Anthony McGill (snooker player)

Anthony McGill

Anthony McGill at the 2015 German Masters
Born	(1991-02-05) 5 February 1991 (age 26) Glasgow, Scotland
Sport country	Scotland
Nickname	Licensed To Thrill
Professional	2010–
Highest ranking	16 (March 2017)
Current ranking	18 (as of 18 December 2016)
Career winnings	£433,495
Highest break	144 (2014 World Open)
Century breaks	113
Tournament wins
Ranking	2

Anthony McGill (born 5 February 1991) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He is a practice partner of Alan McManus.

McGill turned professional in 2010, after finishing fourth in the 2009/2010 PIOS rankings. McGill won the 2016 Indian Open after having never been beyond the quarter-final stage of a ranking event previously.

He was runner-up to Stuart Carrington in the 2006 Junior Pot Black.

He was runner-up in the 2008 European Under-19′s Championship behind Stephen Craigie.

In the 2009/2010 season he won the fifth event of the International Open Series and finished fourth in the rankings. Thus, McGill received a place on the professional Main Tour for 2010/2011. He reached his first professional final losing 1–6 to John Higgins in the 2011 Scottish Professional Championship.

McGill did not manage to qualify for the main stage of any ranking event tournaments during the season, reaching the final qualifying on one occasion in an attempt to reach the German Masters. He reached the semi-finals of Event 3 in the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship series, which included wins over experienced campaigners Matthew Stevens and Stephen Lee, before losing 0–4 to Ben Woollaston. McGill's season concluded with an 8–10 defeat to Anthony Hamilton in the penultimate qualifying round for the World Championship, finishing the season ranked world number 50.