Michael Wild

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Michael Wild
Michael Wild
birthday 27th March 1981 (age 39)
nationality EnglandEngland England
professional 2003/04; 2015-2017
Prize money £ 25,207
Highest break 138
Century Breaks 20th
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 82 (May – June 2016)

Michael Wild (born March 27, 1981 ) is an English snooker player from Oldham .

Career

Beginnings and main tour year

Michael Wild first played in a snooker club at the age of 11 and got his own snooker table at the age of 12. Only four years later he played for the first time on the Snooker Main Tour . In the Masters Wildcard tournament he reached round 3 and in his first World Cup he won the opening match. He also took part in the UK Tour to secure a permanent place in the professional field. However, he did not succeed in this, although he repeatedly survived one or the other round at the world championships.

In the 2001/02 season he made small progress for the first time in the qualifying tournaments of the Challenge Tour and reached the round of 64 in the Masters wildcard tournament. The following year he achieved great success, he achieved that twice in the Challenge tournaments Round of 16 and secured a Main Tour spot as one of the six best in the Tour ranking. He played in all major tournaments, but only at the British Open he achieved two wins and place 121 in the snooker world rankings . After only one year he had to go back to the Challenge Tour, where a round of 16 as the best result was not enough this time.

In the 2005/06 season , the Challenge Tour was replaced by the Pontin's International Open Series . In the very first tournament, Wild reached the semifinals and had further good results, but then lost his opening game in the last two tournaments and did not get beyond 15th place overall. That year he won the Dutch Open with a 6-5 final win over Mark King . Two years later he again reached a semi-final at the Challenge Tour and even the final in the tournament that followed, but other poor results again prevented him from jumping into the top eight in the overall standings who were allowed to go on the Main Tour. Even in the last two years of the PIOS qualification, he always played in the midfield, but was never one of the winners.

Qualification attempts and late tour return

In the 2010/11 season there were several innovations in professional snooker. Amateurs were allowed to play in the Players Tour Championship , a minor ranking series of the Main Tour, and Michael Wild reached the second main round twice, including one at the Paul Hunter Classic in Fürth, with victories against the professionals Kuldesh Johal and Adrian Gunnell . Also new from this season was the Q School , where you could qualify directly for the Main Tour in three tournaments. In the second tournament he failed in the decisive group final despite a 3-1 lead with 3: 4 against David Morris . The following year he could not quite repeat these results, but at least reached the semi-finals and the quarter-finals of his Q-School group. This made him one of the best non-qualified players and was allowed to take part in the qualifying rounds of the world rankings as an amateur the following year. At the Australian Open he defeated Simon Bedford and Steve Davis and clearly missed the leap into the main tournament against Ken Doherty . At the Paul Hunter Classic 2012 he reached the first sixteen at a PTC tournament, including a 4-0 win over Marcus Campbell , and again it was Doherty who stopped him, but this time just 4: 3. He lost two more times this season with the same result to the Irish.

In 2013 Wild did not take part in the Q School, so that he could only play on the Players Tour afterwards, but did not achieve any special results. After missing the Main Tour qualification again after a semi-final at Q School in 2014, he stayed away from both the PTC tournaments and the Q School the following year. However, he played successfully in the English Ranking Series and became number one in the English ranking. This helped him to a starting place at the amateur European championship . There he also played successfully and defeated the young German player Lukas Kleckers in the semi-finals . In the final he prevailed 7-4 against the Welshman Jamie Rhys Clarke and won the title. But since the European champion was also allowed to start the Main Tour, he returned to professional snooker at the age of 34. For the following two seasons, he got the right to start in all professional tournaments.

However, he lost his first match in the 2015/16 season in the Shanghai Masters qualification with a 5-0 defeat against Liam Highfield . In the qualification for the International Championship he surprisingly won 6-0 against world number seven Judd Trump , but in the main tournament he lost again 6-0 against Sanderson Lam . Only played a few more tournaments this season and lost all other matches. Only in the following season did he win again at the European Masters , where he made it into the round of the last 32 of a full ranking tournament for the first time.

titles and achievements

Web links

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

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  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Michael Wild at CueTracker (as of August 14, 2018)
  2. ↑ Tour Players 2016/2017. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , June 1, 2016, accessed June 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Keith McHugh: It's enough to drive you wild! Oldham Evening Chronicle, December 28, 2011, accessed August 5, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Rankings - 2003-2004. CueTracker, accessed August 5, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Interconnect Open (forum post). Snookerforum.be, December 2, 2007, accessed August 5, 2015 .
  6. ^ Q School 2011: Event Two Qualifiers. Pro Snooker Blog, May 22, 2011, accessed August 5, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Oldham's Michael Wild has earned himself two shots ... (Facebook post). English Association of Snooker and Billiards, May 5, 2015, accessed August 5, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Andreas Cieslak: European Snooker Championship 2015 in Prague - Michael Wild stops Kleckers in the semifinals. Snooker Club 147 Essen, June 13, 2015, accessed on August 5, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Wild, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1981