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Chris Wakelin
Born (1992-03-06) 6 March 1992 (age 32)
Rugby, England
Sport country England
Professional2013–
Highest ranking72 (September–November and November 2014–present)[1][2][3][4][5]
Current ranking 15 (as of 16 December 2024)
Century breaks115 (as of 15 December 2024)
Best ranking finishLast 32 (2014 Wuxi Classic)

Chris Wakelin (born 6 March 1992) is an English professional snooker player from Rugby, Warwickshire. He practices frequently with Kyren Wilson, David Gilbert and Mark Selby at the Atack Club in Nuneaton.[7]

Career

Early career

Wakelin started playing snooker aged 8, when his parents Mark and Angie bought him his first mini snooker table, and by the time he was 11 he was successfully playing in the local league.[8] However his career nearly came to a halt at the age of 17 when he had to start working full-time as ASDA delivery driver to support himself financially, and only played snooker as a hobby. In 2012 Wakelin decided to give the game another go but soon had to face more difficulties as family issues resulted in a severe depression: "I could line up but I just couldn’t pot. I thought I would never play again. But thankfully with the help of my friends I managed to turn it around."[9] Since then Wakelin reached the semi-finals of the 2013 English Amateur Championship, before making it through to the England's Under 21 final (he would win the final 8–4 against Hammad Miah in June).[8][10]

These results encouraged him to enter Q School in May. After having made it to the final round of the first event, he again reached the final round at the Event 3. There he faced former professional Adam Wicheard, who led 2–0 before Wakelin hit back to lead 3–2. Then, in the sixth frame when Wakelin was already 23–0 up, Wicheard accidentally snapped his cue when leaning on it, and had to concede the match.[10] As a result, Wakelin won a tour card for the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons.

2013/2014

Wakelin had a tough debut season as a professional as he lost his opening match in all the ranking tournaments aside from the UK Championship, where he defeated 22nd seed Ryan Day 6–5 before losing by the same scoreline to Jamie Burnett in the subsequent round.[11] He had better results in the minor-ranking European Tour events, reaching the last 32 of the Rotterdam Open before going all the way to the quarter-finals of the Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup, where he lost 4–2 to Judd Trump.[11] Wakelin's season ended when he was edged out 10–9 by Paul Davison in the first round of World Championship qualifying, with him ranked world number 106 after his first year on tour.[12][13]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2012/
13 		2013/
14 		2014/
15
Ranking[14][nb 1] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 3] 106
Ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic A LQ 2R
Australian Goldfields Open A LQ LQ
Shanghai Masters A LQ LQ
International Championship A LQ LQ
UK Championship A 2R 1R
German Masters A LQ
Welsh Open A 1R
Indian Open NH LQ
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 4] DNQ DNQ
China Open A LQ
World Championship A LQ
Former ranking tournaments
World Open 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. ^ 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 (2012/2013)

Tournament wins

Amateur

  • English Under-21 Open – 2013

References

  1. ^ "World Rankings after the Shanghai Masters 2014" (PDF). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  2. ^ "World Rankings after the Bulgarian Open 2014 (ET3)" (PDF). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  3. ^ "World Rankings after the Haining Open 2014 (AT2)" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 28 October 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  4. ^ "World Rankings after the Ruhr Open 2014 (ET4)" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 24 November 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  5. ^ "World Rankings after the Coral UK Championship 2014" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  6. ^ "Chris Wakelin". CueTracker - Snooker Database. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  7. ^ "Chris Wakelin Q&A". World Snooker. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  8. ^ a b "Chris has staked it all on a pot of gold". Rugby Advertiser. 28 April 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. ^ Evans, Gregg (16 June 2013). "Chris takes his cue from bizarre accident". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 31 July 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. ^ a b Arrowsmith, Jamie (19 June 2013). "Wakelin set to star on the baize". Rugby Observer. Retrieved 31 July 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. ^ a b "Chris Wakelin 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  12. ^ "Steadman Sets Up Davis Meeting". World Snooker. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  13. ^ "World Snooker Rankings After the 2014 World Championship" (PDF). World Snooker. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  14. ^ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.

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