1. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh is a Thai professional snooker player.
20 Facts About Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh has won one ranking event, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, and finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Open.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh dropped off the main tour after just one season.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh lost in the third qualifying round in three of the first four ranking events of the season.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh reached the final qualifying round for the UK Championship and the World Open, but lost to Michael Holt and Ryan Day respectively.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh played in nine of the ten Players Tour Championship Events during the season; his best results were three last-16 defeats in European Tour Events, and he finished 46th on the PTC Order of Merit.
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The match went into a deciding frame in which Thepchaiya Un-Nooh made a break of sixty, only for Maguire to get a chance to win but then miss the final brown, handing Thepchaiya Un-Nooh a big scalp.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh lost in a deciding frame in the first round of the UK Championship against Robin Hull, despite making breaks of 137 and 117 during the match.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh defeated defending champion Ding Junhui in the first round of the Indian Open, calling it his biggest win after the match.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh stated that he didn't feel he could win the title.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh's rise up the rankings continued as he ended the year 49th in the world.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh scored his first professional win at the 2015 Six-red World Championship in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh appeared on Channel 4 show TFI Friday a few days later to recreate the shot, and this time potted it.
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Incredibly, in the final round of World Championship qualifying, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh missed another 147 final black.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh then secured his first ranking event title at the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, beating Michael Holt with a break of 74.
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Just one week later at the World Open, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh recorded victories over Zhang Yang, Craig Steadman, Sunny Akani, David Gilbert and Kyren Wilson to reach his second ranking final.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh then entered qualifying for the World Championship with relegation from the tour a possibility.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh defeated Andrew Pagett, Jak Jones, and recorded a first ever victory over Matthew Selt to save his tour card and advance to the Crucible.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh is noted for his rapid playing style, and ability to win frames and matches quickly with explosive speed and heavy scoring, while his playing style has varyingly been described as "scary", but "frustrating" due to his over-emphasis on attacking play which can make him vulnerable in safety exchanges or scrappy frames.
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh is notably only the second player to achieve a 155 break in a witnessed frame and the first to achieve it on camera after compiling one during a practice match against Hossein Vafaei.