Lucky Vatnani (born 23 December 1985) is an Indian former professional snooker player. He is from Hyderabad, India, but was based in Sheffield, England during his snooker career.
Career Vantani, a graduate from Sheffield Hallam University in Business Administration, lost a 5–6 loss in the final of the 2010 Indian Championship to Pankaj Advani in 2010 Indian Championship, and reached the last 16 of the IBSF World Snooker Championship in 2009. He won the gold medal in the British University Snooker Championships during the same year.
In 2011, he won a place on the World Snooker Tour for the 2011–12 season. However, he missed several events due to visa issues and would struggle and only won two matches, both in the qualifying stages of the Welsh Open and with three consecutive defeats to Adam Duffy in the first round of the World Open, China Open and World Snooker Championship ensured he was unable to reach the top 64 and therefore dropped of the tour at the end of the season.
Vantani competed as an amateur in the preliminary rounds of the 2013 World Snooker Championship, but lost 5–3 to Paul Wykes.
Vantanu entered the 2018 Q School in a bid to re-enter the professional snooker tour.
Performance and rankings timeline Tournament 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19RankingIt shows the ranking at the beginning of the season He was an amateurNew players on the Main Tour don't have a rankingRanking tournamentsWorld OpenALQAAAAUK ChampionshipALQAAAAGerman MastersALQAAAAWorld Grand PrixTournament Not HeldDNQDNQDNQWelsh OpenALQAAAAIndian OpenTournament Not HeldWRLQLQPlayers ChampionshipThe event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2012/2013)DNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQChina OpenALQAAAAWorld ChampionshipALQLQAAAFormer ranking tournamentsAustralian Goldfields OpenNHWDATournament Not HeldShanghai MastersAWDAAANR Performance Table LegendLQ lost in the qualifying draw#R lost in the early rounds of the tournament(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)QF lost in the quarter-finalsSF lost in the semi-finalsF lost in the finalW won the tournamentDNQ did not qualify for the tournamentA did not participate in the tournamentWD withdrew from the tournament NH / Not Held means an event was not held.NR / Non-Ranking Event means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
Amateur Year by Year Performances Vatnani's achievements include: 2013 APBSA Snooker event – Winner 2013 Film Nagar Snooker event – Winner 2013 Simply Snooker Academy event – Winner 2013 All India Bhimavaram Invitational Snooker event – Winner 2010 77th Indian National Snooker Championship – Runner-up 2009 BUCS Singles Snooker Championship – Gold Medalist 2008 3rd PCL-Manisha Invitation Snooker Championship – Runner-up 2008 Siri Fort Handicap Snooker Championship – Winner 2006 AP State Senior Billiards & Snooker Championship – Winner 2006 AP State Snooker (U-21) Champion 2005 AP State Snooker (U-21) Champion 2004 AP State Snooker (U-21) Champion 2003 AP State Snooker (U-21) Champion 2002 AP State Snooker (U-21) Champion 2001 AP State Snooker (U-21) Champion
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