Adam Wicheard aims for a better season after grabbing tour card in Q School event 1 – Snooker news
Trowbridge potter, Adam Wicheard, is confident to make a better run in the upcoming snooker season, after he grabbed the tour card in the Qualifying School (Q School) Event one, held at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield on Monday, May 16.
The 25-year-old Englishman entered the semi-final stage of the Qualifying School at the academy, as he became one of the first four players to have registered for the professional tour through the qualifying series devised by snooker boss, Barry Hearn.
The former English Number One, Wicheard, turned professional last year and is now practicing at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester and also in the back room of Pet Planet. He grabbed the professional ticket last year too, but was dropped-off the
pro tour after a struggling run in the season.
Wicheard said, “I’ll do a lot better this year,” “I didn’t play well at all last season and that was disappointing but I’ve got an extra year’s proper experience now and I’m hoping that should stand me in good stead.”
The Somerset-based, Wicheard, defeated the Scotsman, Fraser Patrick, by the score line of 4-1, in the qualifying round of Q School Event 1. He put in some extraordinary breaks of 52, 54 and 79, to clinch the match with a three-frame lead.
In the previous three rounds of the event, he edged past Chinese, Tian Pengfei 4-2, John Astley 4-2 and Michael Leslie 4-1, to surge into the quarter-finals. He admits that luck plays an important role in the Q School.
He said, “There are a lot of players there but there’s probably 20 or 25 that could comfortably play on the main tour. So it’s really down to the luck of the draw, because you can get those players drawn against each other in the first round. I also think
that the players that got all the way to the quarter-finals and then lost in the first tournament will find it hard to win through the second and third ones.”
Wicheard now has a vital chance to prove himself worthy of the professional tour, as he gets ready to make his appearance at the first Players Tour Championship (PTC) event of the season on June 20, in Sheffield.
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