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Florian Nüßle
Austrian snooker player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Florian Nüßle (born 18 December 2001) is an Austrian professional snooker player from Graz.[2] In 2017, aged 16, he became his country's youngest national snooker champion.[1] In March 2025, he won his Q Tour Playoff to gain a two-year professional tour card starting from the 2025–26 season, becoming the first professional snooker player from Austria.[3]
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National tournaments
Florian Nüßle became interested in snooker as a child and played pool with a standing aid when he was five years old. He also played football in his youth for five years for SK Sturm Graz, and golf, but ultimately opted for snooker. After obtaining his secondary school certificate he went to the UK with the aim of becoming a professional player.[4]
He first participated in the Austrian national youth championships in 2007, and won his first national title in the under–16 age group at the age of 13, defending his title in the following two years. In 2015 he won the under–21 title and defended it in the years that followed. At 16, he became the youngest player to win the national championship when he won the Austrian National Championship.[1] He also became ranked as Austrian number one that season.[1] In 2018 he played Andreas Ploner in the final, winning 5–2.[1]
International tournaments
After his first national youth title, he played in the EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships and IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship. At the 2017 event, he reached the quarter-finals of the under-21 event. He also entered the IBSF World Snooker Championship that year, reaching the semi-finals losing to eventual champion Pankaj Advani 4–7.[5] From 2017, he competed in the annual pro-am Paul Hunter Classic (PHC), an amateur tournament from the World Snooker Tour. He would defeat professional player Elliot Slessor during the 2018 event.[6]
Professional career
In March 2025, Nüßle defeated Estonian former professional Andres Petrov 10–3 in the final of Playoff 3 of the 2024–25 Q Tour to gain a professional tour card for the 2025–26 and 2026–27 snooker seasons, becoming the first professional snooker player from Austria.[3]
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Performance and rankings timeline
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| 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. | |||
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Career finals
Pro-am finals: 1 (1 title)
Amateur finals: 20 (15 titles)
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