Career
He is Switzerland"s second professional snooker player after Darren Paris, who competed on the main tour in the mid-1990s. Having qualified for the main tour through Q-School in 2013, where he defeated Paul Wykes in his quarter-final match, Ursenbacher lost his professional status upon the expiry of his two-year tour card in 2015. Ursenbacher started playing snooker in 2008.
In 2013 he turned professional by coming through Q School.
After an early defeat in Event One, he played superbly throughout Event Two, losing just one frame in four matches and scoring a top break of 140. He beat nine-time Ladies World Champion Reanne Evans 4–1, then in the final round he saw off experienced former pro Paul Wykes 4–0.
Ursenbacher experienced a tough start to his debut season as a professional, losing his first seven matches. He lost in the next round 10–5 to Thepchaiya Un-Nooh.
Ursenbacher qualified for the first ranking event of the 2014/2015 season, the 2014 Wuxi Classic, by beating Kyren Wilson 5–4, but had to withdraw from the tournament due to being unable to enter China because of a visa problem.
He defeated Martin O"Donnell 5–4 in the first round of qualifying for the Australian Goldfields Open, before losing 5–2 to Lyu Haotian and then lost a further 14 consecutive matches to be relegated from the tour as the world number 119. In the second event he was eliminated in the last 32 by Joe Roberts.
