Mark Selby

Mark Selby ( born June 19, 1983 in Leicester) is a professional snooker and pool player from England.

Career

Since 1999, Selby 's professional billiards. His first major success at the Snooker main tour was reaching the final of the Regal Scottish Open 2003, where he lost to David Gray. In the Snooker world rankings for the 2005/ 06 season he was one of the first among the top 32

In 2006 he won the World Championship in WEPF Black Ball, the English version of 8 - ball. Then he decided to focus in the future on all snooker.

After he had reached the World Cup finals in 2005 and 2006, he became the unseeded player at the 2007 World Cup of the walkover into the final, which had done before him only two players (1979 and 2005 Terry Griffiths Shaun Murphy). He showed particular strength of nerve, as he was able in the quarter and semifinal away each rotate only one frame from leaving the game and win the final and decisive frame. In the final, he made ​​an unsuccessful 1:7 session and a backlog of 4:12 after the first day of the final almost compensated with a 6-0 series on the second day. However, he was defeated at the end of John Higgins in a clock until 0.55 GMT lasting match with 13:18.

With his success in this tournament for the first time, he managed to make it into the top 16 snooker players in the world, in the official world rankings for the 2007 /08 season, he was ranked 11th

On 13 December 2007 Selby played at the UK Championship in the quarterfinal match against Marco Fu with 77 minutes the longest frame that has ever played in a television broadcast of a world ranking tournament. With its semi-finals he belonged in this tournament in the provisional ranking of the provisional world rankings, the five best snooker players.

On 20 January 2008 he took at the Masters with a 10-3 victory in the final against Stephen Lee his first title on the main tour. He was first attempted in the traditional invitational tournament and also scored in the final in the last frame with 141 points, the highest break of the tournament ( along with Ken Doherty ).

His first world ranking tournament won Selby on February 17, 2008, when he sat down by 9-8 in the final of the Welsh Open against the leading at this point in the provisional ranking Ronnie O'Sullivan, although he had already been set back to 5:8. He was one of only three players to have won two tournaments this season. Other good results promoted him at the end of the season to # 4 on the official world rankings. His surprising first round defeat at the World Cup final prevented from doing even better.

In the 2008 /09 season Selby reached in both invitation tournaments, the Jiangsu Classic and the Masters, the final, but none was able to win it. In the world ranking tournaments he scored two quarterfinals, and at the subsequent World Championships he lost in the quarterfinals to eventual champion John Higgins. Thus he lost a lot of points, so that he fell back to number 7 in the world rankings.

The following season began among others, two Erstrundenniederlagen in ranking tournaments. In January 2010 he had his first experience of success. In his third appearance at the Masters Selby reached the final for the third time and this time sat down with 10:9 against Ronnie O'Sullivan by. He secured his second Masters title. The semi-final defeat at the ( 14:17 against Graeme Dott ) Snooker World Cup was his best result in a ranking tournament this season. He lost it again two places one, before the season 2010/11 he is in the world ranking 9th place

In the season 2010/11 Selby won the second tournament of the newly introduced Players Tour Championship (PTC, there are fewer points than the ranking tournaments distributed ). In the German Masters, he reached the final, where he lost to Mark Williams in February 2011. Two months later he was at the China Open again in the finals, this time losing to Judd Trump. In August 2011, Selby won the Paul Hunter Classic 2011 his second PTC tournament, thus consolidating its top position in the provisional Snooker world rankings. Finally, his second victory in a full-fledged world ranking tournament of the Main Tour - At the next Shanghai Masters he succeeded - more than three years after winning the Welsh Open.

In August 2012, he was able to defeat the Northern Irishman Joe Swail in the final 4-1, defending his title from last year at the Paul Hunter Classic in Fürth. After he has since been supplanted by Judd Trump of first place in the world rankings, he succeeded with his victory at the UK Championship in 2012 the return to the top of the rankings. With its 4-3 final against Graeme Dott at the Munich Open 2013 he won in the 2012/13 season and the second PTC tournament in Germany.

In November 2013 Selby won the Open Antwerp in Antwerp, Belgium. By a 4:3 in the finals over Ronnie O'Sullivan, he secured his fifth overall title at a tournament in the PTC series. In the semi-finals of the UK Championship in 2013 against Ricky Walden he played the 100 maximum break.

Achievements

Ranking Tournaments

  • Welsh Open - 2008
  • Shanghai Masters - 2011
  • UK Championship - 2012

Minor ranking tournaments

  • PTC Event 2-2010
  • Paul Hunter Classic - 2011, 2012
  • Munich Open - 2013
  • Antwerp Open - 2013

Invitation Tournaments

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