COALISLAND’S Fergal Quinn will play professional snooker for the next two years after qualifying for World Snooker’s Main Tour via Q Schools in Leicester.
The 25-year-old won five matches, dropping only four frames in the process, in the second of two events to claim one of eight places on offer for the 2025-26 season, which starts on June 30.
He saw off Ronnie Sullivan (4-0), Sean O’Sullivan (4-1), Keith Keldie (4-1) and Ashley Carty (4-1) to set up an all-or-nothing encounter with Scotland’s Dean Young on Sunday morning.
Quinn, who reached the semi-finals of the World Amateur Championships earlier this year, opened with a break of 62 before winning the second on the black.
Young got on the board in frame three, but Quinn stayed in control to win the next two frames, potting a brilliant brown under pressure to get over the line in frame five.
Quinn will join six other Irish players on the tour for the season ahead – Mark Allen, Jordan Brown, Aaron Hill, Ken Doherty, Robbie McGuigan and Leonne Crowley.
