Matthew Selt has been given a suspended ban and ordered to pay £21,000 in fines and authorized prices, it was introduced by the WPBSA on Sunday.
The Englishman was discovered to be in breach of the WPBSA Conduct Rules along with his contract with the World Snooker Tour.
The assertion defined that the case stemmed from incidents that happened throughout his involvement on the 2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters.
Selt accepted the costs and made an apology, however sanctions had been nonetheless deemed to be obligatory.
A 3-month suspended ban shall be hanging over the 39 year-old’s head till the conclusion of the 2025/26 snooker season.
It’s not the primary time that Selt, who misplaced in Riyadh within the final 48 to Pang Junxu, has been on the centre of controversy.
Certainly, there was a broadly shared incident on the German Masters qualifiers in December the place he could possibly be heard shouting upon dropping a deciding body to teenage tour rookie Artemijs Zizins.
The previous Indian Open champion is the present world quantity 33 and is the vice chairman of the WPBSA Gamers board.
Matthew Selt didn’t qualify for this week’s World Open however will participate on the upcoming World Grand Prix, the place he has been drawn to face world champion Kyren Wilson.
The complete WPBSA assertion
In October 2024 Matthew Selt was charged with breaches of the WPBSA Conduct Rules and his contract with World Snooker.
This arose from incidents that happened on the Saudi Masters Snooker occasion in August/September 2024. Mr Selt is the Vice Chairman of the WPBSA Gamers, the gamers affiliation.
There have been three fees:
- That he was aggressive in his behaviour and was impolite and abusive in his language in direction of a Matchroom Senior Govt within the presence of an necessary WST Associate.
- That he despatched an abusive textual content to a WPBSA Member
- That he was aggressive in his behaviour and was impolite and abusive in his language in direction of a WPBSA Member.
On 18th February 2025 he absolutely accepted the allegations made towards him and made a full and wholehearted apology to the individuals involved. It was accepted that Mr Selt was beneath a big quantity of stress and strain on the time of the incidents.
The sanction imposed was:
- a suspension of three (3) months suspended till the tip of the 2025/2026 snooker season, such suspension to be reactivated upon Mr Selt being discovered responsible of, or pleading responsible to, any additional breaches of the Rules and/or Contract in that interval;
- a effective of £10,000;
- to pay £11,000 in direction of the WPBSA’s authorized prices
Extracts from the WPBSA Conduct Rules and WSL Gamers Contract
WPBSA Conduct Rules
1.1 Members shall, always (i.e. whether or not at a Event or not), behave in a correct and proper method per their standing as an expert sportsperson.
1.3. A Member shall not make or trigger to be made any assertion or commit or trigger to be dedicated any act which within the affordable view of the WPBSA is prone to convey into disrepute the video games of snooker and/or billiards.
WSL Gamers Contract
3.1.5 Behave in an expert and respected method befitting an expert sportsperson.
3.1.10 Deal with all Snooker Events, the general public and some other folks related to WSL Occasions with respect and never talk or behave in an abusive, insulting, disrespectful, racist, sexist, homophobic, intimidating, threatening or violent method.
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