Elliot Slessor

Elliot Slessor
Born (1994-08-04) 4 August 1994
Gateshead
Sport country  England
Professional 2013–2015, 2016–
Highest ranking 86 (July–August 2014)[1]
Current ranking 105 (as of 31 October 2016)
Career winnings £15,683[2]
Highest break 136 (2014 Australian Goldfields Open Qualifying)
Century breaks 3[2]
Best ranking finish Last 32 (2015 China Open)

Elliot Slessor (born 4 August 1994) is an English professional snooker player.

In May 2013, Slessor qualified for the 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the first Q School event.[3]

Career

Slessor began playing snooker at the age of eight after his grandfather bought him a table for Christmas. He joined the main snooker tour in May 2013 after he won through Qualifying School courtesy of a 4–0 victory over Chris Wakelin.[4]

2013/2014 season

Slessor's first wins as a professional were at the qualifying rounds of the 2013 Australian Goldfields Open 5–4 against Jamie Rhys Clarke and 5–2 against Cao Yupeng, before losing 5–2 to Simon Bedford.[5] His debut at the main stage of a ranking event came at the Indian Open by seeing off Kurt Maflin 4–2. In New Delhi he lost 4–2 to Mark Davis. Slessor also suffered first round exits at the UK Championship and Welsh Open 6–2 to Liang Wenbo and 4–1 to Stephen Maguire respectively.[5] He finished his first season on tour ranked world number 112.[6]

2014/2015 season

Slessor automatically played in the opening rounds of the UK Championship and Welsh Open, where he was knocked out 6–4 by David Gilbert and 4–3 by Jamie Cope.[7] He qualified for the China Open by coming back from 3–1 down against Xiao Guodong to win 5–4.[8] He then raced into a 3–0 lead over Matthew Selt and held on to beat him 5–3 and play in the last 32 of a ranking event for the first time in his career.[9] Slessor faced reigning world champion Mark Selby and was thrashed 5–0.[10] He played in Q School to try and win his place back on the tour as he finished the season as the world number 91.[11] Slessor was beaten in the third round of the first event 4–1 by Oliver Brown and was docked three frames in the second round of event two after arriving late and went on to lose 4–1 against Alex Taubman.[7]

2015/2016 season

Slessor played in five of the six European Tour events and reached the main draw in all of them. His only win came against Liang Wenbo 4–0 at the Gdynia Open, before losing 4–1 to Robin Hull in the second round.[12] Slessor gained a two-year tour card starting in the 2016/2017 season after coming through qualifying from the EBSA Play-Offs at the end of the 2015/2016 season. Slessor beat Jamie Rhys Clarke 4–3 in the final round.[13]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2011/
12		 2012/
13		 2013/
14		 2014/
15		 2016/
17
Ranking[14][nb 1] UR UR UR[nb 2] 112 UR[nb 2]
Ranking tournaments
Riga Masters[nb 3] Tournament Not Held MR LQ
Indian Open Not Held 1R LQ 1R
World Open A A LQ NH LQ
Paul Hunter Classic Minor-Ranking Event 2R
Shanghai Masters A A LQ LQ LQ
European Masters Tournament Not Held LQ
English Open Tournament Not Held 2R
International Championship NH A LQ LQ LQ
Northern Ireland Open Tournament Not Held 1R
UK Championship A A 1R 1R 1R
Scottish Open NH MR Not Held
German Masters A A LQ LQ
World Grand Prix Tournament Not Held NR
Welsh Open A A 1R 1R
Gibraltar Open Tournament Not Held
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 4] DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
China Open A A LQ 2R
World Championship A A LQ LQ
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic NR A LQ LQ NH
Australian Goldfields Open A A LQ LQ NH
Performance Table Legend
LQ lost in the qualifying draw #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)		 QF lost in the quarter-finals
SF lost in the semi-finals F lost in the final W won the tournament
DNQ did not qualify for the tournament A did not participate in the tournament WD withdrew from the tournament
NH / Not Held means an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Event means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
  1. ↑ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. 1 2 New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  3. ↑ The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)
  4. ↑ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2011/2012–2012/2013)

References

  1. ↑ "World Rankings after the 2014 Australian Goldfields Open" (PDF). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Career-total Statistics for Elliot Slessor – Professional". CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Quartet Earn Tour Cards". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Quartet Earn Tour Cards". World Snooker. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Elliot Slessor 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Money List Updated after the 2014 World Championship". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  7. 1 2 "Elliot Slessor 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  8. ↑ "Xiao Guodong 4–5 Elliot Slessor". Love Snooker. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "Selt suffers blip in fine season". Nuneaton News. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  10. ↑ "Mark Selby sweeps away Elliot Slessor as competition at China Open heats up". Daily Mail. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  11. ↑ "World Rankings After 2015 World Championship". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 7 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  12. ↑ "Elliot Slessor 2015/2016". Snooker.org. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  13. ↑ "Slessor and Craigie Win EBSA Play-Offs". World Snooker. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  14. ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.

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