Sahil Nayyar
Canadian snooker player (born 1993)
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Sahil Nayyar (born 29 September 1993) is a professional snooker player. Representing Canada, he won the 2024 Pan American Championship to earn a place on the World Snooker Tour from the 2025-26 snooker season.[2]
Sahil Nayyar pictured with the Pan American Trophy | |
| Born | 29 September 1993[1] Ludhiana, India |
|---|---|
| Sport country |  Canada |
| Professional | 2025–present |
| Highest ranking | 118 (August 2025) |
| Current ranking | 125 (as of 5 May 2026) |
| Best ranking finish | Last 64 (2025 Snooker Shoot Out) |
Career
He won the Ontario Challenge Series in December 2022, also scoring the highest break of the tournament; 124.[3] That year, he was a member of the winning team at the Snooker Canada World Cup Team Championship.[4]
In October 2024, he defeated Brazil’s Fabio Anderson Luersen 5-1 in the final of the 2024 Pan American Open Snooker Championship. He had reached the final with back-to-back whitewash victories over Andy McCloskey and Floyd Ziegler.[5] With the win, Nayyar earned a two-year World Snooker Tour (WST) tour card starting from the 2025-26 snooker season.[6][7]
2025–26 season
On his debut tournament as a professional he was drawn against Welshman Matthew Stevens at the 2025 Wuhan Open. At his second tournament, the 2025 British Open, with qualifiers also played in June 2025, he was drawn against Martin O'Donnell.[8] He earned a 2-2 draw against Dylan Emery on 17 July 2025 in the 2025 Championship League.[9] Nayyar recorded his first win as a professional against a wild card entrant at the 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters in August. He recorded his second on 11 December 2025 against Antoni Kowalski at the 2025 Snooker Shoot Out.[10] In April, he recorded a 10-6 loss against Ian Burns in the first round of qualifying for the 2026 World Snooker Championship.[11]
2026–27 season
In June 2026, Nayyar recorded a 6-1 win over Liu Yang in the qualifying rounds of the 2026 China Open.[12] That month, he also recorded a win against Fergal Quinn in the first qualifying round of the 2026 Wuhan Open.[13]
Personal life
He was born in city Ludhiana, in Punjab and started playing snooker at the age of 14 years-old. He moved to Canada in 2018 and studied Global Business Management and Global Hospitality Management at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario. He is married.[14][15]
Performance and rankings timeline
| Tournament | 2025/ 26 |
2026/ 27 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking[nb 1] | [nb 2] | 96 | |||||||
| Ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Championship League | RR | ||||||||
| China Open | NH | LQ | |||||||
| Wuhan Open | LQ | ||||||||
| British Open | LQ | ||||||||
| English Open | LQ | ||||||||
| Xi'an Grand Prix | LQ | ||||||||
| Northern Ireland Open | LQ | ||||||||
| International Championship | LQ | ||||||||
| UK Championship | LQ | ||||||||
| Shoot Out | 2R | ||||||||
| Scottish Open | LQ | ||||||||
| German Masters | LQ | ||||||||
| Welsh Open | LQ | ||||||||
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | ||||||||
| Players Championship | DNQ | ||||||||
| World Open | LQ | ||||||||
| Tour Championship | DNQ | ||||||||
| World Championship | LQ | ||||||||
| Former ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Saudi Arabia Masters | 2R | 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 (2 titles)
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1. | 2024 | Pan American Amateur Championship |  Fabio Anderson Luersen |
5–1 |
| Winner | 2. | 2025 | Canadian Amateur Championship | Alan Whitfield |
5–2 |
