Mitchell Mann

Mitchell Mann
birthday	26th December 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Birmingham
nationality	England
professional	2014–2018, since 2019
Prize money	£ 130,488 (As of August 31, 2020)
Highest break	142 International Championship 2014
Century Breaks	31 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	70 (June 2016)
Current WRL location	91 (as of August 17, 2020)

Mitchell Mann (born December 26, 1991 in Birmingham ) is an English snooker player .

Career

Beginnings

As a child, Mitchell Mann played soccer at the Blues Academy, the youth of Birmingham City . At the age of eight, however, he developed the bone disease Perthes' disease and he had to give up this sport. At the age of ten he discovered snooker and became a successful youth player. Among other things, he won the junior edition of the Pot Black tournament at the Crucible Theater at the age of 15 .

From then on, Mann tried to qualify for the Snooker Main Tour and took part in the tournaments of the Pontin's International Open Series from the 2007/08 season . In the three following seasons he just missed qualifying by just one win. With the introduction of the Players Tour Championship , he also regularly took part in the events of this tournament series that were open to amateurs. In the very first tournament in Sheffield in June 2010, he had a surprise win against Shaun Murphy , who later won the tour final. The other performances were not enough to secure a place on the Main Tour with the Order of Merit , just like his appearance in the Q School , the PIOS successor tournament . Although he was already more successful the following year, he again missed qualifying for the professional tour. In the Q School 2012 he lost the decisive match against Robbie Williams . But he was allowed to compete in the qualification of the Australian Goldfields Open 2012 and made it into the last 64.

For two more years Mitchell Mann tried unsuccessfully in the two tournament series, even if further victories against professional players like Liang Wenbo were added. In 2014 he achieved his greatest success to date. At the European Championship held in the Bulgarian capital Sofia , he won the title. This success entitled him to take part in the Main Tour as a professional in the next two seasons.

Professional years

2014/15 season

His first major success in his first professional season 2014/15 came at the International Championship , where he reached the last 32 through qualification and wildcard round. He also won individual games in PTC tournaments. Only in the final World Cup did he get two wins over Alfie Burden and Gerard Greene and he missed the main tournament by just one round. This brought him to number 88 in the world rankings .

2015/16 season

In the following year he achieved three opening wins in ranking tournaments, in addition he reached the last 32 at the Ruhr Open for the first time and at the Gdynia Open for the first time even the second round of a PTC tournament. At the World Cup he defeated Matthew Selt and Dechawat Poomjaeng 10: 9 each and made it into the Crucible Theater for the first time . Although this brought him a lot of prize money for the world rankings, he missed the further qualification for the Main Tour in 70th place. However, he was third among the non-professionals in the PTC ranking and immediately received a new start for the professional tour for two years.

Season 2016/17

The 2016/17 season began for Mann with a 4-0 defeat in qualifying for the Riga Masters against Yan Bingtao . Right at the next tournament, the Indian Open , he managed to defeat Michael Holt and move into the main round, where he was eliminated 1: 4 against Andrew Higginson . In qualifying for the World Open , he lost 3: 5 to Oliver Lines . At the Paul Hunter Classic , which was continued after the loss of the PTC, he lost in the first round 2: 4 to Rod Lawler . In qualifying for the Shanghai Masters he lost 5-0 to Michael Georgiou , at the European Masters he also lost in qualifying, this time 4-1 to Ashley Hugill . At the English Open - the first tournament in the newly introduced Home Nations Series - he lost 4-0 to Ding Junhui in the first round . He also defeated him in the qualification for the International Championship , this time with 5: 6 much closer. At the Northern Ireland Open man defeated Thor Chuan Leong 4-1, but then lost 4-0 to Fergal O'Brien . In the UK Championship , he defeated Kyren Wilson 6-3 and Sam Baird 6-2, before losing 6-3 to Zhang Anda in the round of 32 . In the same round he also advanced at the Scottish Open , after defeating Sam Baird 4-2 and Anthony McGill 4-1, he lost 4-1 to Sean O'Sullivan . The Scot Stephen Maguire gave him his first defeat in 2017 with a 4: 5 in the first qualifying round for the German Masters. At the Welsh Open he lost a 4: 1 win over Michael Holt and a 4: 2 win over Sean O'Sullivan 2-4 against Kurt Maflin . In the shoot-out he lost to Graeme Dott in the first round. At the Pro / Am tournament Gibraltar Open he defeated David Grace 4: 3, but then lost 3: 4 to Rhys Clark . At the China Open he lost 4-5 to Mark Joyce in qualifying . In the first round of the World Snooker Championship he lost 3:10 to Mark Davis . Mann finished the season at number 92 in the world .

Season 2017/18

The 2017/18 season started for Mann with a 4-1 defeat in qualifying for the Riga Masters against Ben Woollaston . In qualifying for the China Championship he lost 4-5 to David Gilbert . A big surprise was the Paul Hunter Classic , where, after victories over Daniel Wells , Mark Joyce and three amateurs, he advanced to the semi-finals, where he lost 4-1 to eventual tournament winner Michael White . Two defeats followed: In qualifying for the Indian Open he lost 4-1 to Ashley Hugill and in qualifying for the World Open 2: 5 to Matthew Selt . He reached the main round of the European Masters by beating Jackson Page 4-0 , then lost 4-0 to Stuart Bingham . In the first round of the English Open he defeated Leo Fernandez 4: 3, but then lost 4: 0 to Andrew Higginson . In qualifying for the International Championship he lost 4-6 against Martin Gould . He reached the main round of the Shanghai Masters with a 5-3 win over Ricky Walden , but then lost 4-5 to Fergal O'Brien . At the Northern Ireland Open he lost 4-1 to Duane Jones . At the UK Championship he defeated Stuart Carrington 6-2, then lost to Liang Wenbo 6-1. At the Scottish Open he came after a 4: 3 win over Hossein Vafaei in round 2, where he had to admit defeat to Chris Totten 3: 4. After a 5-0 win over Zhang Yong , he lost 4-5 in the decisive qualifying round for the German Masters against the defending champion Anthony Hamilton at the time . In the shoot-out he lost 0:62 on points against Martin O'Donnell in the first round. At the Welsh Open he lost 4-0 to Michael Georgiou in the first round . At the Gibraltar Open he was only eliminated in round two with 2: 4 against Matthew Selt. In the qualification for the China Open he failed 4-6 to Mike Dunn . At the Snooker World Championship he defeated Peter Lines in the first qualifying round , but lost in the second round to Ryan Day 1:10. Mann finished the season at number 92 in the world , which meant he lost his Main Tour place.

Further career progression

You then try to qualify through the Q School . In the first tournament he lost 3: 4 to Michael Judge in the first round . In the second tournament , Mann defeated, among others, Chen Zhe and David Lilley , so that he moved into the final of his group, where he had to admit defeat to Lu Ning . In the last tournament you only reached the round of 64, where he had to admit defeat to Wang Yuchen . Although he could not qualify again, his good results gave him a place in the Challenge Tour . There he had to admit defeat to ex-professional David Grace in the final of the second event . Shortly afterwards he was allowed to play in qualifying for the Indian Open , but had to admit defeat to Liang Wenbo .

successes

output	year	competition	Final opponent	Result
Amateur tournaments
winner	2007	Junior Pot Black	Jack Lisowski	76:23 (on points)
winner	2014	European Championship	John Whitty	7: 2
Second	2018	Q School	Lu Ning	2: 4
Second	2018	Challenge Tour - Event 2	David Grace	0: 3
winner	2018	Challenge Tour - Event 4	Dylan Emery	3-0

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Profile of Mitchell Mann on CueTracker (as of June 1, 2018)
2. ↑ Centuries by Mitchell Mann in Season 2014-2015. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed August 2, 2015 . 
3. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 358 kB) After The 2016 Betfred World Championship. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , accessed May 3, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Global Snooker Player Profile - On the table , Global Snooker, accessed on September 17, 2014 ( Memento from November 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ Mann wins European Championship to book World Snooker Tour place ( Memento from July 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Michael Beardmore, Sutton Coldfield Observer, June 12, 2014
6. ↑ PIOS 2008/09 (end of season), accessed on September 17, 2014
7. ↑ Ron Florax: Mitchell Mann - Season 2016-2017 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, 2017, archived from the original on August 26, 2018 ; accessed on August 26, 2018 (English).  
8. ↑ World Rankings. WPBSA , May 2, 2017, archived from the original on August 26, 2018 ; accessed on August 26, 2018 (English).  
9. ↑ Ron Florax: Mitchell Mann - Season 2017-2018 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, 2018, archived from the original on August 26, 2018 ; accessed on August 26, 2018 (English).  
10. ↑ World Rankings. WPBSA , May 7, 2018, archived from the original on August 26, 2018 ; accessed on August 26, 2018 (English). 

Web links

Commons : Mitchell Mann  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mitchell Mann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography in the Pro Snooker Blog (English)
• Player profile at World Snooker (English)
• Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)