Mohammed Shehab
| Born | 1976 |
|---|---|
| Sport country |
 United Arab Emirates |
| Professional | 1996/1997, 2006/2007 |
| Highest ranking | 90 (2006/2007) |
| Career winnings | £2,700[1] |
| Highest break | 136 (2006 UK Championship qualifying) |
| Century breaks | 2 |
| Best ranking finish | Last 80 (2007 Malta Cup) |
Mohammed Shehab is a former professional snooker player from the United Arab Emirates.
Career
Having gained experience of competitive snooker at the 1995 World Amateur Championship, Shehab turned professional in 1996.
In his first season on the main tour, he entered nine tournaments, but his best performances came in the 1997 International Open and the European Open, where he reached the third qualifying round. Shehab had recorded his first professional win in the former, a 5–3 defeat of Englishman Rajan Sharma, but added only five more; his 1997 World Championship campaign culminated in a 1–5 loss to Iain Trimble in his second match. He finished the season ranked 397th and, with the addition of the secondary UK Tour, was immediately relegated from the main tour.
Shehab did not play again competitively for five years, until he entered the 2002 World Amateur Championship. There, he compensated for losses to Martin Gould and Alex Borg with victories over Habib Subah and seven others to progress from his group. He beat Supoj Saenla and Martin McCrudden to reach the quarter-finals, but lost 5–6 there to Steve Mifsud.
This led Shehab to enter several events on the Challenge Tour, which had replaced the UK Tour, during the 2003/2004 season; he lost in the semi-finals of one event to Stefan Mazrocis, but progressed no further after this. In Event Two, he defeated seventeen-year-old Mark Allen 4–3, but lost to Steve James in his next match.
Although he entered only one tournament in the following two seasons - losing 1–4 to Andrew Higginson in Event 1 of the 2004 Challenge Tour - Shehab won back his place on the main tour in 2006.
His second season as a professional brought no more success than his first, Shehab winning only four matches and earning only £500. He defeated Stuart Pettman, Liu Song and Borg in the 2006 Grand Prix, and Liu again in the Malta Cup, but lost his final four matches. Following a 6–10 loss to Mark Joyce in qualifying for the 2007 World Championship, Shehab finished the season ranked 90th, and was relegated once more from the tour.
After playing as a wildcard entry in the 2009 Shanghai Masters, losing 3–5 to Graeme Dott, Shehab continued to play at amateur level, entering the World Amateur Championship each year. His best performance there came during the 2013 edition, when he reached the quarter-finals, where Lee Walker beat him 6–3.