{{short description|English snooker player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}} {{Use British English|date=December 2018}} {{Infobox snooker player | name = Christopher Keogan | image = Christopher Keogan PHC 2015-2.jpg | caption = Keogan in 2015 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1992|8|26|df=yes}} | birth_place = Doncaster, Yorkshire, England | Sport country = {{ENG}} | Professional = 2016&ndash;2018 | High ranking = 91 (June 2017)<ref>{{cite web |title=WORLD RANKINGS After 2017 Kaspersky Riga Masters |url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/rankings/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703231319/http://www.worldsnooker.com/rankings/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 July 2017 |website=World Snooker |accessdate=3 July 2017}}</ref> | Official maximums = | Best finish = Last 16 (x1) | Ranking wins = | World champ = }}

'''Christopher Keogan''' (born 26 August 1992) is an English former professional snooker player.

==Career== From the town of Doncaster, Yorkshire in England, Keogan started playing snooker at the age of 6. In his early years he was coached by Steve Prest and at age 13 was widely considered one of the most promising upcoming snooker talents, with then world champion Shaun Murphy tipping Keogan as a future world champion himself.<ref name="DFP">{{cite web |title=Chris, 13, could be a world snooker champ one day |url=http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/chris-13-could-be-a-world-snooker-champ-one-day-1-499953 |publisher=Doncaster Free Press |date=20 April 2006 |accessdate=29 November 2016 |archive-date=30 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130044100/http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/chris-13-could-be-a-world-snooker-champ-one-day-1-499953 |url-status=dead}}</ref> At the first event of the 2016 Q School, Keogan defeated highly rated youngsters Jamie Clarke and Adam Stefanow as well as former professionals Lü Chenwei and Joel Walker before he reached the final round against Marc Davis whom he defeated 4–0, a win which gave Keogan a two-year card to the World Snooker Tour for the 2016–17 season and 2017–18 seasons.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/q-school-event-one-qualifiers/ |title=Q School Event One Qualifiers |date=16 May 2016 |publisher=World Snooker |accessdate=29 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/36325951 |title=World Snooker: Five Chinese players earn two-year tour cards |date=24 May 2016 |publisher=BBC Sport |accessdate=31 March 2019}}</ref> He lost in the last 64 of four events during his first season as a professional.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?season=2016&player=416 |title=Christopher Keogan 2016/2017 |publisher=Snooker.org |accessdate=11 April 2017}}</ref> He dropped off the tour at the end of the 2017/18 season but entered the 2018 Q School in an attempt to win back a place.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/grace-remains-course-tour-return/ |title=Grace Remains on Course for Tour Return |date=22 May 2018}}</ref>

== Personal life == Keogan is a keen football fan and is a supporter of Doncaster Rovers. Keogan is also an enthusiastic badminton player. His childhood idol was Paul Hunter.<ref name="DFP"/> He has three older siblings one brother and two sisters.

==Performance and rankings timeline== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%;" ! Tournament ! 2013/<br/>14 ! 2015/<br/>16 ! 2016/<br/>17 ! 2017/<br/>18 ! 2019/<br/>20 |- | style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Ranking<ref name="Ranking history">{{cite web |title=Ranking History |url=http://www.snooker.org/rnk/history.asp |publisher=Snooker.org |accessdate=6 February 2011}}</ref><ref group="nb">It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.</ref> | align="center" |<ref group="nb" name="AMA">He was an amateur.</ref> | align="center" |<ref group="nb" name="AMA"/> | align="center" |<ref group="nb" name="UR">New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.</ref> | align="center" |90 | align="center" |<ref group="nb" name="AMA"/> |- | colspan="20" | '''Ranking tournaments''' |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Riga Masters |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NH |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|MR |align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R |align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R |align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|3R |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | International Championship |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | China Championship |align="center" colspan="2" style="color:#555555;"|Not Held |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NR |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | English Open |align="center" colspan="2" style="color:#555555;"|Not Held |align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R |align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | World Open |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NH |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Northern Ireland Open |align="center" colspan="2" style="color:#555555;"|Not Held |style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R |style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | UK Championship |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R |style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Scottish Open |align="center" colspan="2" style="color:#555555;"|Not Held |style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R |style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | European Masters |align="center" colspan="2" style="color:#555555;"|Not Held |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | German Masters |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | World Grand Prix |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NH |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Welsh Open |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R |style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Shoot-Out |align="center" colspan="2" style="color:#555555;"|NR |align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R |align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Players Championship |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Gibraltar Open |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NH |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|MR |style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R |style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Tour Championship |align="center" colspan="4" style="color:#555555;"|Tournament Not Held |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | World Championship |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |- | colspan="20" | '''Former ranking tournaments''' |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Wuxi Classic |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |colspan="30" style="text-align:center;color:#555555;" |Not Held |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Australian Goldfields Open |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |colspan="30" style="text-align:center;color:#555555;" |Not Held |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Shanghai Masters |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NR |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Paul Hunter Classic |align="center" colspan="2" style="color:#555555;"|MR |align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|2R |align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NH |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Indian Open |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NH |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NH |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" | China Open |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ |align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NH |} {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:78%;" |- ! colspan="6"|Performance Table Legend |- | align="center" style="color:#555555;" width="30"|LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|#R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament<br />(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | lost in the quarter-finals |- | align="center" style="background:yellow;"|SF | lost in the semi-finals | align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8;"|F | lost in the final | align="center" style="background:#00ff00;"|'''W''' | won the tournament |- | align="center" style="color:#555555;" width="30"|DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | align="center" style="color:#555555;" width="30"|A | did not participate in the tournament | align="center" style="color:#555555;" width="30"|WD | withdrew from the tournament |} {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%" |- | style="text-align:center; color:#555555;" colspan="4"|NH / Not Held || means an event was not held. |- | style="text-align:center; color:#555555;" colspan="4"|NR / Non-Ranking Event || means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. |- | style="text-align:center; color:#555555;" colspan="4"|R / Ranking Event || means an event is/was a ranking event. |- | style="text-align:center; color:#555555;" colspan="4"|MR / Minor-Ranking Event || means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. |} {{reflist|group="nb"}}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category}} * {{WST player|old_id=christopher-keogan|archive=20230620142554}} * {{WPBSA SnookerScores player}} * {{Snooker.org player}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Keogan, Christopher}} Category:1992 births Category:Living people Category:English snooker players Category:Sportspeople from Doncaster Category:21st-century English sportsmen