Rhys Clark (snooker player)

Not to be confused with Jamie Rhys Clarke or Rhys Clark.
Rhys Clark
Born (1994-08-17) 17 August 1994
Stonehouse, Scotland
Sport country  Scotland
Professional 2015–
Highest ranking 73 (October 2016)
Current ranking 73 (as of 31 October 2016)
Career winnings £29,350[1]
Highest break 134 (2014 Q School – Event 1)[1]
Century breaks 10[1]
Best ranking finish Last 16 (2016 English Open)

Rhys Clark (born 17 August 1994) is a Scottish professional snooker player.

Career

Amateur

From the village of Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire in Scotland, Clark started playing snooker from aged 11.[2] As an amateur he featured in various professional tournaments with his best results coming in the 2014 World Snooker Championship first round qualifier where he beat Mike Dunn 10–2 and the 2015 Indian Open wildcard round where he beat former professional Pankaj Advani 4–3.[2]

Professional

In the first event of Q School, Clark reached the final round and made breaks of 63 and 59 against Leo Fernandez and won 4–1, a win which gave Clark a two-year card to the World Snooker Tour for the 2015/2016 season and 2016/2017 seasons.[2][3] He won his first match by beating Grant Miles 5–1 in the 2015 Australian Goldfields Open qualifiers, before losing by a reverse of this scoreline to Li Hang. At the UK Championship he was knocked out in the first round 6–1 by Mark Davis.[4] A 5–0 whitewash over Ken Doherty with a high break of 104 saw Clark qualify for the China Open.[5] In Clark's first appearance at a Chinese ranking event he won a match at a venue for the first time by beating Davis 5–4.[6] In the next round Clark made breaks over 50 in each of the four frames he won, but was edged out 5–4 by Alfie Burden.[7] His first season as a professional ended with an opening round 10–5 defeat to David Gilbert in World Championship qualifying.[4]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2012/
13 		2013/
14		 2014/
15		 2015/
16		 2016/
17
Ranking[8][nb 1] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 3] 95
Ranking tournaments
Riga Masters[nb 4] Tournament Not Held Minor-Ranking LQ
Indian Open NH LQ 1R NH LQ
Paul Hunter Classic Minor-Ranking Event 2R
Shanghai Masters A LQ A LQ LQ
European Masters Tournament Not Held 2R
English Open Tournament Not Held 4R
International Championship LQ A A LQ LQ
Northern Ireland Open Tournament Not Held 1R
UK Championship A 1R A 1R 2R
Scottish Open MR Tournament Not Held
Welsh Open A 1R A 1R
Gibraltar Open Tournament Not Held MR
World Grand Prix Tournament Not Held NR DNQ
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 5] DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
China Open A A LQ 2R
World Championship A LQ LQ LQ
Former ranking tournaments
Australian Goldfields Open A A A 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 3 He was an amateur.
  3. ↑ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  4. ↑ The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)
  5. ↑ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2011/2012–2012/2013)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Career-total Statistics for Rhys Clark - Professional". CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Rhys Clark". Pro Snooker Blog. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Quartet Earn Tour Cards". World Snooker. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Rhys Clark 2015/2016". Snooker.org. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "China Wins for Trump and Higgins". Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "Scots snooker starlet Rhys Clark finally ends first-round bogey by defeating Mark Davis at China Open". Evening Times. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "Alfie Burden edges out Rhys Clark in thriller as John Higgins and Ricky Walden progress at the China Open". Live Snooker. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.

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