James Wattana is one of the richest Thai Snooker Player from Thailand. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, James Wattana's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Wattana, who was just 16 years old, won the Thailand Masters in 1986, his first major tournament. After winning the 1988 World Amateur Championship, Wattana became a professional in 1989. For winning the 1989 Kent Challenge in Hong Kong, he won the PS6,000 first prize. In the mid-1990s his career reached its peak when he won twice the Thailand Open and rose up to number three on the world rankings. Before Wattana became a professional player, snooker was dominated by British (and in a lesser degree, Canadian) players.
Wattana was a professional from 1989 to 2008 and again in 2009, reaching his highest ranking position, world number 3, for the 1994-1995 season. He has been the winner of three ranking tournaments: the 1992 Strachan Open, the Thailand Open, 1994 and 1995. He also finished as the runner up in five other ranking events. In 1993 and 1997, he reached the semi-finals at the World Snooker Championship. He was defeated by Jimmy White in the semi-finals of 1993 World Snooker Championship. This was Wattana’s second appearance on the Crucible Theatre’s final televised stage. His first was in the second round against Stephen Hendry the year before.
The 2011/12 season proved to be relatively good, managing to qualify in 2 of the 8 ranking events, the Shanghai Masters losing to Ronnie O’Sullivan 1–5 and the German Masters, beating Stephen Hendry 5–1 in the qualifiers, but then losing to Graeme Dott in the first round. At the end of the season he finished ranked 63, just inside the top 64.
