Luca Brecel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Luca Brecel
Occupation	Snooker Player
Date Of Birth	Mar 8, 1995(1995-03-08)
Age	29
Birthplace	Dilsen-Stokkem
Country	Belgium
Birth City	Flemish Region
Horoscope	Pisces

Luca Brecel Biography

Luca Brecel is one of the most popular and richest Snooker Player who was born on March 8, 1995 in Dilsen-Stokkem, Flemish Region, Belgium. Luca Brecel, a Belgian professional snooker players was born on 8 March 1995. After qualifying for the 2012 World Championship at age 17, he won the European Under-19 title and is now the youngest player to compete at the Crucible. He lost to Martin Gould in the 2016 German Masters, his first ranking event final. He defeated Shaun Murphy in final of 2017 China Championship to become the first player from mainland Europe who won a ranking event.

Luca Brecel was the Belgian senior snooker champ on May 24, 2010, beating Bjorn Hanseveer 7-4. He also recorded the tournament’s highest break with a score of 136.

Brecel became a professional snooker player in June 2011, beating Anthony Hamilton in his first official professional match. By August 2011, he was ranked 87 on the Snooker world rankings, as second Belgian after Bjorn Haneveer, then ranked 65. In January 2012, he made his first 147 break in an amateur tournament.

Brecel received a wild card for the Main Tour of the professional 2011–12 season on 5 May 2011.

Brecel was among the eight players who took part in the Power Snooker tournament, which was held at the indigO2 on 30 October 2010. It was next to Neil Robertson, Shaun Murphy and Jimmy White, as well as the current world champion, Ding Junhui. O’Sullivan defeated Brecel in round one.

Luca Brecel Net Worth

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

He became the youngest European Under-19 Champion at age 14 in April 2009.

Brecel was named Young Belgian Sportsman-of-the-year on 19 December 2010.

In May 2009, in the Grand Final of the World Series of Snooker in Portugal, he beat Jimmy White 4–3 and former World Champion Ken Doherty 5–3 on his way to the quarter-finals, where he lost 4–5 to Graeme Dott. In August 2009, he beat Joe Perry, the then world number 12, at the Paul Hunter Classic. On 8 January 2010, Brecel defeated former world champion Stephen Hendry 4–1 at an exhibition game in Bruges, Belgium.

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Brecel played in all 12 of the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship events throughout the season, with his best finishes coming in Event 2, Event 8 and Event 9, where he reached the last 32 each time. He finished 69th on the Order of Merit.

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Luca Ranked on the list of most popular Snooker Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belgium. Luca Brecel celebrates birthday on March 8 of every year.

After failing to qualify for the Australian Goldfields Open and exiting both the Shanghai Masters and International Championship in the first round, Brecel then beat Hossein Vafaei 6–1, Anthony McGill 6–4 and Robin Hull 6–2 to reach the fourth round of the UK Championship. He subsequently lost to Matthew Selt 6–4 after being 3–1 up in the interval. After beating Zhao Xintong 5–2 and Kurt Maflin 5–3 he reached his first quarter-final of the season soon afterwards at the German Masters, where he recovered from 4–2 down to defeat Mark Joyce 5–4, closing the match with a 102 break. Brecel then won a scrappy game 6–3 in the semi-finals against Kyren Wilson to become only the second European player from outside the UK and Ireland, after Tony Drago from Malta almost 20 years ago (when he was defeated by Stephen Hendry at the same stage of the 1997 International Open), to play in a ranking event final and the first one from Belgium. He would lose it 9–5 to Martin Gould, but targeted a top 20 world ranking before the end of the season. He lost in the final of the Snooker Shoot-Out to Robin Hull. Brecel was beaten in the fourth round of the Welsh Open 4–2 by Ding Junhui and, after losing in the first round of three successive ranking events and failing to qualify for the World Championship, he finished the year at 30th in the world, still the highest he has ended a campaign.