Chris Melling

Chris Melling, whose full name is Christopher Melling, is an English professional pool and snooker player from Keighley, West Yorkshire, born on 27 January 1979. He is a former world number 1 at World Rules British Eight-Ball, won the WEPF World Eightball Championship in 2001 and 2003, and was ranked first by the World Eightball Pool Federation in 2003. He twice won the International Pool Masters, in 2001 and 2002, and the European Professional title in 2002. In 2001 he reached the last 16 of the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in Cardiff, beating Steve Davis, and in 2011 he won the China Open for $40,000, his first major nine-ball title. He was the most valuable player at the 2012 Mosconi Cup.