Everyone's childhood is short, and childhood experience will slowly fade with the passage of time, but the things experienced in childhood will subtly affect a person's personality and future.
The player we're going to talk about today, Mark Selby, looks at the gentleman, handsome, happy marriage, and harmonious family, but has an unknown upbringing, which has created his controversial style of play today.
Selby was born in Leicester, England, in 1983, and friends who like the Premier League know that Leicester City Football Club in the city won the Premier League in 2016.
Later Selby also contributed a little to "promoting" the city. Because of his humorous words and deeds on the court and the clown logo on his club, everyone began to call him: Lester Clown.
Life before the age of 8 was uneventful, but when Selby was 8 years old, her mother chose not to quit because her relationship with her father deteriorated, until she lost Selby to her father to raise.
Fortunately, Selby has a good father, Selby once mentioned in an interview that his father introduced him to the sport, but his father did not force him to do it, his father said that as long as Selby is happy to do this, then his father is happy.
His father worked hard to earn as much money as possible to provide Selby with the best opportunity in billiards development, and as a child his father often took him around the country to play on tour, and Selby won the British Under-15 Championship in 1998. Selby also said he would fight for every world championship for his father, whose love was like a mountain.
After his exposure to billiards, his father found a club for him to practice billiards, but within a few years, the club forbade him to go because other members feared that he would lose to a small child, which frustrated Selby.
Yet Selby didn't know that a heavier blow was waiting for him not far away.
In 1999, the year billiards Emperor Hendry won the World Championship for the seventh time, Selby was 16 years old. In September of that year, his father was diagnosed with cancer, and in October he died and left Selby.
It was also that year that Selby turned pro, but his father did not wait for one of his world titles.
At that time, Selby felt that the sky had fallen, and even felt that life was bleak for a while. He lost his mother's love in childhood, and at this time he lost his father, without his parents he could only live in his cousin's house, and with the help of relatives and friends, he struggled to maintain snooker training.
He lacked maternal love since he was a child, and at this time he lost his father, making him both inferior and strong. He constantly hinted in his heart that he must succeed and can "do whatever it takes", which has also created a new "grinding king" in the snooker world.
In the first few years of becoming a professional, Selby performed mediocrely and did not have a big breakthrough. Until 2007, the World Snooker Championship, Selby went all the way from the qualifiers, defeating Captain Carter, Murphy and other famous players, and meeting the wizard Higgins in the final. Unfortunately, the wizards at that time were also in the year of the fight, and although Selby chased 13:14 after 4:12, he finally lost to Higgins 13:18.
After this competition, it is also the first time that Selby has become one of the top 16 players in the world rankings.
In 2008, he won his first major at the Wembley Masters, his first triple-major title. The subsequent Welsh Open was again topped, his first ranking title.
Later, Selby became more mature and stable, often seeing Selby play smoothly, almost invincible, and when he played badly, he could rely on accurate defense to get continuous points on the phone again.
Since the 2011-2012 season, Selby has occupied the first place at the end of the year for seven consecutive seasons, and the only people who can create this record are Billiard Emperor Hendry (8 consecutive seasons) and the old king Davis (7 consecutive seasons).
It is worth mentioning the 2014 World Championships, where he won the crown with a final victory over O'Sullivan, becoming the ninth player to achieve a three-time grand slam. (Three major competitions: World Championships, Wembley Masters, British Championships)
When O'Sullivan as a child already had a standard table at home to play, Selby was turned away by the club because he played too well; when Ding Junhui's parents gave up his career to practice for him, Selby was abandoned by his mother and lost his father at the same time.
Some people like Hurricane Higgins' untamed style of play, some people like The Fire Teacher's smooth and fluent attack, some people like the wizard Higgins's precise mother ball control, and some people like Trump's violent aesthetic, but Selby's style of play has been criticized by many people.
If you didn't like Selby before, after learning about Selby's childhood experience, did you also have some "understanding" of his "grinding" style of play?
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