Thor Chuan Leong

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Thor Chuan Leong
Thor Chuan Leong
birthday 24th March 1988 (age 32)
nationality MalaysiaMalaysia Malaysia
professional 2014–
Prize money £ 50,762 (as of August 31, 2020)
Highest break 139 ( English Open 2017 )
Century Breaks 13 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 83 (September 2016)
Current WRL location 98 (as of August 17, 2020)

Thor Chuan Leong (born March 24, 1988 ), also known as Rory Thor , is a Malaysian snooker player .

Career

Thor Chuan Leong drew international attention for the first time at the U-21 World Cup in 2007, where he survived the group phase and then lost just 4: 5 to eventual tournament winner Michael Georgiou . In 2009 and 2010 he took part in the amateur world championship and made it to the round of 16 in the second year. He was particularly successful in Asia. As the youngest player to date, he won the national championship of Malaysia in 2009 at the age of 21 . Four more titles followed in 2013/14 and 2016/17. In 2007 he won his first team medal at the Southeast Asian Games, in 2011 he won gold in doubles for the first time, and in 2013 he was the winner in 6-red snooker . His breakthrough as a single player came in 2014. At the Amateur World Cup, he repeated his round of 16 and after winning three other local amateur tournaments immediately before, he won the title at the Amateur Asian Cup . At the Southeast Asian Games he won gold in singles the following year.

As the Asian champion, he automatically got the right to start the Snooker Main Tour of professional players for the 2014/15 season and the following year. This made him the third professional snooker from Malaysia. However, he missed most of his first season, only towards the end did he appear four times in the qualifications taking place in England for the world ranking tournaments and lost all opening matches. At the Welsh Open he at least forced the eventual world champion Stuart Bingham into the decisive frame and he was also able to keep his world championship game against Jimmy Robertson open until 7: 8 before he lost 7:10.

He only had his first successes in the 2015/16 season at the tournaments of the Players Tour Championship (PTC). At the Riga Open he had his first professional win against Stuart Carrington and at the Paul Hunter Classic he defeated, among others, Liang Wenbo and Rod Lawler and lost just 3: 4 to Ian Burns in the round of 16 . At the Gibraltar Open he reached round 3 and at the Gdynia Open he came under the last 16 for the second time and previously defeated Ding Junhui 4-1. In addition, he lost all first round matches in the major ranking tournaments without exception. As a result, he could not establish himself in the top 100 in the world rankings . In the “Order of Merit” of the Players Tour Championship he had placed himself so well through his success that he was the best player among those who could not otherwise qualify for the Main Tour. In 2016 he received another tour card for the following two seasons through this ranking.

In the 2016/17 season there were no more PTC tournaments and the Malaysian started again with two opening defeats. At the World Open 2016 he survived the qualification against Jack Lisowski for the first time and at the main tournament in China he also defeated Luca Brecel and made it into the round of 32. At the Shanghai Masters he reached the third qualifying round and at the Gibraltar Open 2017 he was in the bottom 32 for a second time. This brought him up to 86th place in the rankings, but longer series of opening defeats at important tournaments kept him back. In the adjusted ranking at the beginning of the 2017/18 season, he took his highest career position with 83rd place. But instead of moving towards the top 64 who stayed on the Main Tour after each season, he struggled to keep falling back. In the first four tournaments he lost the first game again. Only at the English Open did he return to the third round after victories over Graeme Dott and Cao Yupeng . But he only won two more matches this season and so he lost his professional status for the second time in 2018. He immediately tried to get back on the main tour through the Q School . Only in the third tournament he reached the playoff and with a 4-1 win over Fang Xiongman he secured two more years as a professional.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments (minor ranking):

Amateur tournaments:

Southeast Asian Games :

  • Individual: gold (2015), silver (2009), bronze (2011, 2013)
  • Doubles: gold (2011, 2015), silver (2009), bronze (2017)
  • Team: Silver (2007)
  • 6-Red-Snooker : single gold (2013), double bronze (2013)

swell

  1. ↑ Profile of Thor Chuan Leong on CueTracker (as of October 31, 2018)
  2. ↑ Players on the Main Tour 2017/2018. (PDF) In: snooker.org. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 20, 2016, accessed May 25, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Ajitpal Singh . Rory Thor Chuan Leong Lifetime Achivement Vol 1. Original Omin, 21. April 2011, accessed on July 30, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Lim Teik Huat: Chuan Leong is Asian Snooker champ. The Star Online, May 3, 2014, accessed July 30, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Thor, Chuan Leong
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thor, Rory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION malaysian snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1988