Dechawat Poomjaeng
| Dechawat Poomjaeng | |
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| birthday | 11th July 1978 (age 42) |
| nationality |
 Thailand
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| Nickname (s) | Jack |
| professional | 2011-2017 |
| Prize money | £ 173,709 |
| Highest break | 147 |
| Century Breaks | 25th |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | - |
| Ranking tournament victories | - |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
| World rankings | |
| Highest WRL place | 37 (March – April 2015) |
Dechawat Poomjaeng (born July 11, 1978 ) is a Thai snooker player .
Career
Dechawat Poomjaeng had his breakthrough in international snooker in 2010 when he took bronze at the 2010 Asian Games and won the IBSF Amateur World Championship , qualifying for the Snooker Main Tour .
In his first year on the professional tour he showed his best performance at the Alex Higgins International Trophy 2011 , where he defeated Stephen Hendry and Stephen Maguire , among others , and only failed in the round of 16 against Ben Woollaston . He made it to the round of 16 again in 2012 at some PTC tournaments. He qualified for the first time at the German Masters 2013 for the finals of a full ranking tournament . There he lost to Barry Hawkins 2: 5.
Dechawat Poomjaeng's greatest success so far as a professional was at the 2013 World Snooker Championship when he defeated Stephen Maguire 10: 9 in Round 1 and reached the round of 16, which he lost to Michael White 3:13.
At the Wuxi Classic 2013 he reached the round of 32 with a 5-1 win against Dominic Dale . There he lost 5-1 to John Higgins .
For the finals of the Australian Goldfields Open 2013 , he was also able to qualify. He lost his first round match against defending champion Barry Hawkins 1: 5. In qualifying for the German Masters 2014 , he achieved the 101st maximum break in snooker history.
At the Paul Hunter Classic 2014 , a minor ranking tournament, Dechawat reached the quarter-finals with a victory over Neil Robertson . There were two more round of 16 appearances at the China Open 2015 and the UK Championship 2015 .
Web links
- Profile at World Snooker
- Profile at Pro Snooker Blog
- Dechawat Poomjaeng in the snooker Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Career-total Statistics for Dechawat Poomjaeng. Professional. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed June 24, 2018 .
- ↑ World Championship Qualifiers 2013: Lisowski Leads Debut Four (prosnookerblog.com, April 14, 2013)
- ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 326 kB) After The Players Championship 2015. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , March 30, 2015, archived from the original on July 7, 2015 ; accessed on July 18, 2015 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dechawat Poomjaeng |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | thai snooker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thailand |