Quinten Hann

Quinten Hann (born 4 June 1977) is an Australian snooker and former snooker player.

Career

Hann began his career as a professional snooker in 1995. During the season 1999/2000 he was number 26 for the first time among the top 32 of the snooker world rankings. In the years 02/ 03 and 03/ 04 he managed twice in succession his best world ranking of 14th place in the 03/ 04 season also falls his best performance in a ranking tournament by reaching the semi-finals of the Irish Masters.

In early 2006, ended his career prematurely due to allegations of reporters from the British tabloid The Sun that he had taken of them offers for match-fixing for betting fraud. At two hearings of the World Snooker Association, he did not appear and was blocked in the absence of eight years. Most recently, he was ranked 22 in the world rankings.

Then Hann aspired to a career on the U.S. International Pool Tour, after he had already become 1999 World Champion in the Black Ball after WEPF rules.

Quinten Hann was considered a bird of paradise or as an enfant terrible of the snooker scene. At the Grand Prix in 2001 he made, for example, the audience and opponent Anthony Hamilton inappropriate gestures, what this complained after the game in an interview. During the World Snooker Championship 2004, he demanded, after a defeat against the qualifiers Andy Hicks, this even to a boxing match out. In the following, then it actually came to a fight against Mark King, who stood up for Hicks. Both were preparing for professional and earned an ABA boxing license. The battle won Hann.

Also off the table of the Australian was often in the headlines, so he had to answer several times in court.