Ben Woollaston

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ben Woollaston
Occupation	Snooker Player
Date Of Birth	May 14, 1987(1987-05-14)
Age	37
Birthplace	Leicester
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Ben Woollaston Biography

Ben Woollaston is one of the most popular and richest Snooker Player who was born on May 14, 1987 in Leicester, England, United Kingdom. Ben Woollaston (born 14 May 1987) is an English professional snooker player who hails from Leicester. The only professional award he has won was won at the minor-ranking 3rd Players Tour Championship event in the year 2011. Woollaston’s only full-time ranking event final came during the event in 2015, called Welsh Open, where he fell to John Higgins.

Woollaston did not qualify for nine of the 11 ranking events during 2013-13’s season. He did much better in those minor rankings PTC events, where the quarter-finalist was defeated at four out of the 10 tournaments , but managed to be ranked in 10th place in the Order of Merit. He was able to qualify for the finals, where He defeated Mark Williams and Joe Perry both 4-3 to make it to his first qualifying event for ranking quarterfinals. He took on Kurt Maflin and was this time at the wrong end of a score of 4-3. Woollaston maintained his winning streak throughout his participation in the World Championship Qualifiers by beating Thailand’s Thepchaiya Un-Nooh by 10-3 in the third round, before facing Ryan Day, just one game away from making the main draw to the very first time. The match was not more than just a single frame between players in the final moments of the game, with Woollaston making a crucial breaking 64 frame in the final frame to win the match 10-9. He said he would like to draw the the reigning champion Ronnie O’Sullivan in the first round because he believed there was absolutely nothing. The draw was the runner-up from last year’s tournament Ali Carter and from leading 3-1 and 4-3, Woollaston dropped seven frames in succession to lose the tournament, noting that he struggled to keep his focus and focus during the game. He rose 10 places in the rankings throughout the year to reach world number 33. This is the highest ranking he has reached up to now.

Woollaston lost 4–1 in the semi-finals of the Riga Open to Tom Ford and reached the quarter-finals of the Haining Open, but was beaten 4–2 by Robert Milkins. Two deciding frame victories over Robbie Williams and Yu Delu saw him reach the third round of the International Championship. After recovering from 5–2 down to Joe Perry, he almost won 6–5 for the third time in the week but this time lost the decider. Woollaston was beaten 6–2 in third round of the UK Championship by Shaun Murphy. He reached the quarter-finals of the Welsh Open for the second year in a row, but was defeated 5–1 by Joe Perry. Another came at the PTC Finals with wins over Jimmy Robertson and Matthew Selt and, though he had multiple chances to win the last frame, he lost 4–3 to Murphy. Woollaston lost 10–9 to Chris Wakelin in the first round of World Championship qualifying. He recorded a new career-high end of season world ranking of 27.

At the Welsh Open, Woollaston eliminated Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon, Mark Davis, Mark Allen and Ali Carter. He then won four consecutive frames in beating Gary Wilson 5–2 to face home favourite Mark Williams in the semi- finals. Woollaston led 5–3 and missed multiple chances to wrap up the match in the next two frames allowing Williams to send it into a decider. He made a match winning 60 break to play John Higgins, Woollaston’s favourite player growing up, in his first ranking event final. Higgins fluked a green that helped him edge the first session 5–3 which seemed to sway the whole match as he took all four frames played upon the resumption of play to win 9–3. Afterwards, Woollaston stated that he had never felt he belonged with the top players in the televised stages of ranking events until this week. Woollaston came back from 67–0 down in the deciding frame of his first round Indian Open match to beat Yu Delu on a respotted black and then lost 4–1 to Kyren Wilson in the second round. His best season to date ended with a 10–6 loss to Robin Hull in World Championship qualifying. Woollaston’s ranking of 32 in the world after the event was at that point the highest he had ever finished a season.

Woollaston was married to Tatiana Torchilo, a Belarusian referee of snooker, at Pinsk in June 2011 , following an unending romance of ten months. On the 8th of November, 2012 Ben and Tatiana celebrated the birth of their first child named Edward. Henry, their second baby, was born on the 21st of October,

2017. Henry is born October 21, 2017.

Ben Woollaston Net Worth

Ben Woollaston is one of the richest Snooker Player from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ben Woollaston 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Woollaston made his debut in the professional world playing on the Challenge Tour in 2003, at the time , the professional tour was at the second level. He made his debut on the Main Tour for the 2004-05 season, but was not able to keep his spot for the season following. He was able to regain his spot in 2006-07 when he won the European Under-19 Championship. He was given an exemption for the 2007-08 European Tour. Woollaston has twice made it to the group stage finals in the Grand Prix in 2006 and 2007. He had a marginally better event in 2006, winning two matches as opposed to zero in 2007. Woollaston also made it to the closing stage of 2007’s Welsh Open beating David Gray to advance to the second round, where he was defeated 2-5 by seven times World Champion Stephen Hendry.

Woollaston’s first professional win was the Event 3 in the Players Tour Championship in the 2011-12 season. He beat the former World Champion Graeme Dott 4-2 in the final. His performance in the other PTC’s, including a quarterfinal race in Event 8 He was able to claim an eighth place finish in the Order of Merit and therefore be eligible to compete in the finals of 2012. This marked the first occasion that he made it to the final rounds of a ranking event since the year 2007. He faced Ding Junhui, who was in the first round and fell 4-2. Woollaston was also able to participate in China Open 2011 China Open by winning three qualifying matches. He won the victory of 5-4 in the final against Ryan Day. Woollaston played Ding once more in the first round of the competition and appeared to be on the verge of an unexpected result, when he was leading to 4-0 at the break in the best-of-9-nine frame match. But, Ding found his form and took 5 frames to win the match 5-4. The season ended by losing 3-10 in the final qualifying round to Dominic Dale in the final qualifying round of the World Championship and he finished at 43rd place in the world rankings which means he’d risen 26 spots since the beginning of the season, which is the highest among players playing on tour.

At the World Open, Woollaston recorded 5–2 and 5–1 wins over Gary Wilson and Ding Junhui and made a 135 to level his third round tie with Joe Perry at 4–4, but lost the deciding frame. He got to the fourth round of the English Open by beating Cao Yupeng 4–1, Zhang Anda 4–3 and Ali Carter 4–2 and was defeated 4–3 by Liang Wenbo. Woollaston overcame Elliot Slessor 6–5 and Paul Davison 6–4 at the UK Championship, before losing 6–2 to John Higgins. He recorded his first win over Neil Robertson by edging him out 5–4 in the first round of the German Masters and was then knocked out 5–2 by Barry Hawkins. Woollaston also played in the second round of the China Open, but lost 5–4 to Hossein Vafaei. His final round qualifier match for the World Championship with Zhou Yuelong went to a deciding frame which Woollaston lost.

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Ben Ranked on the list of most popular Snooker Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ben Woollaston celebrates birthday on May 14 of every year.