Yasin Merchant

Yasin Merchant

Born	(1966-12-17) December 17, 1966 (age 58) Mumbai, India
Sport country	India
Professional	1992–1997
Highest ranking	65 (1996/1997)
Best ranking finish	Last 32 (x2)

Yasin Merchant

Medal record
Men's Snooker
Asian Games
	2002 Busan	Doubles
	2010 Guangzhou	Team
	2006 Doha	Team
Asian Indoor Games
	2007 Macau	Team

Yasin Merchant (born 17 December 1966) is India's second professional snooker player. The late Omprakesh Agrawal was the first.

Merchant won the National Snooker championships on 3 occasions, in 2001, 2000 and 1991. [1] He was honoured by Khar Gymkhana which has named its snooker hall after him as Yasin Merchant Snooker Hall.^[1]

Career

In 2011 he retired from the sport.^[2][3][4]

Tournament finals

• 2010 Silver medalist Asian Games China
• 2006 Bronze medalist - Indoor Asian games, Macau
• 2007 ACBS Asian Snooker Championship runner-up
• 2002 Asian Games – Snooker Doubles Gold Medal
• 2001 ACBS Asian Champion, Indian Snooker Champion [2]
• 2000 Indian Snooker Champion [3]
• 1991 ACBS Asian Championship runner-up, Indian Snooker Champion
• 1989 ACBS Asian Championship Champion
• 1991 Arjuna Award
• 1991 Shiv Chattrapati Award
• WPBSA World Snooker Coach Grade 2

References

1. "Former Asian Snooker Champion Yasin Merchant honoured". The Indian Express. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
2. "Snooker ace Yasin Merchant calls it a day". ndtv.com. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
3. "Merchant loses to O'Donnel in World Snooker Championship". ndtv.com. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
4. "Snooker ace Yasin Merchant calls it a day". news18.com. Retrieved 26 April 2016.