Gary Wilson (snooker player)
Gary Wilson (born 11 August 1985) is an English snooker player from Wallsend.
Career
For the first time Gary Wilson drew attention to himself at the U19 European Championship in 2003 in Latvia. A year later he won the title at the U21 World Cup. Already in the 2004/05 season he was then for the first time on the professional tour. Success in qualifying for the China Open and the Irish Masters, where he pushed forward to the Round of 48, he was able to secure another Main Tour year. But the second year was not as successful and he lost his professional status.
In the coming years, Wilson fought repeatedly to return to the tour, but failed regularly at the DIOS and Q School tournaments. 2011 and 2012, he failed each time just before reaching the qualifying match. In 2012 he reached the final, which he lost but at the Amateur World Championship. The re- qualify for the main tour he finally succeeded on the Players Tour Championship. In the 2012/13 season he collected, though he never got beyond the first knockout round, with stable performance enough points for third place in the amateur class.
The snooker season 2013/14 started Gary Wilson with a win against James Wattana in the qualifiers for the Wuxi Classic 2013. Based on the amended tournament already marked his first appearance in the main round of a world ranking tournament in the round of 64 With the Bulgarian Open, the first PTC tournament of the season, he defeated two top -24 players before losing narrowly to Barry Hawkins. When qualifying for the German Masters in 2014 he succeeded the 102 maximum break of snooker history.