Noppon Saengkham
Born | Samut Prakan Province, Thailand |
July 15, 1992
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Sport country | ![]() |
Professional | 2010/11, 2013– |
Highest ranking | 68 (December 2014–March 2015)[1][2][3][4] |
Current ranking | 82 (as of 2 May 2016) |
Career winnings | £55,990[5] |
Highest break | 134 (2010 PTC5) |
Century breaks | 12[5] |
Best ranking finish | Last 32 (x4) |
Noppon Saengkham (born July 15, 1992) is a professional snooker player from Thailand. He won the 2009 IBSF World Under-21 Championship, and with this he qualified for the 2010/2011 main tour. He dropped off tour after just one season, but gained a two-year tour card for the 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 seasons after winning the 2013 ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship.
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Career
Early years
In April 2009, Saengkham lost in the final of the ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship 1–5 to Zhang Anda.[6] He went one better at the 2009 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship by claiming the title with a 9–8 win over Soheil Vahedi in the final. It also secured his place on the main snooker tour for the 2010/2011 season.[7]
Professional debut
He lost his first three matches as a professional, only picking up one frame in the process before beating Luca Brecel 3–1 in qualifying for the 2010 World Open.[8] He lost to Martin Gould 0–3 in the next round and could only win one more match in the next six months.[8] The closest he came to qualifying for a ranking event came at the Welsh Open where he beat Matthew Couch 4–2 and Adrian Gunnell 4–0, but then lost 1–4 to Nigel Bond.[9] Saengkham ended his first season ranked world number 92 which relegated him from the tour.[10]
Saengkham did not play a match in a professional snooker event during the 2011/2012 season.[11] In the 2012/2013 season he came through Group G of the 2012 Six-red World Championship, but then lost 5–6 to Graeme Dott in the last 32.[12] He was awarded a wildcard for the 2013 World Open and lost 4–5 to Mark Joyce.[12] In April he won the ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship by defeating Pakistan's Mohammad Majid Ali 6–5 on the final pink. The title earned him a place back on the snooker tour for the 2013/2014 season.[13]
2013/2014 season
In qualifying for the 2013 Australian Goldfields Open, Saengkham beat Andrew Pagett 5–3 and Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon, Anthony McGill and Jamie Jones all by 5–1 scorelines to reach the main draw of a ranking event for the first time in his career. He played Stuart Bingham in the first round and lost 5–1.[14] He also won through to the last 32 stage of the UK Championship with victories over Tom Ford and Sean O'Sullivan, before being beaten 6–2 by Shaun Murphy.[15] Saengkham made it to the second round of the Welsh Open and World Open, but lost to multiple ranking event winners in Mark Allen and Mark Selby respectively.[14] Saengkham's season ended when he was edged out 10–9 by Vinnie Calabrese in the first round of World Championship qualifying.[14] He finished the season ranked world number 84.[16]
2014/2015 season
Saengkham defeated Alfie Burden 6–4 to qualify for the International Championship and beat Stephen Maguire 6–5, before losing in another deciding frame in the second round to Xiao Guodong. He was knocked out in the first round of the UK Championship 6–1 by Luca Brecel.[17] Saengkham eliminated David Grace, Mitchell Mann, Ross Muir and Kurt Maflin at the Lisbon Open to reach his first quarter-final in a ranking event, where he lost 4–2 to Maguire.[18] He was unable to build on this during the rest of the season as he lost eight of his last nine matches with his only win coming against German amateur Lukas Kleckers in the first round of World Championship qualifying.[17] Saengkham finished the year outside of the top 64 in the world rankings (he was 71st), but his good play in the European Tour events saw him placed 43rd on the Order of Merit to earn a new two-year tour card.[19][20]
Performance and rankings timeline
Tournament | 2010/ 11 |
2012/ 13 |
2013/ 14 |
2014/ 15 |
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Ranking[21][nb 1] | UR[nb 2] | UR[nb 3] | UR[nb 2] | 84 | |||||
Ranking tournaments | |||||||||
Wuxi Classic | NR | A | LQ | WD | |||||
Australian Goldfields Open | NH | A | 1R | WD | |||||
Shanghai Masters | LQ | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
International Championship | NH | A | LQ | 2R | |||||
UK Championship | LQ | A | 3R | 1R | |||||
German Masters | LQ | A | 1R | LQ | |||||
Welsh Open | LQ | A | 2R | 1R | |||||
Indian Open | Not held | 1R | LQ | ||||||
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 4] | DNQ | A | DNQ | DNQ | |||||
China Open | LQ | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
World Championship | LQ | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
Variant format tournaments | |||||||||
Six-red World Championship | 2R | 1R | QF | 2R | |||||
Shoot-Out | A | A | A | 1R | |||||
Former ranking tournaments | |||||||||
World Open | LQ | WR | 2R | NH |
Performance Table Legend | |||||
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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. |
Tournament wins
Amateur
- Thailand Student Games; 2008 (3 gold medals)
- Thailand Division 2 Ranking; 2008
- IBSF World Under-21 Championship; 2009[22]
- ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship; 2013[23]
References
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External links
- Noppon Saengkham at CueTracker.net: Snooker Results and Statistic Database
- Player profile on Global Snooker
- Player profile on Pro Snooker Blog