Supoj Saenla

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Supoj Saenla
birthday August 15, 1980
place of birth Chiang Mai
nationality ThailandThailand Thailand
professional 2003/04, 2007-2009
Prize money £ 15,285
Highest break 128
Century Breaks 7th
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 72 (2008/09)

Supoj Saenla ( Thai สุ พจน์ แสน หล้า ; born August 15, 1980 in Chiang Mai ), nickname Jack Chiang Mai ( Thai แจ็ ค เชียงใหม่ ), is a Thai snooker player . In the 2000s he played for three seasons as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour .

Career

Supoj Saenla started playing snooker at the age of 12. The international snooker world first noticed him when he won the U21 Asian Championship in 2001 and did not lose a single frame from the quarterfinals to the finals. Then he also played in the U21 World Cup , despite a sovereign group round without defeat, but he lost in the first elimination game. His first appearance in 2002 at the World Amateur Championship also ended in the bottom 32. At the Asian Games that year he lost the final against Ding Junhui and took silver.

In the 2003/04 season he was allowed to take part in the professional tour for the first time. It was not until the fourth tournament that he scored his first win. In the Masters qualifying event , which was not a ranking tournament , he defeated Jin Long , against whom he had already won in 2001 in his Asian title in the semi-finals. When Irish Masters and the World Championship he scored two more victories, but in the ranking, he made enough progress to continue to stay on the tour. The following year he played four Challenge Tour tournaments in order to qualify again, but a single quarter-final as the best result was not enough for one of the 6 Main Tour places.

Then he played amateur tournaments again and reached the second round at the 2006 Amateur World Cup . The following year he won the Asian Cup . This time he only lost one frame in the last three rounds, against Jin Long in a 6-1 victory in the semifinals. He won the final 7-0 against Yasin Merchant . With this victory he qualified for the main tour for the second time.

In the 2007/08 season he was the very first tournament, the Shanghai Masters , with a bye and a 5: 4 victory over Marcus Campbell below the last 64. In the UK Championship , he defeated Tian Pengfei and in the World Cup ended Season as it began. A close 10: 9 win over David Morris and a bye put him in the last 64. There he had no chance against Alan McManus . But these were the only victories and he was lucky that he just reached 8th place in the one-year ranking and stayed on the Main Tour. The following year, the Grand Prix was his most successful tournament, reaching the bottom 64 for the third time. With two wins at the two major tournaments, the World Cup and the UK Championship, he didn't score enough points to make it 72nd at the beginning of the season and with that he lost his professional status for the second time.

He only entered a professional tournament once: thanks to a wildcard , he was allowed to take part in the 2010 China Open , but lost to Rod Lawler at the beginning . As an amateur, he won the gold medal a year earlier at the Southeast Asian Games with a victory over Thor Chuan Leong from Malaysia . There were also two round of 16 at the Amateur World Cup and the Asian Cup, then from 2011 onwards he no longer appeared internationally.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Amateur tournaments:

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Supoj Saenla on CueTracker (as of January 12, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b player profile at Cuethong. Cuethong, accessed January 12, 2018 (Thai).
  3. ↑ Supoj clinches National Championship at SangSom Nong Khai Cup. ThaiBev, August 31, 2009, accessed January 12, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Saenla, Supoj
BRIEF DESCRIPTION thai snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Chiang Mai , Thailand