Rhys Clark (born 17 August 1994) is a former Scottish professional snooker player.
From the village of Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire in Scotland, Clark started playing snooker from aged 11. As an amateur he featured in various professional tournaments with his best results coming in the 2014 World Snooker Championship first round qualifier where he beat Mike Dunn 10âÂÂ2 and the 2015 Indian Open wildcard round where he beat former professional Pankaj Advani 4âÂÂ3.
In the first event of the 2015 Q School, Clark reached the final round and made breaks of 63 and 59 against Leo Fernandez and won 4âÂÂ1, a win which gave Clark a two-year card to the World Snooker Tour for the 2015âÂÂ16 season and 2016âÂÂ17 seasons. He won his first match by beating Grant Miles 5âÂÂ1 in the 2015 Australian Goldfields Open qualifiers, before losing by a reverse of this scoreline to Li Hang. At the UK Championship he was knocked out in the first round 1âÂÂ6 by Mark Davis. A 5âÂÂ0 whitewash over Ken Doherty with a high break of 104 saw Clark qualify for the China Open. In Clark's first appearance at a Chinese ranking event he won a match at a venue for the first time by beating Davis 5âÂÂ4. In the next round Clark made breaks over 50 in each of the four frames he won, but was edged out 4âÂÂ5 by Alfie Burden. His first season as a professional ended with an opening round 5âÂÂ10 defeat to David Gilbert in World Championship qualifying.
Clark received a bye to the second round of the 2016 English Open and then eliminated Lee Walker 4âÂÂ2 and Kyren Wilson 4âÂÂ3 (finished the match with 50 plus breaks in five successive frames) to advance to the last 16 of a ranking event for the first time and he lost 1âÂÂ4 to Stuart Bingham. Clark earned a second round televised match with Ronnie O'Sullivan at the UK Championship after squeezing past Li Hang 6âÂÂ5, but was whitewashed 0âÂÂ6. He knocked out Sean O'Sullivan 4âÂÂ1 and Mitchell Mann at the Gibraltar Open, before losing 2âÂÂ4 to Neil Robertson Clark ended the season 75th in the world rankings, but has earned a new two-year tour card through the one-year ranking list.