Hammad Miah

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Hammad Miah
Hammad Miah
birthday 6th July 1993 (age 27)
place of birth Hertford
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 2013–2015, since 2016
Prize money £ 92,522 (as of August 31, 2020)
Highest break 142 ( Northern Ireland Open 2018 )
Century Breaks 17 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 71 (June-August, September 2017)
Current WRL location 97 (as of August 17, 2020)
Best results
Ranked tournaments Round of 16 ( Paul Hunter Classic 2018 )

Hammad Miah (born July 6, 1993 in Hertford ) is an English snooker player .

Career

Hammad Miah's parents come from Bangladesh and he was born in England. He started playing snooker at the age of eight and learned from the former professional player Jason Pegrum at the Pockets Snooker Club in Ware . He defeated Jimmy White in a show match while visiting the club. At the age of 15 he played a break of 144 points. He had his breakthrough in 2012 when he was in one of the regional finals at the English Amateur Championship and the only non-Chinese player to reach the semi-finals at the U21 World Snooker Championship in Wuxi .

As a result, Miah attended Q School in the spring of the following year . In the first tournament he was able to win in his group and thus got the opportunity to participate as a professional player in the following two seasons of the Snooker Main Tour . Just two weeks later, he won his first win in qualifying for the Australian Goldfields Open . In addition, he got only a few wins in the 2013/14 season , with his best result in a world ranking tournament was the round of 32, which he reached at the Indian Open . At the end of the season, however, he only took 104th place in the world rankings . The following year he only managed one victory at all, at the Shanghai Masters 2014 in the first qualifying round, and with that he dropped out of the Main Tour again.

Miah missed the immediate re-qualification through the Q School, but his performance enabled him to participate as a supplementary player in qualifying games of several Main Tour tournaments, which he lost all. However, he was successful in the Players Tour Championship: In three tournaments - Riga Open , Ruhr Open and Bulgarian Open - he was among the last 32 and overall he collected so much prize money that he was among the "European Tour Order of Merit" Non-Main Tour players took 6th place. With that he acquired another tour ticket for two more years as a professional.

In the 2016/17 season he defeated a top 16 player in qualifying for the World Open with Martin Gould , but was then eliminated in China against a local wildcard player. At the Shanghai Masters he defeated Rory McLeod , among others, and was only eliminated in the fourth qualifying round. But there were also many defeats at the beginning. At the world championship at the end of the season he met the world number eight Ricky Walden and was able to win 10: 7 despite being 0: 5 behind. He then defeated Martin O'Donnell with the same result. In the game for a place in the World Cup finals at the Crucible Theater , Rory McLeod was his opponent for the second time in the season. After a false start with 0: 7 frames, he fought his way back to 6: 7, but finally lost with 7:10. The next season he started at number 71 in the rankings and confirmed his position by moving into the bottom 32 of the Riga Masters at the start. But then he lost 5 opening games in a row. He was able to repeat the result from Riga at the English Open and the German Masters and also beat top 32 players like Tom Ford and Luca Brecel . Nevertheless, he stepped on the spot in the overall performance and as 78th in the world rankings he lost his Main Tour place again in 2018.

This time, however, he reached the play-off in the first tournament of the Q School and won 4-0 against Luke Simmonds. He went straight into his fifth professional year in the 2018/19 season .

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments

Amateur tournaments

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  1. ↑ Profile of Hammad Miah on CueTracker (as of January 28, 2019)
  2. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 351 kB) After The 2017 Kaspersky Riga Masters. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , June 26, 2017, accessed July 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 351 kB) After 2017 Indian Open. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , September 18, 2017, accessed September 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Indian Open snooker: Mehta scalps Miah to make last 16 , Zee News, October 16, 2013
  5. ↑ Please step forward ... Hammad Miah (interview), On Cue, October 28, 2010
  6. ↑ Local Player Hammad Miah Joins The World Snooker Main Tour! , Saffron Walden & District Snooker League, May 23, 2013
  7. ↑ Results - World Under 21 Snooker Championship 2012 ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Miah, Hammad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Hertford , England