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Line 32: ==Career== Wattana won his first major tournament, the [[1986 Thailand Masters\|Thailand Masters]], in 1986, aged only 16. HeAs ~~turned~~an ~~professional in 1989~~amateur, ~~after~~he ~~winning~~won the ~~1988~~[[ACBS ~~World~~Asian ~~Amateur~~Snooker Championship.\|Asian HeSnooker ~~won~~Championship]] twice and the £6,000 first prize for winning the ~~1989~~1988 Kent Challenge in Hong Kong. He turned professional in 1989, after winning the 1988 [[IBSF World Snooker Championship\|World Amateur Championship]]. His career peaked in the mid-1990s, when he twice won the [[Thailand Open (snooker)\|Thailand Open]] and rose to number three in the [[snooker world rankings\|world rankings]]. Prior to Wattana becoming a professional, snooker had been dominated by [[United Kingdom\|British]] (and to a lesser extent [[Ireland\|Irish]], [[Canadians\|Canadian]] and [[Australia]]n) players. He was the eighth professional player to earn more than [[pound sterling\|£]]1 million in prize money, and with three maximums he is one of only eighteen players to have scored more than two [[maximum break]]s in competition. He scored his first one in 1991 at the [[World Masters]] and the second at the [[1992 British Open\|British Open]],<ref>{{cite web\|last=Turner\|first=Chris\|url=http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Max.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210111304/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Max.html\|archive-date=10 February 2013\|title=Maximum Breaks\|publisher=Chris Turner's Snooker Archive\|work=cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk\|access-date=2 April 2010}}</ref> which was then, at seven minutes and nine seconds, the fastest ever made.<ref>{{cite web\|last=Hodgson\|first=Guy\|title=O'Sullivan aims to realise maximum potential\|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4862133.html\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125033030/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4862133.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=25 January 2013\|publisher=[[The Independent]] on [[HighBeam Research]]\|access-date=27 May 2012}} {{Subscription required}}</ref>

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