{"id":25,"date":"2022-03-10T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/snooker\/?p=5"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:51:38","slug":"mark-selby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/mark-selby\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Selby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mark Selby<\/strong>&nbsp;is an English professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player who is a four-time and the reigning&nbsp;World Snooker Champion. Ranked&nbsp;world number one&nbsp;on multiple occasions, he has won a total of 20 ranking titles, placing him seventh on the all-time list of&nbsp;ranking tournament winner. In addition to his four world titles, he has won the&nbsp;Master three times and the&nbsp;UK Championship&nbsp;twice for a total of nine&nbsp;Triple Crown&nbsp;titles, putting him on a par with&nbsp;John Higgins&nbsp;and behind only&nbsp;Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan&nbsp;(20),&nbsp;Stephen Hendry&nbsp;(18) and&nbsp;Steve Davis&nbsp;(15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After winning the England Under-15 Championship in 1998, Selby turned professional in 1999, aged 16. He made his Crucible debut in&nbsp;2005&nbsp;and reached his first World Championship final in&nbsp;2007, when he was runner-up to John Higgins. He won his first major title at the&nbsp;2008 Masters&nbsp;and his first ranking title at the&nbsp;2008 Welsh Open. Between&nbsp;2014&nbsp;and&nbsp;2017, he won the World Championship three times in four years. He has been&nbsp;world number one&nbsp;on multiple occasions; he first reached the top of the rankings in September 2011, and held the position for more than four years continuously between February 2015 and March 2019. He has compiled more than 700&nbsp;century breaks&nbsp;in professional competition, including three&nbsp;maximum breaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selby is also a&nbsp;poo<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pool_(cue_sports)\">l<\/a>&nbsp;player; he was the 2006&nbsp;World Eight-ball Pool Federation&nbsp;champion and runner-up at the&nbsp;Chinese Eight-ball World Championship&nbsp;in 2015, making him the only man to have been world champion in both snooker and pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Selby&nbsp;is an English professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player who is a four-time and the reigning&nbsp;World Snooker Champion. Ranked&nbsp;world number one&nbsp;on multiple occasions, he has won a total of 20 ranking titles, placing him seventh on the all-time list of&nbsp;ranking tournament winner. In addition to his four world titles, he has won the&nbsp;Master three times and the&nbsp;UK Championship&nbsp;twice for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rankings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}