Born |
28 January 1993 Bonnyrigg, Scotland |
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Sport country | Scotland |
Professional | 2012– |
Highest ranking | 85 |
Career winnings | £19,825 |
Highest break | 139 (2013 UK Championship) |
Century breaks | 6 |
Best ranking finish | Last 32 (2015 China Open) |
Michael Leslie (born 28 January 1993) is a Scottish professional snooker player.
Leslie turned professional in 2012 after winning the 2012 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships and gained a two year tour card for the 2012/13 and 2013/14 snooker seasons.
Leslie lost his first sixteen matches as a professional, picking up his first and only victory in the first round of World Open Qualifying by beating Michael Wasley 5-3, before losing 1-5 to Thepchaiya Un-Nooh. Leslie's season ended when he was beaten 4–10 by Dechawat Poomjaeng in the first round of World Championship Qualifying. He finished his first year on tour ranked world number 94.
Leslie could not win more than one match in any event during the 2013/2014 season. He did reach the second round of a ranking event for the first time in his career at the UK Championship by coming back from 4–0 down against Jack Lisowski to win 6–4, a performance he described as the best of his career so far, but he then lost 6–3 against Liang Wenbo in the next round. Leslie was beaten 10–6 by amateur player Christopher Keogan in the opening round of World Championship qualifying. He was relegated from the main tour as he ended the season ranked world number 101, well outside of the top 64 who remain. Leslie played in Q School to try and win his spot back and succeeded in the second event by defeating Eden Sharav in his final match to earn a new two-year tour card for the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons.