Ben Mertens

Nationality: Belgium

(Belgium); Male; Born: 13 Oct 2004 (18 years)
Status: Professional; First season as pro: 2022;
Ranking: 111;
Twitter: @benmertens2004; Other sources: CueTracker ; World Snooker

Shoot Out (25-28 Jan 2023)
Rd 1		Anthony Hamilton		v		Ben Mertens
German Masters Qual (21-26 Nov 2022)
Q Rd 2		Barry Pinches [84]	5	-	4	Ben Mertens [102]
UK Championship Qual (5-10 Nov 2022)
Q Rd 1		Martin O'Donnell (a)	6	-	4	Ben Mertens [102]
English Open Qual (25-30 Oct 2022)
Q Rd 2		Ronnie O'Sullivan [2]	4	-	3	Ben Mertens [99]
Scottish Open Qual (9-14 Oct 2022)
Q Rd 1		Ashley Hugill [103]	4	-	1	Ben Mertens [99]
Q Rd 1	re-spotted black in frame 3 (66-66)
British Open (26 Sep - 2 Oct 2022)
Rd 1		Craig Steadman [79]	4	-	3	Ben Mertens [116]
Northern Ireland Open Qual (23-28 Aug 2022)
Q Rd 2		Noppon Saengkham [38]	4	-	0	Ben Mertens [98]
British Open Qual (9-14 Aug 2022)
Q Rd 1		Ben Mertens [116]	4	-	1	Ryan Thomerson [113]
Championship League Stage One Group 7 (19 Jul 2022)
Grp		Ben Mertens	3	-	1	Xu Si [69]
Grp		Ben Mertens	3	-	1	Liam Highfield [33]
Grp		Shaun Murphy [7]	2	-	2	Ben Mertens
European Masters Qual (15-24 Jul 2022)
Q Rd 1		David Grace [52]	5	-	2	Ben Mertens [110]
Q School 3 (28 May - 2 Jun 2022)
Rd 3		Steven Hallworth	4	-	1	Ben Mertens (a)
Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	1	Halim Hussain (a)
Q School 2 (22-27 May 2022)
Final		Zak Surety	4	-	2	Ben Mertens (a)
Final	27-70, 62-19, 38-79, 82-8, 65-56, 63-39 Surety earns a spot on the World Snooker Tour for 2022/2023 and 2023/2024.
Rd 5		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	1	Liam Davies (a)
Rd 4		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	0	Eden Sharav (a)
Rd 3		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	0	Alfie Davies (a)
Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a)	w/o			Muhammad Imran (a)
Q School 1 (16-21 May 2022)
Rd 2		Liu Hongyu (a)	4	-	3	Ben Mertens (a)
Q Tour Play Off (10-11 May 2022)
Rd 1		Ryan Davies (a) [15]	4	-	1	Ben Mertens (a) [2]
World Championship Qual (4-13 Apr 2022)
Q Rd 1		Louis Heathcote [101]	6	-	5	Ben Mertens (a)
Q Tour 4 (18-20 Mar 2022)
Rd 3		Michael Georgiou (a) [24]	3	-	1	Ben Mertens (a) [4]
Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a) [4]	3	-	1	Kuldesh Johal (a) [29]
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a) [4]	3	-	1	Jenson Kendrick (a) [44]
Q Tour 3 (28-30 Jan 2022)
SF		Julien Leclercq (a) [68]	4	-	2	Ben Mertens (a) [8]
SF	64-67, 75-18 (68), 108-13, 79-5 (78), 0-65, 93-0 (93)
QF		Ben Mertens (a) [8]	4	-	0	Mink Nutcharut (af)
Rd 3		Ben Mertens (a) [8]	3	-	1	Michael White (a) [3]
Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a) [8]	3	-	0	Florian Nüßle (a) [39]
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a) [8]	3	-	0	Sergey Isaenko (a) [57]
Q Tour 2 (10-12 Dec 2021)
SF		Michael White (a)	4	-	0	Ben Mertens (a)
SF	74-53, 76-4 (76), 137-0 (137), 103-4 (98)
QF		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	1	Sanderson Lam (a)
Rd 3		Ben Mertens (a)	3	-	1	Ian Martin (a)
Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a)	3	-	1	Soheil Vahedi (a)
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a)	w/o			Julien Leclercq (a)
Q Tour 1 (19-21 Nov 2021)
Rd 1		Simon Bedford (a)	w/o			Ben Mertens (a)
Rd 1	Mertens has withdrawn
Q School 3 (8-13 Jun 2021)
Rd 4		Lei Peifan	4	-	2	Ben Mertens (a)
Rd 3		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	2	Niel Vincent (a)
Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	0	Evan Munro (a)
Q School 2 (2-7 Jun 2021)
Rd 2		David Donovan (a)	4	-	3	Ben Mertens (a)
Q School 1 (27 May - 1 Jun 2021)
Rd 2		Lee Stephens (a)	4	-	3	Ben Mertens (a)
World Championship Qual (5-14 Apr 2021)
Q Rd 1		Lei Peifan [98]	6	-	5	Ben Mertens (a)	Lei was 5-1 down
Shoot Out (4-7 Feb 2021)
Rd 2		Robert Milkins [28]	37	-	0	Ben Mertens (a)
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a)	44	-	10	Zak Surety [84]
Rd 1	Mertens replaced Kacper Filipiak who withdrew
European Masters (21-27 Sep 2020)
Rd 1		Robert Milkins [49]	5	-	0	Ben Mertens (a)
Q School 3 (5-9 Aug 2020)
Rd 3		Steven Hallworth (a)	4	-	3	Ben Mertens (a)
Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a)	3	-	0	Paul Burrell (a)
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a)	3	-	1	Patrick Whelan (a)
Q School 2 (4-8 Aug 2020)
Rd 2		Ryan Cronin (a)	3	-	1	Ben Mertens (a)
Q School 1 (3-7 Aug 2020)
Rd 5		Simon Blackwell (a)	4	-	0	Ben Mertens (a)
Rd 4		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	0	Brian Ochoiski (a)
Rd 3		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	1	Mark Anthony Taylor (a)
Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a)	3	-	2	Jack Smithers (a)
World Championship Qual (21-28 Jul 2020)
Q Rd 2		Sam Baird [68]	6	-	4	Ben Mertens (a)
Q Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a)	6	-	2	James Cahill [93]
Challenge Tour 10 (1-2 Mar 2020)
Rd 3		Matthew Glasby (a) [25]	3	-	2	Ben Mertens (a) [24]
Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a) [24]	3	-	2	Steven Hallworth (a) [22]
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a) [24]	3	-	1	Iulian Boiko (a) [30]
Challenge Tour 5 (28-29 Feb 2020)
Rd 1		Ross Muir (a) [29]	3	-	1	Ben Mertens (a) [25]
Challenge Tour 9 (15-16 Feb 2020)
QF		Leo Fernandez (a) [42]	3	-	1	Ben Mertens (a) [23]
Rd 3		Ben Mertens (a) [23]	3	-	1	Kuldesh Johal (a) [44]
Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a) [23]	3	-	0	Peter Devlin (a) [28]
Challenge Tour 7 (14-15 Dec 2019)
QF		Dean Young (a) [13]	3	-	0	Ben Mertens (a) [27]
Rd 3		Ben Mertens (a) [27]	3	-	0	Patrick Whelan (a) [10]
Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a) [27]	3	-	0	Robbie McGuigan (a) [8]
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a) [27]	3	-	0	Sanderson Lam (a) [11]
Challenge Tour 4 (19-20 Oct 2019)
Rd 1		Alex Taubman (a) [41]	3	-	0	Ben Mertens (a) [34]
Challenge Tour 3 (5-6 Oct 2019)
Rd 3		Andrew Pagett (a) [4]	3	-	0	Ben Mertens (a) [38]
Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a) [38]	3	-	2	Paul S Davison (a) [26]
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a) [38]	3	-	0	Kayden Brierley (a)
Challenge Tour 2 (21-22 Sep 2019)
Rd 2		Jeff Cundy (a)	3	-	2	Ben Mertens (a) [40]
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a) [40]	3	-	2	Paul S Davison (a) [26]
Challenge Tour 1 (31 Aug - 1 Sep 2019)
Rd 1		Robbie McGuigan (a)	3	-	1	Ben Mertens (a)
Paul Hunter Classic (24-25 Aug 2019)
Rd 1		Joe Perry [5]	4	-	0	Ben Mertens (a)
Q School 3 (30 May - 4 Jun 2019)
Rd 2		Adam Duffy (a)	4	-	1	Ben Mertens (a)
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	3	John Welsh (a)
Q School 2 (24-29 May 2019)
Rd 2		Noel Landers (a)	4	-	2	Ben Mertens (a)
Q School 1 (18-23 May 2019)
Rd 2		Matthew Glasby (a)	4	-	3	Ben Mertens (a)
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	1	Garry Coulson (a)
Shoot-Out (21-24 Feb 2019)
Rd 2		Ryan Davies (a)	37	-	12	Ben Mertens (a)
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a)	60	-	59	James Wattana [103]
German Masters Qual (18-21 Dec 2018)
Q Rd 1		Yuan Sijun [63]	5	-	0	Ben Mertens (a)
Paul Hunter Classic (22-26 Aug 2018)
Rd 2		Andrew Higginson [24]	4	-	0	Ben Mertens (a)
Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	1	Adam Stefanow
Q Rd 2		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	0	Jan Matejicek (a)
Q Rd 1		Ben Mertens (a)	4	-	1	Marvin Losi (a)
Paul Hunter Classic (22-27 Aug 2017)
Q Rd 2		Patrick Einsle (a)	4	-	2	Ben Mertens (a)
Euro Tour 2 (26-30 Aug 2015)
Q Rd 2		Ben Jones (a)	4	-	0	Ben Mertens (a)