Bristow in 2007 and taking on Raymond van Barneveld in 2009. Selby was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to snooker and charity. Performance and rankings timeline Below is a list of competition results for professional seasons starting from 1999. Career finals Below is a list of professional finals played by Selby. Ranking finals: 31 (21 titles) Minor-ranking finals: 10 (7 titles) Non-ranking finals: 17 (9 titles) Pro-am finals: 1 Team finals: 1 Amateur finals: 1 (1 title) Pool career As well as being a professional snooker player, Selby is also adept at playing pool, specifically blackball (also known as English eight-ball) and Chinese eight-ball. In June 2006, he won the WEPF World Eight-ball championship at the Norbreck Castle Hotel in Blackpool, beating Chris Melling 10–5 in the semi-finals and Darren Appleton 11–7 in the final. In February 2015, Selby was runner-up at the inaugural Chinese Eight-ball World Championship in Yushan, China. Having defeated Liu Haitao 15–13 in the semi-finals, he lost 19–21 to Appleton in the final. Selby had edged into the lead, 19–18, before Appleton won three consecutive to cross the finishing line. Pool finals: 2 (1 title) See also References External links Profile on World Snooker website Profile on Snooker Database website Profile on Global Snooker website (2014 archive) Mark Selby's blog on LivingSnooker (last posted April 2014) 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Leicester English snooker players English pool players Masters (snooker) champions World champions in pool World champions in snooker World number one snooker players UK champions (snooker) People from Leicester Winners of the professional snooker world championship People from Oadby and Wigston (district) Sportspeople from Leicestershire