Michael Wild
Wild at the 2012 Paul Hunter Classic
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| Born | 27 March 1981 |
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| Sport country |
 England
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| Professional | 2003/04, 2015– |
| Highest ranking | 99 |
| Current ranking | 111 (as of 18 December 2016) |
| Career winnings | £23,207 |
| Highest break | 138 (2003 UK Champiomnship, 2008 PIOS – Event 4) |
| Century breaks | 19 |
| Best ranking finish | Last 48 (2012 Australian Goldfields Open) |
Michael Wild (born 27 March 1981) is a professional English snooker player.
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Wild competed in the Challenge Tour and International Open Series events, without much success until the 2002/2003 season, when he reached the last 16 at Challenge Tour events 1 and 2; these performances were sufficient for him to earn a place on the sport's main tour, which he took up in 2003.
Wild's first season as a professional brought little success itself, his best finish a run to the last 80 in the British Open, where he beat Kristjan Helgason and Munraj Pal, before losing to Mike Dunn. He won only £3,850 prize money during the season and, finishing it ranked 121st, fell off the tour.
Several years of attempting to qualify again for the main tour through the International Open Series followed; during the 2005/2006 season, he reached the semi-finals in Event 1 - losing 1–5 to Martin Gould - and the quarter-finals in Event 3, where Liu Song beat him 5–2. Another semi-final came in 2007, before Wild recorded his first run to the final of a tournament, in Event 4 of that year's series. There his opponents included Robert Stephen and David Grace, but in the final, he lost 3–6 to Matthew Couch.
With the advent of the Players Tour Championship in the 2010/11 season, Wild found form after another lean period, recording two last-64 finishes - in Event 2 and EPTC1, where he lost 2–4 to Dave Harold and 1–4 to Ricky Walden respectively. He entered Q-School in 2011 and reached the quarter-finals of the second event, but, leading David Morris 3–1 and requiring only one more win to return to the tour, eventually lost 3–4.
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