Michael White (snooker player)

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Michael White
Michael White
birthday 5th July 1991 (age 29)
place of birth Neath
nationality WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wales
Nickname (s) Lightning
professional since 2007
Prize money £ 689,696 as of August 30, 2020
Highest break 145
Century Breaks 151 (as of August 30, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories 2
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 15 (April – May 2016)
Current WRL location 71 (as of August 17, 2020)

Michael White (born July 5, 1991 in Neath ) is a Welsh snooker player .

Career

White hinted at his talent at a very young age and entered the Guinness Book of Records in 2001 when he scored a century break at the age of nine years and 268 days .

At the age of 14 he won the IBSF World Grand Prix 2006 , a replacement event for the failed IBSF World Snooker Championship in 2005 . However, his final opponent Mark Boyle received the ticket for the Snooker Main Tour . Michael White was able to secure participation in the Main Tour a year later by winning the U19 European Championship in 2007 .

The first tournament of the professional tour, the Shanghai Masters 2007 , he had to suspend because he had not yet reached the age of 16, which was a prerequisite for participating in professional tournaments. The remainder of the 2007/08 season he was eligible to play, but could not collect enough world ranking points to assert himself on the tour.

After one season, he managed to re-qualify on the national rankings of Wales, so he returned to the professional tour for the 2009/10 season . In qualifying for the UK Championship 2009 he won three games and reached the round of 48, which was his best result in a major tournament to date. He failed to qualify at all tournaments, but at the end of the season he was the sixth-best newcomer to secure the stay on the tour.

The following season was largely solid for him. His best results were a place in the quarter-finals at the Rhein-Main Masters 2010 as part of the Players Tour Championship 2010/11 , two wins in the qualifying round of the Snooker World Championship 2011 and the UK Championship 2010 as well as reaching the fourth and final qualifying round at the Shanghai Masters 2010 . At the end of the season he finished 66th in the world rankings and was able to qualify again via the prize money ranking of the PTC tournaments.

After further consistently good performances at the beginning of the 2011/12 season - including a place in the semifinals of the Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy 2011 - he was among the top 64 in the world rankings for the first time. In qualifying for the Shanghai Masters 2011 , he scored his highest official break to date with a 145.

In the 2011/12 season he was able to qualify for the first time for the World Cup by winning against Zhang Anda and Andrew Higginson . There he managed to eliminate two-time world champion Mark J. Williams with a 10: 6 victory in the first round . In the second round he defeated Dechawat Poomjaeng with a clear 13: 3, before losing to Ricky Walden in the quarter-finals with 6:13.

At the end of the 2013/14 season he was among the top 32 in the world for the first time . At the Indian Open 2013 he reached the quarter-finals, he was also able to qualify again for the World Championship, but retired in the first round with 9:10 against Mark Selby .

On March 6, 2015, White won the shoot-out tournament of the 2014/15 Main Tour season . He narrowly decided the final, with the last push within frame time, with 54:48 against Xiao Guodong for himself. Less than a week later, he won the final of the Indian Open 2015 with a clear 5-0 win over Ricky Walden. This was his first title in a world ranking tournament. Despite a defeat in the first round of the Players Championship Grand Finals 2015 , he placed in the top 16 for the first time . With his placement in 16th place, he would actually have qualified directly for the world championship, since Ali Carter's position in the list was frozen in 13th place due to lung cancer, but White had to qualify. There he failed in the second round and slipped to 17th place after the World Cup.

In the following season he was able to play his way back into the top 16 with the quarter-finals in the first tournament, the Australian Open . At the Gibraltar Open 2015 he made it into the final, in which he lost to Marco Fu 1: 4. At his home tournament, the Welsh Open , he reached a quarter-finals a second time this season and with further rounds of 16 he was able to stay in the top 16 for most of the season. This was the first time he was set directly for the main tournament of the World Cup , but surprisingly lost the start against Sam Baird . As a result, he fell back a few places in the ranking. That season he passed 100 Century Breaks .

At the Paul Hunter Classic 2017 he reached his third final, including a 4-1 victory over world champion and world number one Mark Selby. With Shaun Murphy he defeated another top player and secured his second title in a ranking tournament.

successes

World ranking tournaments

Invitation tournaments

Amateur tournaments

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael White. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , January 11, 2015, accessed July 11, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Profile of Michael White at CueTracker (as of August 16, 2018)
  3. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 344 kB) After The 2016 BAIC Motor China Open. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , April 4, 2016, accessed April 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Kid potter heads for record books. In: news.bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation , March 28, 2001, accessed July 11, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Younges person to score a century break in snooker. In: guinnessworldrecords.com. Guinness World Records , accessed July 11, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Chris Turner: Major Amateur Championships. IBSF World Grand Prix. (No longer available online.) In: Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on July 12, 2015 ; accessed on July 11, 2015 .
  7. ^ Clive Everton : Rising star denied entry to Shanghai Masters. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian , June 26, 2007, accessed July 11, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Michael White. 2009/2010. In: snooker.org. Retrieved July 11, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Michael White. 2010/2011. In: snooker.org. Retrieved July 11, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Michael White. 2011/2012. In: snooker.org. Retrieved July 11, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Michael White. 2013/2014. In: snooker.org. Retrieved July 11, 2015 .
  12. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 326 kB) After the Players Championship 2015. (No longer available online.) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , March 30, 2015, archived from the original on July 7, 2015 ; accessed on July 11, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Carter To Retain TOP 16 Seeeding. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , October 22, 2014, accessed July 11, 2015 .
  14. ↑ World Rankings. After 2015 Betfred World Championship. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 5, 2015, archived from the original on May 5, 2015 ; accessed on July 11, 2015 .
  15. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 260 kB) After 2015 Australian Goldfields Open. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , July 6, 2015, accessed July 11, 2015 .

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SURNAME White, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION welsh snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Neath , Wales