Boonyarit Keattikun

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Boonyarit Keattikun
birthday 5th October 1995 (age 24)
nationality ThailandThailand Thailand
professional 2016-2018
Prize money £ 13,400
Highest break 128
Century Breaks 1
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 90 (June 2017)

Boonyarit Keattikun ( Thai บุญ ญ ฤทธิ์ เกียรติ กุล , nickname Thai ไฟ ว์ นครนายก ; * October 5, 1995 ) is a Thai snooker player from Nakhon Nayok . From 2016 to 2018 he played on the Snooker Main Tour for two years .

Career

Boonyarit Keattikun started playing snooker at the age of 10. In 2012 he became the Thai youth champion. In the same year he succeeded for the first time in the final round of the U21 World Cup , in which he was eliminated in the round of 32 against Adam Stefanów . At the U21 Asian Cup in 2013 he reached the quarter-finals and lost to his compatriot Noppon Saengkham 2-5 . After he was eliminated in the Asian Cup in the round of 16, he again reached the round of 32 at the 2013 U21 World Cup . In December 2013, he made it to the final round of the Amateur World Cup for the first time , but in the round of 64 2: 4 against Krzysztof Wróbel lost. In May 2014 he reached the round of 16 of the U21 World Cup and was defeated by the German Lukas Kleckers . A month later he lost in the semifinals of the IBSF 6 Red World Championship with 3: 5 against Poland's Kacper Filipiak . In September 2014 he took part for the first time in the 6-Red World Championship , an invitation tournament on the Main Tour . There he moved, after defeating Barry Hawkins and Ryan Day , among others , in the round of 32, in which he was defeated by Joe Perry 2-6. At the Amateur World Cup in 2014 he reached the round of 32. In July 2015, after victories against Ryan Thomerson , Zhao Xintong and Wang Yuchen , he made it to the final of the U21 World Cup . There he defeated the Welshman Jamie Rhys Clarke 8: 7 and thus qualified for the Main Tour seasons 2016/17 and 2017/18 . In September 2015 he reached the quarterfinals of the 6-Red World Championship after victories against Michael Holt and Ryan Day as the best amateur player, in which he lost 7-1 to Thepchaiya Un-Nooh .

In his first professional season Boonyarit started with three first round defeats. His first professional win came at the 6-Red World Championship in 2016 , where he beat amateurs Peter McCullagh and Moh Keen Hoo in the group stage and was eliminated 5-6 by Joe Perry in the round of 32. After six more defeats, he achieved his first victory in a world ranking tournament in December 2016 when he defeated Scott Donaldson 5-3 in the first qualifying round of the German Masters 2017 . In the second qualifying round, however, he was defeated by Anthony Hamilton 3: 5. He won another win at the 2017 Welsh Open , beating former world champion Ken Doherty 4-1 before being knocked out 4-1 by Mark Allen in the round of 64 . In qualifying for the 2017 World Cup , he lost 2:10 in the first round to Dominic Dale . In the world rankings he finished his first professional season in 120th place, in the adjusted rankings at the beginning of the next season he moved up to 90th place. In the 2017/18 season he did not take part in the first two tournaments. At the Indian Open he managed to qualify for the main tournament against the top 16 player Kyren Wilson , but in India he was eliminated in round 1. After that, however, there were almost always significant qualification defeats. After he had not made it to a main tournament by the end of 2017, he did not participate at all in 2018. As a result, he lost his professional status and he did not try to qualify again via the Q School .

successes

Final participation

output year competition Final opponent Result
Amateur tournaments
winner 2015 U21 world championship WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Rhys Clarke 8: 7

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Boonyarit Keattikun on CueTracker (as of June 1, 2018)
  2. ↑ http://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?template=38&season=2017
  3. ↑ 2012 World Under-21 Championship - Men. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed May 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ 2013 Asian Championship. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed May 14, 2016 .
  5. ↑ 2013 World Under-21 Championship - Men. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed May 14, 2016 .
  6. ↑ 2014 World Under-21 Championship - Men. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed May 14, 2016 .
  7. ↑ 2014 IBSF 6-Reds World Championship - Men. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed May 14, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Prize Money Won By Boonyarit Keattikun In Season 2014-2015. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 30, 2017 .
  9. ^ Rolf Kalb : Snooker: Boonyarit Keattikun wins U21 World Cup and a Maintour ticket. In: eurosport.de. Eurosport , July 26, 2015, accessed May 14, 2016 .
  10. ^ Vivek Pathak: Double delight for Thailand. Boonyarit & Siripaporn are new champions. In: ibsf.info. International Billiards & Snooker Federation , July 26, 2015, accessed May 14, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Keattikun Takes Under-21 Title. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , July 27, 2015, accessed May 14, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Prize Money Won By Boonyarit Keattikun In Season 2015-2016. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 30, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Prize Money Won By Boonyarit Keattikun In Season 2016–2017. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed June 30, 2017 .
  14. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 350 kB) After the 2017 Betfred World Championship. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , June 30, 2017, accessed May 2, 2017 .
Note on Thai names : This article addresses people by their first name.
personal data
SURNAME Boonyarit Keattikun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION thai snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1995