Introduction
Dean Young (born 7 January 2002) is a Scottish professional snooker player.
Career
Young went to Firrhill High School and has been playing since the age of seven.He is based at the Locarno Snooker Club in Edinburgh.
He won the U-21 Scotland National Snooker Championship in 2018 and 2019 defeating Aaron Graham on both occasions.
In June 2021, Young came through event 3 of the 2021 Q School defeating Florian Nüßle and Mitchell Mann amongst others, before beating Haydon Pinhey 4–1 in the final round to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2021–2022 and 2022–2023 seasons. He was the only rookie from that year's Q-School.
After two years on the tour, he qualified again for a two-year card in June 2023 at Q School and described the first two years as his “apprenticeship”. He started the 2023-24 season in July 2023 at the2023 Championship League held at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, England. In the round-robin group stage he earned credible draws against top-50 ranked players Jak Jones and Jamie Jones.
Performance and rankings timeline
| Tournament | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking | 88 | ||||||||
| Ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Championship League | NR | A | RR | A | RR | ||||
| European Masters | A | A | LQ | LQ | LQ | ||||
| British Open | Not Held | 1R | 1R | LQ | |||||
| English Open | A | A | LQ | LQ | LQ | ||||
| Wuhan Open | Tournament Not Held | LQ | |||||||
| Northern Ireland Open | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
| International Championship | A | Not Held | LQ | ||||||
| UK Championship | A | A | 1R | LQ | |||||
| Shoot Out | 3R | 1R | 4R | 2R | |||||
| Scottish Open | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||
| German Masters | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||||
| Welsh Open | A | A | LQ | 1R | |||||
| Players Championship | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||
| World Open | A | Not Held | NH | ||||||
| Tour Championship | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||
| World Championship | LQ | LQ | LQ | LQ | |||||
| Non-ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Six-red World Championship | A | Not Held | LQ | ||||||
| Former ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| WST Pro Series | NH | RR | Not Held | ||||||
| Turkish Masters | Not Held | LQ | Not Held | ||||||
| Gibraltar Open | A | A | WD | Not Held | |||||
| WST Classic | Not Held | 1R | NH | ||||||
| Performance Table Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) |
QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
| SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
| DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament |
| NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. | |||
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. | |||
| R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. | |||
| MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. | |||
Career finals
Amateur finals: 2 (1 title)
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score |
| Winner | 1. | 2019 | Challenge Tour – Event 7 | Andrew Pagett | 3–1 |