Patrick Einsle (born 22 April 1987 in
Füssen
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,
Bavaria
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) is a former German professional
snooker
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player.
Career
Early years
In 1998, at the age of 11, Einsle began to play snooker. He made his first century break at the age of 14.
He participated at the
2005 World Games
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in
snooker
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, but failed in the first round 1–3 to the eventual gold medallist
Gerard Greene
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Greene has enjoyed moderate success ...
. At the 2006
Fürth German Open
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Einsle won against
Fergal O'Brien
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and
Stephen Lee and lost only 2–3 in the quarter-finals to the eventual finalist
Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins (born 23 April 1979) is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championship, ...
.
2006/2007 season
Einsle turned professional in
2006–07, after receiving a Main Tour wildcard from the
WPBSA
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following the withdrawal of
Paul Hunter
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. He dropped off the tour after the same season.
Einsle had his first qualification match on the Main Tour only three days after his appeal, he lost in the qualifying round of the
Northern Ireland Trophy
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History
First contested in 1981 and named ''Northern Ireland Classic''. It was an invitational event held at Ulster Hall, Belfast, and Jimmy White beat Steve Davis in the fi ...
clearly with 0–5 against
Lee Page
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. At the
Grand Prix
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he survived the first two qualification rounds and was able to collect some points for the snooker world rankings. His third qualification match for the
Malta
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, he lost with 4:5 against
Mark Joyce
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.
In the qualifying for the
Masters he lost in the first round 1–4 against
Chris Norbury
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. He also lost in the first qualifying rounds of the
UK Championship
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, the
Welsh Open, the
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and the
World Championship
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, as he was defeated by 9–0
Judd Trump
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, 5–1 by
Lee Spick
Lee Spick (25 April 1980 – 26 January 2015) was an English professional snooker player. A former English under-15 champion, he reached the last 48 of ranking events on five occasions, including twice in the World Championship.
Career
He reac ...
, 2–5 by
Andrew Higginson
Andrew Higginson (born 13 December 1977) is an English professional snooker player from Widnes, Cheshire. He is best known for being the surprise finalist of the 2007 Welsh Open (snooker), 2007 Welsh Open.
Career
Early years
After some succ ...
and 4–10 by
Passakorn Suwannawat
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Career Early career
Suwannawat first turned professional in the 2006–07 season by winning the 2006 ACBS Asian Under-21 Snooker C ...
respectively. At the end he was ranked 94 of the snooker world ranking and thus lost his place on the Main Tour.
Amateur 2007–2010
On 1 November 2009 Einsle defeated
Itaro Santos
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Career
Since 2004, Santos has also competed for Germany, as his native Brazil was ...
, his friend and training partner, 4–2 in the final of the German Championship, held in
Bad Wildungen
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Location
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, to win the title for the first time. During the tournament he lost only two frames.
2010/2011 season
He was awarded another wildcard from the WPBSA for the
2010–11
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Main Tour.
He achieved first success in the
third event of the
Players Tour Championship
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, when he defeated
Jimmy Robertson and former
world champion
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Peter Ebdon
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, before losing in round 3. In the qualifying for the
Shanghai Masters he won his first qualifying match, but he lost in the second round to Irishman
Joe Delaney
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. After the first cut-off point of the world rankings (after
EPTC event 2) he was ranked 87 in the world. In the
sixth event of the tour he beat
Nigel Bond
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Bond competed on the main tour from 1989 to 2022, and was ranked within the world's top 16 players between 1992 and 1999, peaking at 5th for the 1996–97 ...
in the first round and was defeated by
Ali Carter
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, at this time No. 2 in the world ranking, with just 3–4.
In December, he withdrew from the Tour for the remainder of the season.
2013/2014 season
In April 2013 Einsle won one of the three final matches of the
EBSA Qualifying Tour and thus received a two-year tour ticket for the
2013–14 and
2014–15 seasons. However, he only won two matches of his fourteen in the season at the last 128 stage of PTC events, which left him ranked 118th at the end of the season. Einsle didn't enter a single event after the
Gdynia Open
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in February 2014 and eventually resigned from the main tour once again.
Return to amateur status

Since dropping off the tour Einsle plays in the
Paul Hunter Classic
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which is held in Fürth every year. In
2014
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he lost 4–3 to Marc Davis in the second qualifying round.
In
2015
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he won three matches to reach the main draw, but lost 4–1 to
Matthew Stevens
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in the first round and he was knocked out by the same opponent 4–2 in the opening round
a year later.
Century breaks
His highest break of 146 points he scored in an U21-tournament.
[ on Global-Snooker.com. Retrieved on 26 May 2013.] His highest professional break is 112.
Performance and rankings timeline
Career finals
Pro-am finals: 1
Amateur finals: 4 (3 titles)
References
External links
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1987 births
Living people
German snooker players
Sportspeople from Füssen
Competitors at the 2005 World Games