Lucky Vatnani (born 23 December 1985) is an Indian former professional snooker player. He is from Hyderabad, India, but was based in Sheffield, England during his snooker career. Career Vantani, a graduate from Sheffield Hallam University in Business Administration, showed promise in his amateur career, with a 6–5 loss to Pankaj Advani in 2010 Indian Championship, as well as a run to the last 16 of the IBSF World Snooker Championship in 2009 and winning the gold medal in the British University Snooker Championships during the same year. In 2011, he won a place on the World Snooker Tour for the 2011–12 season. However, he missed several events due to visa issues and would struggle and only won two matches, both in the qualifying stages of the Welsh Open and with three consecutive defeats to Adam Duffy in the first round of the World Open, China Open and World Snooker Championship ensured he was unable to reach the top 64 and therefore dropped of the tour at the end of the season. Vantani competed as an amateur in the preliminary rounds of the 2013 World Snooker Championship, but lost 5–3 to Paul Wykes. He also attempted the regain his place on the tour via the Q School in 2012, 2013 and 2014, but was unsuccessful on each occasion. In May 2018 he entered Q School in a bid to re-enter the professional snooker tour. Performance and rankings timeline Amateur Year by Year Performances 2015 Semi Finalist – Snooker Crown – All India open tournament – Delhi 2015 Quarter Finalist All India Invitational Snooker event – Chennai 2014 Top 16 World Snooker Championship – Bangalore 2013 APBSA Snooker event – Winner 2013 Indian Open pre-qualifying – Delhi – Qualifier 2013 Film Nagar Snooker event – Winner 2013 Simply Snooker Academy event – Winner 2013 All India Bhimavaram Invitational Snooker event – Winner 2012 79th Indian National Snooker Championship – Rank 6 2011 CCI Invitational Snooker Tournament – Quarter Finalist 2011 Shyam Shroff Memorial – Khar Gymkhana Invitational Snooker Tournament – Quarter Finalist 2010 77th Indian National Snooker Championship – Runner-up 2009 IBSF World Snooker (Men) Championship – Top 16 2009 76th Indian National Snooker Championship – Top 16 2009 BUCS Singles Snooker Championship – Gold Medalist 2009 CCI Platinum Jubilee Snooker Championship – Top 16 2008 75th Indian National Snooker Championship – Top 16 2008 3rd PCL-Manisha Invitation Snooker Championship –