New Young Players on tour

kolompar wrote:This complaining about not enough British players is so annoying considering 80% of the tour is British.

TheSaviour wrote:But one thing which is learned only through experiences is that it only counts after being already down and out. To make it feel deserved. Young players just can't afford to sit and listen. Don't be a fool like the late Alex Higgins or Bill W used to be. But do it by yourself. To be Like a jojo; the more down you go, the higher you get.

mick745 wrote:Snooker.org has a list of the 123 players (so far) that will be on tour next season:

http://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?te ... eason=2017

You can click on the column headings to sort by Date Of Birth. When I did this it was striking to see that 6 of the 7 youngest players will be Chinese and you have to go all the way down to Oliver Lines to get to the first English player. In fact Xu Si's name is not on this list as his date of birth is unknown but he won the World U21s so must be fairly young also.

Obviously some young british players may get through Q School 2 but I just thought this was interesting to note.

1 Yuan Sijun 29.05.2000 (16) China
2 Yan Bingtao 16.02.2000 (17) China
3 Chris Totten 05.12.1998 (18) Scotland
4 Zhou Yuelong 24.01.1998 (19) China
5 Lü Haotian 29.11.1997 (19) China
6 Wang Yuchen 05.08.1997 (19) China
7 Zhao Xintong 03.04.1997 (20) China
8 Lukas Kleckers 18.05.1996 (21) Germany
9 Alexander Ursenbacher 26.04.1996 (21) Switzerland
10 Ross Muir 06.10.1995 (21) Scotland
11 Boonyarit Kaettikun 05.10.1995 (21) Thailand
12 Akani Songsermsawad 10.09.1995 (21) Thailand
13 Josh Boileau 02.07.1995 (21) Ireland
14 Oliver Lines 16.06.1995 (21) England

SnookerFan wrote:

kolompar wrote:This complaining about not enough British players is so annoying considering 80% of the tour is British.