Snooker’s next Hong Kong resident? 4-time world champion Mark Selby is applying: sources
English former world No 1 could join Quality Migrant Admission Scheme and acquire Hong Kong ID card, Post is told
Four-time snooker world champion Mark Selby is considering following in the footsteps of Ronnie O’Sullivan and Judd Trump by becoming a Hong Kong resident, the Post has learned.
Sources said the Englishman was mulling taking up residency under the city’s Quality Migrant Admission Scheme, and an announcement could come within weeks.
According to people who talked to the Post, a player who was in the process of acquiring a Hong Kong identity card was an “Englishman with multiple world titles”.
Presently ranked No 5 in the world, Selby, 41, claimed world titles in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2021, a tally bettered by only four men in the modern era. He has enjoyed eight stints in the No 1 spot, most notably an uninterrupted spell lasting four years until March 2019.