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Mark Selby

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Mark Selby is an English professional snooker player born on 19 June 1983 who has been ranked world number one on multiple occasions. He has won 26 ranking titles, which places him joint seventh on the all-time list of ranking tournament winners, and he is a four-time World Snooker Champion. He also won the Masters and the UK Championship three times each, giving him ten Triple Crown titles. He turned professional in 1999 at sixteen after winning the England Under-15 Championship, reached his first World Championship final in 2007 and won his first major title at the 2008 Masters. Selby also plays pool: he won the WEPF World Eightball Championship in 2006 and was runner-up at the Chinese Eight-ball World Championship in 2015, which made him a world champion in two different cue sports.

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1983 1
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    Mark Anthony Selby (born 19 June 1983) is an English professional snooker player.
  • Lead, honours
    He is a four-time World Snooker Champion, and has won the Masters and the UK Championship three times each for a total of ten Triple Crown titles
  • Lead, nationality
    is an English professional snooker player
  • Plays: Snooker, Lead, snooker
    is an English professional snooker player
  • Plays: Pool (cue sports), Lead, pool
    Selby is also an accomplished pool player.
  • Competed In: World Snooker Championship, Lead, world titles
    He is a four-time World Snooker Champion
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