Shokat Ali

Shokat Ali ( born March 4, 1970 in Accrington, Lancashire ) is a former professional snooker player.

Career

Ali was born in England, but resigned in tournaments for Pakistan, the homeland of his ancestors, to.

In 1991 he turned professional and worked slowly in Snooker world rankings before. His most best individual result was the rise in the second round of the Grand Prix in 1998, where he defeated, among others, Jimmy White. There was also a gold medal at the Asian Games 1998. For the snooker season 1998/99 was conducted at No. 49 in the world rankings, before falling back somewhat in the next two years.

This changed with the renewed reaching a world ranking tournament knockout round, this time at the Thailand Masters 2001., Where he met the three -time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan, he surprisingly defeated with 5:4. In the quarterfinals, he then failed to Ken Doherty. By this success he came into the world rankings at No. 34

Also in 2001 he won the bronze medal at the World Games in Akita. In the following years he could not move any further major successes on the Main Tour Snooker, partly due to the loss of his Queues 2005.

After the 2006/ 07 season he missed the qualifier for the next Main Tour season. He was subsequently for some time as a snooker player active, most recently in 2010 as an amateur at the PTC tournaments. Together with Stuart Pettman he runs a snooker club in Preston.