Elliot Slessor

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

Elliot Slessor
Paul Hunter Classic 2014
Born (1994-08-04) 4 August 1994
Gateshead
Sport country England
Professional2013–2015, 2016–
Highest ranking60 (August 2020)
Current ranking 60 (as of 17 August 2020)
Career winnings£91,570
Highest break138:
2018 European Masters (qualifying)
Century breaks31
Best ranking finishSemi-finals (2017 Northern Ireland Open)

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 grandfather bought him a table for Christmas. He joined the main snooker tour in May 2013 after he won through Qualifying 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 Rhys 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 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 Rhys 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 North Ireland Open. He beat Ronnie O'Sullivan in the third round by 4–1, before losing 2–6 by Mark Williams.

Performance and rankings timeline
Tournament 2011/
12		 2012/
13		 2013/
14		 2014/
15		 2016/
17		 2017/
18		 2018/
19		 2019/
20
Ranking[14][nb 1] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 3] 112 [nb 3] 85 [nb 4] 76
Ranking tournaments
Riga Masters[nb 5] Not Held MR LQ 1R LQ LQ
International Championship NH A LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ 2R
China Championship Tournament Not Held NR 1R LQ LQ
English Open Tournament Not Held 2R 1R 2R 3R
World Open A A LQ NH LQ 1R 1R 2R
Northern Ireland Open Tournament Not Held 1R SF 1R 1R
UK Championship A A 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R
Scottish Open NH MR Not Held 1R 4R 2R 3R
European Masters Tournament Not Held LQ LQ 2R LQ
German Masters A A LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ QF
World Grand Prix Not Held NR DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
Welsh Open A A 1R 1R 2R 1R 4R 2R
Shoot-Out Variant Format Event 1R 3R 2R 2R
Players Championship[nb 6] DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
Gibraltar Open Tournament Not Held 2R 1R 3R 3R
Tour Championship Tournament Not Held DNQ DNQ
World Championship A A LQ LQ LQ LQ LQ 1R
Non-ranking tournaments
Haining Open Not Held MR A 3R 3R 1R
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic NR A LQ LQ Tournament Not Held
Australian Goldfields Open A A LQ LQ Tournament Not Held
Shanghai Masters A A LQ LQ LQ LQ NR
Paul Hunter Classic Minor-Ranking Event 2R 1R 1R NR
Indian Open Not Held 1R LQ 1R QF 2R NH
China Open A A LQ 2R LQ 2R 1R 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 Heldmeans an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Eventmeans 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. Players qualified One Year Ranking List started the season without ranking points.
  5. The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)
  6. The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2011/2012–2012/2013)

References
  1. "Quartet Earn Tour Cards". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  2. "Quartet Earn Tour Cards". World Snooker. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  3. "Elliot Slessor 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  4. "Money List Updated after the 2014 World Championship". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  5. "Elliot Slessor 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  6. "Xiao Guodong 4–5 Elliot Slessor". Love Snooker. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  7. "Selt suffers blip in fine season". Nuneaton News. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  8. "Mark Selby sweeps away Elliot Slessor as competition at China Open heats up". Daily Mail. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  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. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  11. "Slessor and Craigie Win EBSA Play-Offs". World Snooker. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  12. "Elliot Slessor 2016/2017". Snooker.org. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  13. "Mark Williams slams 'rubbish' performance after Coral Welsh Open exit". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  14. "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
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