Mitchell Mann

Mitchell Mann

Born 26 December 1991
Birmingham, England
Sport country  England
Professional 2014–
Highest ranking 89 (November 2014)[1]
Current ranking 100 (as of 6 April 2015)
Career winnings £23,738[2]
Highest break 142 (2014 International Championship)
Century breaks 8[2]
Best ranking finish Last 32 (2014 International Championship)

Mitchell Mann (born 26 December 1991) is an English professional snooker player.

Career

Junior

Mann first played snooker aged 9,[3] after being forced to quit football after a diagnosis of Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome, a rare disease which rots the hip bone in young boys.[4][5] The main highlight of his junior career was winning the Junior Pot Black in 2007, beating Jack Lisowski 76–23 in the final.[4]

Amateur

In 2007/2008, Mann at aged 15 began to play in the secondary International Open Series tour with eight places on the professional snooker tour on offer to the top eight in the end of season Order of Merit.[6] In 2008/2009, Mann was ranked 11th in the Order of Merit[7] and 46th in 2009/2010.[8]

For 2010/2011, the PIOS was dropped and replaced by the pro-am Players Tour Championship and an end-of season Q School[9] became the new pro ticket events. In the PTC events, Mann managed several wins against professional players Liang Wenbo, Michael White, Dave Harold and Shaun Murphy notable casualties.[4] He also qualified for main qualifying stages of the 2010 World Open professional ranking tournament through the Landywood Snooker Centre tournament,[10] losing 0–3 to Ben Woollaston in round 1.[11][12]

Mann was also a regular competitor in the Q School events, where several two year tour cards were on offer to semi-finalists in each event. Mann came close the third event of the 2012 Q School to winning a tour place, lost a deciding frame to Robbie Williams.[4] This performance however, enabled Mann to be a top up player for 2012 Australian Goldfields Open professional ranking event, where he reached the third round last 64 stage.[13] He also played in the 2013 event via the same method, but lost 5–1 to Stuart Carrington in first round last 128 stage.[14]

Professional

Mann won a two year card on the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons in June 2014 after winning the 2014 EBSA European Snooker Championships, beating John Whitty 7–2 in the final.[4][3][15] He missed the first two ranking tournaments of 2014/2015 season as this win came after the qualifying rounds of those events.[3] He picked up his first win on the tour by edging experienced player Peter Lines 6–5 in qualifying for the International Championship. He came through a wildcard round match 6–1 against Niu Zhuang and then made a 142 break during a 6–5 win over Wang Zepeng. In Mann's deepest run in a ranking event to date he lost 6–4 to Michael White in the last 32. He was knocked out in the first round of both the UK Championship and Welsh Open.[16] Mann saw off Alfie Burden 10–4 in World Championship qualifying and won three frames in a row, after Gerard Greene had come from 4–0 down to trail 7–6, to beat him 10–6.[17] He required one more win to reach the biggest tournament in snooker, but lost 10–6 to Alan McManus.[18]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2010/
11		 2011/
12 		2012/
13 		2013/
14		 2014/
15
Ranking[19][nb 1] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 3]
Ranking tournaments
Australian Goldfields Open A A LQ LQ A
Shanghai Masters A A A A LQ
International Championship Not Held A A 2R
UK Championship A A A A 1R
German Masters A A A A LQ
Welsh Open A A A A 1R
Indian Open Not Held A LQ
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 4] DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
China Open A A A A LQ
World Championship A A A A LQ
Former ranking tournaments
World Open LQ A A A 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 He was an amateur.
  3. ↑ New players don't have a ranking.
  4. ↑ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2012/2013)

References

  1. ↑ "World Rankings after the International Championship 2014" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 3 November 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Career-total Statistics for Mitchell Mann - Professional". CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Mitchell Mann Q&A" (URL). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Mitchell Mann". Pro Snooker Blog. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Snooker: Aston Villa fan Mitchell Mann is back on track". birminghammail.co.uk. Birmingham Mail. 21 August 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Pontins International Open Series". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "2008-09 PIOS Rankings". Global Snooker. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "2008-09 PIOS Rankings". Global Snooker. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  9. ↑ "World Snooker Q School". World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  10. ↑ "World Open Qualifiers Line-Up Complete". birminghammail.co.uk. World Snooker. 3 November 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  11. ↑ "World Open Qualifiers Drawsheet". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on 21 August 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "2010 World Open qualifying rounds results". Global Snooker. Archived from the original on 24 August 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  13. ↑ "Australian Goldfields Open Qualifiers (2012)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  14. ↑ "Australian Goldfields Open Qualifiers (2013)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  15. ↑ "European Snooker Championships Men – Sofia/Bulgaria 2014 – knockout results". European Billiards & Snooker Association. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  16. ↑ "Mitchell Mann 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  17. ↑ "Mitchell Mann holds nerve to win tense contest in snooker World Championship qualifier". Tyburn Mail. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  18. ↑ "Mitchell Mann loses to McManus in World Snooker Qualifiers". Tyburn Mail. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  19. ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.

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