was not enough for another professional year.

The following year, Mahitthi therefore had to play Challenge Tour . In the four tournaments he never got past the last 32, which is why he gave up his professional ambitions. For this he entered the amateur world championship from this year and reached the quarter-finals straight away in 2004 . The following year the tournament was canceled, but in 2006 he made it to the semi-finals, where he lost to eventual world champion Kurt Maflin . At the 2007 World Cup , he defeated ex-professionals like Andrew Pagett and Björn Haneveer and made it to the final. There he won against his compatriot Passakorn Suwannawat 11: 7 and won the world title.

This win was one of the ways to qualify for the Main Tour, and so the Thai made a second attempt as a professional in the 2008/09 . In two of the first three tournaments he reached the third qualifying round and at the Bahrain Championship he just missed the main tournament by a 4-5 loss to Steve Davis . In the Masters Qualifying Event he repeated his top 32 placement. In the second half of the season, he came in the last 64 of a ranking tournament for the third time at the China Open . After that, he stayed on the Main Tour over the one-year ranking. The first highlight of the second season was a professional tournament in Six Red Snooker : In the Pro Challenge Series, he reached the semifinals in a tournament after victories over Rod Lawler and Jimmy Michie . After that he could not confirm the first year. Only at the UK Championship 2009 did he come back under the last 64, otherwise there were only initial defeats. From 75th place he fell to 86 in the world rankings. This was the second time he dropped out of the Main Tour and then ended his professional career. In 2017 he took part again at the invitation of the 6-Red World Championship in his home country, but was eliminated in the group stage.

Mahitthi runs a snooker club called Big Sara in his hometown of Saraburi . He also works as a sports commentator on Thai television.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Amateur tournaments:

swell

  1. ↑ a b c d Profile of Atthasit Mahitthi on CueTracker (as of January 5, 2018)
  2. ↑ มา รู้จัก บิ๊ ก สระบุรี กับ sbobet. Sbobet, accessed 2015 .
  3. ↑ ThaiBev supports Thai snooker stars in the 2009-2010 World Professional Snooker Championship. ThaiBev, July 20, 2009, accessed January 5, 2018 .
  4. ^ Snooker Clubs Thailand. (No longer available online.) Snooker Thailand, archived from the original on January 6, 2018 ; accessed on January 5, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.snookerthailand.net
  5. ↑ TrueVisions kicks off Bht 30 million 'Countdown to an All-HD Sports Season' campaign with top stars. Emissary Broadcasting Corporation, July 15, 2013, accessed January 5, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mahitthi, atthasite
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Big Saraburi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION thai snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Saraburi