Thor Chuan Leong

Thor Chuan Leong
Born 24 March 1988
Sport country  Malaysia
Professional 2014–
Highest ranking 124 (June–August 2014)[1][2]
Current ranking 125 (as of 6 April 2015)
Career winnings £625[3]
Highest break 84 (2015 World Championship Qualifying)[4]
Century breaks 0
Best ranking finish Last 128 (2015 Welsh Open, 2015 Indian Open, 2015 China Open)
Thor Chuan Leong
Medal record
Competitor for  Malaysia
Men's Snooker
Southeast Asian Games
Gold 2013 Naypyidaw 6 Red Individual
Bronze 2013 Naypyidaw Individual
Bronze 2013 Naypyidaw Doubles

Thor Chuan Leong born (24 March 1988) is a Malaysian professional snooker player. He is commonly referred to as Rory Thor.[5]

Career

Leong, based in Penang, Malaysia represented his country at the 2006 & 2010 Asian Games and in the 2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games and 2013 Southeast Asian Games, in the Southeast Asian Games he won bronze in the snooker singles[6] and doubles[7] and gold in the six red snooker singles.[8]

In 2014, Leong won the ACBS Asian Snooker Championship in May, beating Taiwan's Hung Chuang Ming 7–3 in the final.[9] This victory gained Thor a two year card on the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons.[10] However, depspite the tour starting in May, Leong did not start playing on the tour until February 2015.[11] He played in the Six-red World Championship, but lost all five of his group matches.[12] In his first match in a ranking event qualifier he was beaten 4–1 by Dechawat Poomjaeng.[13] Although Leong lost all four of his matches this season he did push top 16 player Stuart Bingham to a deciding frame in the first round of the Welsh Open.[14]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2014/
15
Ranking[15][nb 1] UR[nb 2]
Ranking tournaments
Welsh Open 1R
Indian Open LQ
China Open LQ
World Championship LQ
Variant format tournaments
Six-red World Championship RR
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. ↑ From the 2010/2011 season it shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. ↑ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.

References

  1. ↑ "World Rankings After the 2014 Wuxi Classic" (PDF). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "World Rankings After the 2014 Australian Goldfields Open" (PDF). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Career-total Statistics for Thor Chuan Leong - Professional". CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Head-to-Head: Thor Chuan Leong vs Jimmy Robertson". CueTracker - Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "Thor Chuan Leong". World Snooker. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Snooker Single" (PDF). Southeast Asian Games. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "Snooker Double" (PDF). Southeast Asian Games. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "6 Red Snooker Single" (PDF). Southeast Asian Games. 15 December 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  9. ↑ "30th Asian Snooker Championships 2014". Cue Sports India. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  10. ↑ "2014/15 List Of Tour Players". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 14 August 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  11. ↑ "November Start For Malaysia’s Thor?". Pro Snooker Blog. 27 July 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "SangSom 6 Red World Championship 2014" (PDF). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  13. ↑ "Thor Chuan Leong 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  14. ↑ "Stuart Bingham wants another 10 years at the top as he begins Welsh Open campaign". Echo. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  15. ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.

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