Rhys Clark (snooker player)

Rhys Clark

Born	17 August 1994 Stonehouse, Scotland
Sport country	Scotland
Professional	2015–
Highest ranking	106
Current ranking	95 (as of 2 May 2016)
Career winnings	£3,000[1]
Highest break	134 (2014 Q School – Event 1)[1]
Century breaks	4[1]
Best ranking finish	Last 32 (2016 China 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.^[3][2] 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
Ranking[8][nb 1]	UR[nb 2]	UR[nb 2]	UR[nb 2]	UR[nb 3]
Ranking tournaments
Australian Goldfields Open	A	A	A	LQ
Shanghai Masters	A	LQ	A	LQ
International Championship	LQ	A	A	LQ
UK Championship	A	1R	A	1R
German Masters	A	A	A	LQ
Welsh Open	A	1R	A	1R
World Grand Prix	A	LQ	NR	DNQ
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 4]	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
China Open	A	A	LQ	2R
World Championship	A	LQ	LQ	LQ
Former ranking tournaments
Indian Open	NH	LQ	1R	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. He was an amateur.
3. New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
4. The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2011/2012–2012/2013)

References

1. "Career-total Statistics for Rhys Clark - Professional". CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
2. "Rhys Clark". Pro Snooker Blog. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
3. "Quartet Earn Tour Cards". World Snooker. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
4. "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.

External links

• Rhys Clark at CueTracker.net: Snooker Results and Statistic Database
• Profile on Pro Snooker Blog