Mitchell Mann has gained again his place on the World Snooker Tour – 12 months on from giving up the sport once more.
After dropping his tour card final 12 months, then failing at qualifying faculty, the 32-year-old Midlander was so fed up with snooker that he packed within the sport for a second time.
However he opted to return to have one other crack at this 12 months’s Q-College in Leicester – and this time he succeeded.
Birmingham’s Mann fired match-winning breaks of 65, 76 and 51 to assist safe an emotional 4-2 final-round victory over Manchester’s Josh Thomond.
Together with Lancashire’s Farakh Ajaib, Scotland’s Chris Totten and 20-year-old Pole Antoni Kowalski, it earns Mann a spot again on the skilled tour for the subsequent two years.
“It’s completely wonderful,” stated Mann. “If I rewind the clock to 12 months in the past, I might give up the sport and bought a job. I fell out of affection with it [snooker] and did not wish to play.
“Getting a job modified my thoughts. I realised how good you’ve gotten it taking part in on tour. It has all labored out properly.”
Mann, who has a highest world rating of 70, is an skilled campaigner, having competed within the World Championship at The Crucible in 2016.
He reached a rating occasion semi-final when he made the final 4 on the 2017 Paul Hunter Traditional, through which he misplaced to eventual winner Michael White.
However he has confronted his demons away from the snooker desk – and this isn’t the primary time he has come again to the sport after quitting.