Marco Fu has been named because the inaugural WPBSA Gamers’ Participant of the Month by his fellow gamers following the launch of the brand new month-to-month award this season.
Launched by WPBSA Gamers, the Gamers’ Participant of the Month award recognises excellent efficiency, as voted by fellow gamers. Its key intention is to honour excellence, consistency, and influence on the desk, as recognised by those that perceive the calls for of the sport greatest.
Every month all through the 2025/26 season a shortlist shall be compiled by an unbiased panel. The panel contains famend snooker broadcasters David Hendon and Abigail Davies, sports activities journalist Phil Haigh and WPBSA Gamers Director Tian Pengfei.
Fab Fu Honoured for June
Hong Kong China’s Marco Fu was chosen because the inaugural Gamers’ Participant of the Month following his profitable double qualification for the ultimate phases of the each the Wuhan and British Open tournaments which included 5 century breaks within the 15-frames he performed throughout the 2 occasions.
Having acquired a brand new two-year invitational tour card firstly of the season, Fu’s first win got here towards world quantity 16 Chris Wakelin as he hit prime breaks of 136, 120, 113 and 68 to e-book his place in Wuhan.
A repeat seemed unlikely in his subsequent British Open qualifier towards Stephen Maguire as he trailed 0-3, earlier than the three-time world rating occasion winner rebounded with runs of 140, 81, 104 and 54 to finish a formidable comeback and seal his place on the venue phases.
The 47-year-old received the honour, receiving 62% of the vote, forward of England’s Reanne Evans and Louis Heathcote, who additionally received each of their qualification matches.
Gamers together with David Grace, Stan Moody, Fergal Quinn and Bai Yulu had been additionally thought of for the ultimate shortlist.
Fu mentioned, “To be chosen as the primary ever WPBSA Gamers Participant of the Month for my performances on the qualifiers in June is a nice shock certainly. The performances had been a little bit of a shock too!
“To be recognised by my friends for these performances, is an actual bonus so as to add to a stable begin to the brand new season”.
Ken Doherty, WPBSA Gamers Chairman mentioned: “Congratulations to Marco Fu on an amazing begin to the season. Unimaginable performances in his opening two matches. He’s, as voted by his fellow professionals, our first ever WPBSA Gamers Participant of the Month!”
