Munraj Pal

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Munraj Pal
birthday 21st April 1976 (age 44)
nationality EnglandEngland England
Nickname (s) Palster
professional 1995–1997, 1998–2001, 2002–2004, 2007/08
Prize money £ 59,350
Highest break 144
Century Breaks 23
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 85 (2004)

Munraj Pal (born April 21, 1976 ) is an English snooker player from Derby . Between 1995 and 2008 he was active as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour for a total of 8 seasons .

Career

Munraj Pal was already collecting Derby titles in his hometown at the age of 14 and in 1993 he won the Derbyshire Championship . The following year he reached the final of the southern group in the English Amateur Championship . A year later he failed there in the semifinals to Paul Hunter .

From 1995 he took part in the open professional tour and already at his first tournament of the 1995/96 season , the Thailand Classic , he missed the round of 128 just by one win. At the UK Championship he just failed to Dominic Dale . At the European Open he made it for the first time and even went one round with a 5-3 win over Jason Weston . At the World Championships he reached round 5. The second year was not so successful and only at the Thailand Open he came up to the last 128. So he did not make it into the top 200 in the world rankings and did not qualify for the Main Tour, which was limited from 1997 onwards. Instead, he had to try the WPBSA Qualifying School and the UK Tour to regain professional status. While the qualifying school tournaments were unsuccessful without a single win, he made it to the semi-finals at the fourth tournament of the UK Tour and overall he made the tour return. In the 1998/99 season , however, he did not get any remarkable results, but he was still able to hold on to the Main Tour. The following year he made it to the last 96 four times, including at the World Cup after beating Stephen O'Connor 10-8 . He repeated the result at the 2001 World Cup with a victory over Mick Price . Immediately before that, he had achieved his best career result at the Scottish Open by reaching the round of 48. He won against Tony Knowles , Willie Thorne , Marcus Campbell and Michael Holt and then had to admit defeat to James Wattana . By then he had already finished almost all tournaments in round 1 in the 2000/01 season , which is why he only improved slightly to 120th place in the ranking and no longer qualified for the Main Tour according to the new criteria.

Again, Pal returned after just one year for the 2002/03 season. He had his best result with the round of 64 at the European Open, after defeating Mark Selby among others . At the Welsh Open he reached round 3 and three more times, including again at the World Championship , he came under the bottom 96. The following year he reached the bottom 64 at the Irish Masters . Twice, at the European Open and the World Championship , came he in round 3. So he reached number 85 in the two-year ranking of the world, but only the top 64 remained on the tour and so he lost his professional status for the third time.

He tried to return via the Challenge Tour , but despite two round of 16, it was not enough in 2005. The following year, the Pontin's International Open Series (PIOS) was launched with 8 instead of 4 qualification tournaments. This time he reached a semi-final, a quarter-finals and two round of 16, but in the overall standings he only finished 14th out of 8 free places on the Main Tour. He started the following PIOS tour with a victory at the first tournament 6: 3 in the final over Kurt Maflin . Two more times he reached the quarter-finals, twice the last sixteen and thus third place in the accounting of all 8 tournaments.

At the age of 31 he returned to the Main Tour in the 2007/08 season . But he lost almost every opening game, even at the Grand Prix he did not make it into the main tournament despite 4 wins in the group phase. Only the UK Championship was a successful tournament. With victories over Issara Kachaiwong and Joe Delaney , he was among the last 64. To stay on the main tour, that was not enough. After retiring again, he ended his professional career.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

  • Winner: PIOS (2006/07 - Tournament 1)

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Munraj Pal on CueTracker (as of January 19, 2018)
  2. ↑ PIOS 2005/06 Top 20 (forum contribution). havenforum.co.uk, May 13, 2006, accessed January 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Pontin's International Open Series 2006/2007 ( Memento from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Pal, Munraj
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1976