Michael White (snooker player)
Michael White (* 5 July 1991 in Neath ) is a Welsh snooker player.
Career
Hinted at a very young age his talent and White came in 2001 even in the Guinness Book of World Records, as he scored a CenturyBreak at the age of only nine years.
As a 14 - year-old he won the IBSF World Grand Prix 2006, a year later the U19 European Championship, which enabled him to participate in the Snooker main tour for the following season. The first tournament of the professional tour, the Shanghai Masters 2007, he had to sit there because he had not yet reached the age of 16, which was a prerequisite for participation in professional tournaments. The rest of the season 2007/ 08 he was then eligible to play, but could not earn enough world ranking points, to assert itself on the tour.
However, he succeeded in re- qualification on the national ranking of Wales, so he returned to the professional tour for the 2009/10 season. In qualifying for the UK Championship in 2010, he won three games and so reached the round of 48, which represented his hitherto best result at a major tournament. At the end of the season he was sixth- best rookie on the tour, which he was able to secure his whereabouts on this.
The following season was largely solid for him. His best results were a place in the quarter -finals of a PTC tournament and reaching the third qualifying round of the World Snooker Championship in 2011 and the UK Championship in 2010 and the fourth and final qualifying round at the Shanghai Masters 2010. At the end of the season, he ranked 66th in the world rankings and was able to hold on the prize money ranking of the PTC tournaments on the professional tour.
After another consistently good performances at the beginning of the 2011/12 season - including a semi-final place at the Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy 2011 - he first came among the top 64 in the world rankings.
Through victory against Zhang Anda and Andrew Higginson, he qualified for the World Snooker Championship 2013., Where he succeeded in the first round off the two-time former world champion Mark J. Williams with a 10:6 victory. In the second round he defeated Dechawat Poomjaeng significantly with 13:3 before he was defeated in the quarterfinals Ricky Walden at 6:13.