Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon

Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon ( Thai: ธน วั ฒ น์ ถิร พงศ์ ไพบูลย์, Call Name: Maen - แมน, Nickname: Thainamo - ไทย นา ไม ท์; * December 14, 1993 in Nakhon Pathom, Central Thailand ) is a professional snooker player.

Career

After reaching the semi-finals at the Asian Championships in 2010 he was nominated for the Snooker Main Tour in the Season 2010/11 from the Asian Association ACBS. After the first update of the Snooker world rankings in October 2010, he was ranked No. 83, after the Shanghai Masters 2010, he survived the first three qualifying rounds, among others, and failed only in the fourth to Mark Davis.

In the third tournament of the Euro - Players Tour Championship, he managed in the Round of 32 against Barry Hawkins, the 74th official maximum break of snooker history. He is 16 years old the youngest player ever to succeed such a break in an official match.

When German Masters 2011, he reached a final for the first time in a full-fledged world ranking tournament, but failed in round 1 of former world champion Graeme Dott with 1:5. At the end of the season he had, the Main Tour for the time being leave. In July 2011 he won the IBSF U -21 World Cup.

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