Chris Wakelin

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Chris Wakelin
Chris Wakelin
birthday 16th March 1992 (age 28)
place of birth rugby
nationality EnglandEngland England
Nickname (s) Wonderful wakelin
professional since 2013
Prize money £ 290,415 (as of August 31, 2020)
Highest break 144 ( Paul Hunter Classic 2018 )
Century Breaks 53 (as of August 31, 2020)
World rankings
Highest WRL place 45 ( August – September 2018 )
Current WRL location 57 (as of August 17, 2020)

Chris Wakelin (born March 16, 1992 in rugby ) is an English snooker player .

Career

Chris Wakelin began playing snooker at the age of six and tried to make the leap into professional sport for the first time at the age of 17. When that failed, he took up a job and only did snooker as a hobby. A few years later he made a second attempt. However, in 2012 he still had family problems and depression that led to Yips , muscle twitching that made it impossible for him to play. Nevertheless, in May 2013 he again applied for a place in the Q-School tournaments on the Snooker Main Tour . In the first tournament , he just missed qualifying in his group final. In the third tournament he reached the group final again, which took a strange turn. Wakelin had turned the game and was 3-2 ahead and was in a break when his opponent Adam Wicheard's cue broke as he leaned on it off the table. Wicheard then gave up the game.

Then he also took part in the open U-21 championship of England and reached the final on June 16, 2013. With a victory over Hammad Miah , he won the title. Prior to his professional career, Wakelin worked as a driver for the ASDA supermarket chain in Warwickshire .

Chris Wakelin was eligible to start the next two seasons of the professional tour thanks to the Q-School group victory. However, he is not a full professional, otherwise he would not be able to afford his sport. He continues to work as a driver for the Asda supermarket chain and usually foregoes tournaments with long journeys. In the 2013/14 snooker season , he only appeared in qualifying games in England and the eight European tournaments of the Players Tour Championship . He also achieved his best results in these minor ranking tournaments. At the 2013 Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup he made it to the quarterfinals and in this and the other tournaments he beat professionals like Nigel Bond , Mark Davis and Ryan Day . Nevertheless, the series brought few points, so that at the end of the season he was only ranked 106 in the world rankings .

In the following season he was able to qualify for the main round of a full ranking tournament right at the beginning with a victory over Tom Ford . In the 2014 Wuxi Classic , his first tournament in China, he reached the round of 32 and then rose in the world rankings to 74th place Then came he in Riga open to the second round and came in qualifying for the Shanghai Masters to into the third qualifying round. His biggest successes of the season were the quarter-finals of the Ruhr Open and the Indian Open . However, both were smaller tournaments, so that he was only 88th in the world rankings at the end of the season. For this he led the "Order of Merit" of the Player Tour Championship and was thus immediately admitted to the Main Tour for two more years.

In the 2015/16 season he was able to win many opening matches, especially at important tournaments such as the International Championship , the UK Championship and the World Championship, but except at the Australian Open he never got past the second round. At least it brought him a good starting position for the following year with 70th place.

During the next season , Wakelin was able to move into the English Open Ronnie O'Sullivan and into the second round and later through a victory over Xiao Guodong into the quarter-finals, in which he lost 5-0, so by white-wash , against Stuart Bingham . In addition, he reached the round of 32 at the Scottish Open . In the world rankings, he was able to place himself on rank 63, which he could just keep his place on the professional tour.

In the 2017/18 season , Wakelin reached the round of 16 at the Paul Hunter Classic and the Northern Ireland Open and the round of 32 in four other tournaments.This included the World Snooker Championship , in which he won over Xu Si , Kurt Maflin and Tian Pengfei had qualified for the finals for the first time, but lost in the first game just under 9:10 to Judd Trump . On the world rankings he was able to improve by a further fifteen places to 48th place.

The following season went a little worse for Wakelin , even though he reached the quarter-finals at the Riga Masters and the second round at the Paul Hunter Classic and the Indian Open . On the world rankings he was able to hold his 48th place. During the 2019/20 season, however , he was mostly eliminated in the first two rounds, only making it to the second round at the China Championship and the Scottish Open .

successes

  • Winner of the English Under-21 Open 2013

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  1. ↑ Profile of Chris Wakelin at CueTracker (as of October 11, 2018)
  2. ↑ Chris Wakelin - Players . Snooker.org. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ Player info Chris Wakelin ( Memento from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at Friends of Snooker, accessed September 18, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Chris Takes his cue from bizarre accident , Gregg Evans, Birmingham Mail, June 16, 2013
  5. ↑ Wonderful Wakelin Earns Tour Place ( February 18, 2016 memento in the Internet Archive ), World Snooker, May 22, 2013
  6. ^ English Amateur Championship 2013 , Snooker Island (Forum), March 8-16, 2013, accessed February 18, 2016
  7. ↑ Tinker, Tailor… Snooker Player? In: wst.tv. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 31, 2019, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ron Florax: Chris Wakelin - Season 2013-2014 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b c d e f Ron Florax: Ranking History For Chris Wakelin. CueTracker.net, accessed May 1, 2002 .
  10. ↑ Ron Florax: Chris Wakelin - Season 2014-2015 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Ron Florax: Chris Wakelin - Season 2015-2016 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Ron Florax: Chris Wakelin - Season 2016-2017 - Professional Results. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Ron Florax: Chris Wakelin - Season 2017-2018 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Ron Florax: Chris Wakelin - Season 2018-2019 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Ron Florax: Chris Wakelin - Season 2019-2020 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, accessed on May 1, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wakelin, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Rugby , England