Elliot Slessor
Paul Hunter Classic 2014
Born (1994-08-04) 4 August 1994 (age 29)
Gateshead
Sport country England
Professional2013–2015, 2016–present
Highest ranking39 (October 2021)
Current ranking 52 (as of 22 January 2024)
Best ranking finishSemi-final (x2)

Elliot Slessor (born 4 August 1994) is an English professional snooker player.

In May 2013, Slessor qualified for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the first Q School event.[1]

Career

Slessor began playing snooker at the age of eight after his aunt bought him a table for Christmas. He joined the main snooker tour in May 2013 after he won through the 2013 Q School courtesy of a 4–0 victory over Chris Wakelin.[2]

2013/2014 season

Slessor's first wins as a professional were at the qualifying rounds of the 2013 Australian Goldfields Open 5–4 against Jamie Clarke and 5–2 against Cao Yupeng, before losing 5–2 to Simon Bedford.[3] His debut at the main stage of a ranking event came at the Indian Open by seeing off Kurt Maflin 4–2. In New Delhi he lost 4–2 to Mark Davis. Slessor also suffered first round exits at the UK Championship and Welsh Open 6–2 to Liang Wenbo and 4–1 to Stephen Maguire respectively.[3] He finished his first season on tour ranked world number 112.[4]

2014/2015 season

Slessor automatically played in the opening rounds of the UK Championship and Welsh Open, where he was knocked out 6–4 by David Gilbert and 4–3 by Jamie Cope.[5] He qualified for the China Open by coming back from 3–1 down against Xiao Guodong to win 5–4.[6] He then raced into a 3–0 lead over Matthew Selt and held on to beat him 5–3 and play in the last 32 of a ranking event for the first time in his career.[7] Slessor faced reigning world champion Mark Selby and was thrashed 5–0.[8] He played in Q School to try and win his place back on the tour as he finished the season as the world number 91.[9] Slessor was beaten in the third round of the first event of the 2015 Q School 4–1 by Oliver Brown and was docked three frames in the second round of event two after arriving late and went on to lose 4–1 against Alex Taubman.[5]

2015/2016 season

Slessor played in five of the six European Tour events and reached the main draw in all of them. His only win came against Liang Wenbo 4–0 at the Gdynia Open, before losing 4–1 to Robin Hull in the second round.[10] Slessor gained a two-year tour card starting in the 2016–17 season after coming through qualifying from the EBSA Play-Offs at the end of the 2015–16 season. Slessor beat Jamie Clarke 4–3 in the final round.[11]

2016/2017 season

Slessor got to the second round of four ranking events in the 2016–17 season, but lost all of them.[12] This did include a 4–3 victory over home favourite Mark Williams in the opening round of the Welsh Open, where Slessor made a break of 90 in the final frame.[13]

2017/2018 season

In Indian Open, Slessor got to the quarter-final, by beating Alan McManus 4–3, Joe Perry 4–3, by leading 3–0, Shaun Murphy 4–1, before losing Mark King 2–4. Slessor got his best ranking finish in his career in the Northern Ireland Open. He beat Ronnie O'Sullivan in the third round by 4–1, before losing 2–6 by Mark Williams.

In the 2019 Welsh Open, Slessor faced Zhang Anda in the last 32. Leading 2-1, Slessor required 7 snookers to win the frame. He got the 7 snookers he required, but missed the pink. He lost that frame, but went on to win the match 4-2. He lost 4-2 to Kurt Maflin in the last 16.

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2011/
12 		2012/
13 		2013/
14 		2014/
15 		2015/
16 		2016/
17 		2017/
18 		2018/
19 		2019/
20 		2020/
21 		2021/
22 		2022/
23 		2023/
24
Ranking[14][nb 1] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 3] 112 [nb 2] [nb 3] 85 [nb 4] 76 60 50 60 47
Ranking tournaments
Championship League Non-Ranking Event RR RR 2R RR
European Masters Tournament Not Held LQ LQ 2R LQ WD LQ LQ 1R
British Open Tournament Not Held SF 1R LQ
English Open Tournament Not Held 2R 1R 2R 3R 1R LQ 2R 2R
Wuhan Open Tournament Not Held 1R
Northern Ireland Open Tournament Not Held 1R SF 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R LQ
International Championship NH A LQ LQ A LQ LQ LQ 2R Not Held 1R
UK Championship A A 1R 1R A 1R 1R 1R 1R 3R 1R LQ 1R
Shoot Out Non-Ranking Event 1R 3R 2R 2R 3R 2R 2R QF
Scottish Open NH MR Not Held 1R 4R 2R 3R 1R LQ LQ LQ
World Grand Prix Not Held NR DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
German Masters A A LQ LQ A LQ LQ LQ QF LQ LQ 2R 2R
Welsh Open A A 1R 1R A 2R 1R 4R 2R 2R 2R 1R
Players Championship[nb 5] DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
World Open A A LQ Not Held LQ 1R 1R 2R Not Held
Tour Championship Tournament Not Held DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
World Championship A A LQ LQ A LQ LQ LQ 1R LQ LQ 1R
Non-ranking tournaments
Championship League A A A A A A A A RR A A A
Six-red World Championship NH A A A A A A A A Not Held LQ
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic NR A LQ LQ Tournament Not Held
Australian Goldfields Open A A LQ LQ A Tournament Not Held
Shanghai Masters A A LQ LQ A LQ LQ Non-Ranking Not Held NR
Paul Hunter Classic Minor-Ranking Event 2R 1R 1R NR Tournament Not Held
Indian Open Not Held 1R LQ NH 1R QF 2R Tournament Not Held
China Open A A LQ 2R A LQ 2R 1R Tournament Not Held
Riga Masters[nb 6] Not Held MR LQ 1R LQ LQ Tournament Not Held
China Championship Tournament Not Held NR 1R LQ LQ Tournament Not Held
WST Pro Series Tournament Not Held RR Not Held
Turkish Masters Tournament Not Held 2R Not Held
Gibraltar Open Tournament Not Held MR 2R 1R 3R 3R 2R 1R Not Held
WST Classic Tournament Not Held 2R NH
Former non-ranking tournaments
Haining Open Not Held MR A 3R 3R 1R NH A Not Held
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. ^ a b c He was an amateur
  3. ^ a b New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking
  4. ^ Players qualified One Year Ranking List started the season without ranking points
  5. ^ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Final (2011/2012–2015/2016)
  6. ^ The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)

References

  1. ^ "Quartet Earn Tour Cards". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on 10 June 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Quartet Earn Tour Cards". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 10 June 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Elliot Slessor 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 30 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  4. ^ "Money List Updated after the 2014 World Championship". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 8 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  5. ^ a b "Elliot Slessor 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  6. ^ "Xiao Guodong 4–5 Elliot Slessor". Love Snooker. Retrieved 10 April 2015.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Selt suffers blip in fine season". Nuneaton News. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  8. ^ "Selby reaches China Open snooker quarters". The Statesman (India). Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  9. ^ "World Rankings After 2015 World Championship". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 7 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  10. ^ "Elliot Slessor 2015/2016". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  11. ^ "Slessor and Craigie Win EBSA Play-Offs". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  12. ^ "Elliot Slessor 2016/2017". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 13 April 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  13. ^ "Mark Williams slams 'rubbish' performance after Coral Welsh Open exit". South Wales Argus. Archived from the original on 11 April 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  14. ^ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2011.

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