Michael Wasley

Michael Wasley (born 23 February 1990) is an English snooker player. He lives in Gloucester.

Career

As an amateur

To make the leap to the pros on the main tour took Wasley between 2006 and 2010 in the tournaments of the Pontin's International Open Series part. Twice the catchment he succeeded in doing in the first knockout round: in 2006 he failed to Matthew Selt and 2009 to Liam Highfield. In the 2009/10 season, he DIOS achieved his best result at the 36th place in the overall rankings.

In the season 2010/ 11, the Q School solved the DIOS series as a qualification tournament series for amateurs: while it 2011 managed Wasley only once to the quarter- finals of his group, he finally secured in 2012 with a 4-3 final victory in the third tournament against Fraser Patrick is a two - year tour ticket for the 2012/13 and 2013/14 season.

Also, in tournaments the seasons 2010/11 and 2011/12 Players Tour Championship to Wasley already tried with professional players of the Main Tour to measure. He reached four times the round of last 32, defeating amongst other things players like Alfie Burden or Dave Harold.

One of his greatest successes at junior level was the finals at the Junior Snooker EBSA European Championship 2009. In the final he lost to the Belgian Luca Brecel with almost 5:6.

As a professional

In his first season as a professional Wasley reached the final round of a full ranking tournament after he qualified with victories over Jack Lisowski and Peter Ebdon for the round of the last 32 of the German Masters in 2013 in Berlin. His best result in a minor ranking tournament was reaching the second round for the PTC Event 4 He defeated there, Ryan Day, Liu Chuang and Kurt Maflin.