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Ross Vallance
Snooker player

Ross Vallance

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Ross Vallance (born 25 November 1987) is a Scottish amateur snooker player.

Career

During the 2008–09 snooker season Vallance took part in the International Open Series. He won three matches in the series, finishing 98th on the order of merit.Vallance's first big success was reaching the final of the 2009 Scottish Amateur Championship in 2009. He defeated Anthony McGill in the semi-final 6–5before losing too Mark Boyle 7–0 in the final.

Vallance would enter Q School for the first time in 2014. In event one, Vallance would defeat Mark Davies 4–0 before losing to Zhang Anda 4–2 in the Last 64. Vallance would lose out to Wang Zepeng in the Last 128 of event two.

Vallance gained entry to the qualifying rounds of the 2017 World Snooker Championship as one of 16 amateur players, who achieved success through the WPBSA qualifying criteria. He qualified as one of 8 Home Nations NGB qualifiers. Vallance would go on to play Sam Baird in the first round of qualifying losing 10–2. In May 2017, Vallance entered Q School, reaching the Last 16 of Q School 2017 – Event 1 before narrowly losing out to Sean O'Sullivan in a deciding frame. Later on that month Vallance won the 2017 Scottish Amateur Championship in 2017, defeating his compatriot Craig MacGillivray 7–6. Vallance has appeared in three further Scottish Amateur Championship finals, losing out in 2009, 2011 and 2018. After winning the 2017 Scottish Amateur Championship, Vallance was invited to take part in the 2017 Scottish Open. Vallance won a pre-qualifying match against Robert Carlisle 4–3. He would then go on to play Ashley Hugill in a first round match in which he was defeated 4–3.

Vallance appeared at the 2018 Snooker Shoot-Out winning his first round match against Alan McManus by 52-32 points before losing to Zhang Yong in round two.

Career finals

Amateur finals: 4 (1 title, 3 runners-up)

OutcomeNo.YearChampionshipOpponent in the finalScore
Runner-up1.2009Scottish Amateur Championship Mark Boyle7–0
Runner-up2.2011Scottish Amateur Championship Craig MacGillivray7–1
Winner1.2017Scottish Amateur Championship Craig MacGillivray7–6
Runner-up3.2018Scottish Amateur Championship Fraser Patrick7–4
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