Born |
Huddersfield, England |
September 25, 1980
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Sport country |
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Professional | 2008/2009, 2010/2011 |
Highest ranking | 80 (2008/2009) |
Career winnings | £21,008 |
Highest break | 127 (2008 Masters Qualifying Event) |
Century breaks | 17 |
Best ranking finish | Last 64 (2008 UK Championship, 2009 China Open) |
Tournament wins | |
Non-ranking | 3 |
Kuldesh Johal (born 25 September 1980 in Huddersfield) is a former professional snooker player. He competed on the main tour during the 2008/2009 and 2010/2011 seasons.
Born in 1980, Johal played in Challenge Tour qualifying events in the early 2000s, without any success. He won two Pontin's International Open Series events during the 2007/2008 season, defeating James Leadbetter, Matthew Couch, Jeff Cundy, Stuart Carrington and Andrew Pagett in Event 2 and Gary Wilson, Jamie Jones, Liam Highfield, Stephen Craigie and Simon Bedford in Event 6, winning a place on the main tour for the 2008/2009 season.
Johal's first season as a professional brought runs to the last 64 at two ranking tournaments - the 2008 UK Championship, where he beat Aditya Mehta and Paul Davies, both 9–5, before losing by the same scoreline to Michael Holt, and the 2009 China Open, where he overcame Michael Georgiou and Barry Pinches but lost 3–5 to Judd Trump. He lost his first-round qualifying match in the 2009 World Championship 8–10 to Jin Long, and finished the season ranked 80th, falling off the tour.