Michael Wasley

Michael Wasley
birthday	23rd February 1990 (age 30)
nationality	England
professional	2012-2016
Prize money	£ 60,701
Highest break	142 ( PIOS 2009 - Event 5)
Century Breaks	29
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	72 (May 2014)

Michael Wasley (born February 23, 1990 ) is an English snooker player . He lives in Gloucester .

Career

As an amateur

To make the leap to the pros on the Main Tour , Wasley took part in the tournaments of the Pontin's International Open Series between 2006 and 2010 . He made it to the round of 16 twice: in 2006 he failed to Matthew Selt and in 2009 to Liam Highfield . In the PIOS season 2009/10 he achieved his best final result with 36th place in the overall ranking.

In the 2010/11 season , the Q School replaced the PIOS series as a qualifying tournament series for amateurs: While Wasley only made it to the quarterfinals of his group once in 2011, he finally secured himself in 2012 with a 4-3 final win in the third tournament against Fraser Patrick received a 2-year tour ticket for the 2012/13 and 2013/14 seasons .

Wasley also tried to compete with the professional players of the Main Tour in the tournaments of the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons of the Players Tour Championship . He reached the round of 32 four times and defeated players like Alfie Burden and Dave Harold .

One of his greatest successes in the junior division was reaching the finals at the EBSA European Junior Snookere Championship 2009. In the final he was defeated by Belgian Luca Brecel 5: 6.

As a professional

In his first season as a professional Wasley reached the final round of a full ranking tournament after qualifying for the last 32 of the German Masters 2013 in Berlin with victories over Jack Lisowski and Peter Ebdon . There he failed, however, in the first round 5-1 to Neil Robertson .

At the 2014 World Snooker Championship, Wasley caused the biggest surprise when he defeated tournament favorite Ding Junhui with 9:10 in the first round . Wasley had previously prevailed against Antony Parsons , Chen Zhe , Mark Joyce and Robert Milkins in the qualifying rounds .

His best result in a minor ranking tournament was reaching the round of 16 at PTC Event 4 . There he defeated Ryan Day , Liu Chuang and Kurt Maflin .

At the German Masters 2015 Wasley reached the finals in Berlin, but lost his first game against Shaun Murphy with 1: 5. At the following Welsh Open he made it to the third round.

In the 2015/16 season he only managed one victory in qualifying for the Australian Open and the Shanghai Masters . He finished the season in 86th place in the world snooker rankings , which meant that he lost his place on the Main Tour.

Web links

Commons : Michael Wasley  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile of Michael Wasley on CueTracker
• Player profile at Pro Snooker Blog
• Player profile on worldsnooker.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Profile of Michael Wasley on CueTracker (as of August 19, 2016)
2. ↑ 2009 PIOS - Event 5 - Tournament Ranking . CueTracker - Snooker Database. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
3. ↑ World Rankings after the World Championship 2014 (PDF) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . May 6, 2014. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved on February 25, 2015.
4. ↑ PIOS ranking list 2009/10 ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (global-snooker.com)
5. ↑ Michael Wasley - Season 2014-2015 - Professional Results. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed August 19, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Michael Wasley - Season 2015-2016 - Professional Results. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed August 19, 2016 . 
7. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 358 kB) After The 2016 Betfred World Championship. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , accessed August 19, 2016 .