page_title: Michael Wasley
section_title: 2013/2014 season
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Wasley / Career / 2013/2014 season
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bild aufgenommen in Berlin während des German Masters im Snooker 2015. Michael Wasley. English: Picture taken in Berlin during the Snooker German Masters in 2015. Michael Wasley.
context_page_description: Michael Wasley is an English former professional snooker player.
  Wasley turned professional in 2012 after qualifying via Event 3 of Q School and gained a two-year tour card for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 snooker seasons. He won five matches in the event, concluding with a 4–3 victory over Fraser Patrick. His biggest achievement to date is reaching the last 16 of the 2014 World Championship.
context_section_description: Wasley reached the Wuxi Classic, the first ranking event of the 2013–14 season, thanks to Ronnie O'Sullivan's withdrawal due to medical reasons and lost 5–1 against Gerard Greene in the first round. He played at the main venue in four more ranking events but lost in the first round in all of them. His best run in European Tour events was at the Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup where he saw off James Wattana, Zhang Anda and Peter Ebdon, before being beaten 4–3 by Jamie Jones. Two other last 32 exits helped Wasley finish 47th on the Order of Merit.
  In qualifying for the World Championship, Wasley squeezed past Sydney Wilson 10–9 and then beat Rory McLeod and Mark Joyce both 10–6 to stand just one victory away from playing in the sport's biggest event for the first time. He played world number 16 Robert Milkins in a dramatic match that went to a respotted black in the deciding frame which Wasley potted to reach the Crucible. In the first round, Wasley caused one of the biggest upsets in the tournament's history by eliminating world number two Ding Junhui 10–9 after having trailed 6–3 at the end of the opening session. In the second round he fell 7–1 down to Dominic Dale and could never recover as he was beaten 13–4. Despite this run, Wasley could not quite reach the top 64 in the rankings as he was placed number 72, which would have seen him relegated from the tour. However, he received the fourth of eight spots available on the European Tour for non-qualified players to earn a new two-year tour card for the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons.
caption: Michael Wasley at the 2015 German Masters
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