Michael Leslie (born 28 January 1993) is a Scottish former professional snooker player.
Leslie turned professional in 2012 after winning the 2012 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships and gained a two-year tour card for the 2012âÂÂ13 and 2013âÂÂ14 snooker seasons.
Leslie lost his first sixteen matches as a professional, picking up his first and only victory in the first round of World Open Qualifying by beating Michael Wasley 5âÂÂ3, before losing 1âÂÂ5 to Thepchaiya Un-Nooh. Leslie's season ended when he was beaten 4âÂÂ10 by Dechawat Poomjaeng in the first round of World Championship Qualifying. He finished his first year on tour ranked world number 94.
Leslie could not win more than one match in any event during the 2013âÂÂ14 season. He did reach the second round of a ranking event for the first time in his career at the UK Championship by coming back from 4âÂÂ0 down against Jack Lisowski to win 6âÂÂ4, a performance he described as the best of his career so far, but he then lost 6âÂÂ3 against Liang Wenbo in the next round. Leslie was beaten 10âÂÂ6 by amateur player Christopher Keogan in the opening round of World Championship qualifying. He was relegated from the main tour as he ended the season ranked world number 101, well outside of the top 64 who remain. Leslie played in the 2014 Q School to try and win his spot back and succeeded in the second event by defeating Eden Sharav in his final match to earn a new two-year tour card for the 2014âÂÂ15 and 2015âÂÂ16 seasons.
In the qualifying rounds of the 2014 Australian Goldfields Open, Leslie beat Hammad Miah 5âÂÂ4 and Sam Baird 5âÂÂ3 to play in the final round, but was narrowly eliminated 5âÂÂ4 by Marcus Campbell. Later in the season after losing eight matches in a row, Leslie recorded the result of his career to date by defeating Mark Allen, a player ranked 106 places above him in the rankings, 5âÂÂ1 to qualify for the China Open. There, he reached the last 32 of a ranking event for the first time with a 5âÂÂ1 victory over Joe O'Connor, but was thrashed 5âÂÂ0 by Mark Williams.
A disappointing season saw Leslie fail to qualify for any ranking event other than the UK Championship and Welsh Open, for which he gained automatic entry and he failed to pick up a frame in either of those as he lost in the first round to Gerard Greene and Judd Trump. He finished the season 94th in the world rankings and therefore fell off the snooker tour.