Issara Kachaiwong (; born October 4, 1983, in Chanthaburi, Thailand), is a Thai former professional snooker player.
Career Kachaiwong became the Thai national under-20 champion. He won the first edition of the General Cup International, defeating players like Mark Allen and Dominic Dale and also capturing a gold medal at the 2004 Thai Games, before he finally qualified for the main tour by winning the 2006 Asian championships, defeating Mohammed Shehab 6–3 in the final.
His best performance in the debut season came at the 2006 Grand Prix in October in Aberdeen. During that tournament he won 4 of his five matches during the group stages. His only loss came against John Higgins. However he failed to make the top two as both Higgins and Alan McManus, who Kachaiwong had beaten, had better differences. He was the only player who won four times in the group stages who did not make it through to the knockout stages. The rest of Kachaiwong's results was not good enough to keep him on tour, but he was handed a wild card for another season. Despite a last 64 run at the season-ending World Championship, he was again relegated.
At the 2010 ACBS Asian Snooker Championship Kachaiwong beat Mohammad Sajjad from Pakistan 7–3 in the final to become the champion and regained his tour card for the 2010–11 season. At the China Open where he reached the final qualifying round. He finished the season 87th in the world rankings and failed to retain his place on the tour.
Performance and rankings timeline Tournament 2004/05 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2012/13 2013/14RankingIt shows the ranking at the beginning of the seasonHe was an amateurNew players on the Main Tour do not have a ranking79Ranking tournamentsShanghai MastersNot HeldWDAALQAAUK ChampionshipALQLQAALQAAGerman MastersTournament Not HeldLQAAWelsh OpenALQLQAALQAAWorld OpenThe event was called the Grand Prix (2004/2005, 2006/2007-2009/2010)ARRLQAALQAAPlayers Tour Championship Grand FinalTournament Not HeldDNQDNQDNQChina OpenALQLQAALQAAWorld ChampionshipALQLQAALQAANon-ranking tournamentsSix-red World ChampionshipThe event was called the Six-red Snooker International (2008/2009) and the Six-red World Grand Prix (2009/2010)Not HeldRRQF2RQF2RGeneral CupWNot HeldANHAAThe MastersALQLQAAAAAFormer ranking tournamentsMalta CupALQNRTournament Not HeldNorthern Ireland TrophyNHLQLQATournament Not HeldFormer non-ranking tournamentsThailand MastersNHFTournament Not Held Performance Table LegendLQlost in the qualifying draw#Rlost in the early rounds of the tournament(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)QFlost in the quarter-finalsSFlost in the semi-finalsFlost in the finalWwon the tournamentDNQdid not qualify for the tournamentAdid not participate in the tournamentWDwithdrew from the tournament NH / Not Heldmeans an event was not held.NR / Non-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was no longer a ranking event.R / Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a ranking event.MR / Minor-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a minor-ranking event.PA / Pro-am Eventmeans an event is/was a pro-am event.
Career finals
Non-ranking finals: 3 (2 titles) Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final ScoreWinner 1. 2004 General Cup 6–3Winner 2. 2005 Thailand International Cup Nittiwat Kanjanasri 4–0Runner-up 1. 2006 Thailand Masters 3–5
Pro-am finals: 1 (1 title) Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final ScoreWinner 1. 2013 Southeast Asian Games (2) Win Ko Ko 4–1
Amateur finals: 6 (5 titles) Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final ScoreWinner 1. 2005 Thailand Amateur Championship Kobkit Palajin 5–3Winner 2. 2006 ACBS Asian Championship Mohammed Shehab 6–3Winner 3. 2006 Thailand Amateur Championship (2) Atthasit Mahitthi 5–4Runner-up 1. 2008 Thailand Amateur Championship James Wattana 1–5Winner 4. 2010 ACBS Asian Championship (2) Muhammad Sajjad 7–3Winner 5. 2024 World Amateur Championship - Masters Saleh Mohammad 4–3
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