Sahil Nayyar
Sahil Nayyar is a professional snooker player. Representing Canada, he won the 2024 Pan American Championship to earn a place on the World Snooker Tour from the 2025-26 snooker season.
Career
He won the Ontario Challenge Series in December 2022, also scoring the highest break of the tournament; 124. That year, he was a member of the winning team at the Snooker Canada World Cup Team Championship.
In October 2024, he defeated Brazil’s Fabio Anderson Luersen 5-1 in the final of the 2024 Pan American Open Snooker Championship. He had reached the final with back-to-back whitewash victories over Andy McCloskey and Floyd Ziegler. With the win, Nayyar earned a two-year World Snooker Tour tour card starting from the 2025-26 snooker season.
On his debut tournament as a professional he was drawn against Welshman Matthew Stevens at the 2025 Wuhan Open. At his second tournament, the 2025 British Open, with qualifiers also played in June 2025, he was drawn against Martin O'Donnell. He earned a 2-2 draw against Dylan Emery on 17 July 2025 in the 2025 Championship League. Nayyar recorded his first win as a professional against a wild card entrant at the 2025 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters in August. He recorded his second on 11 December 2025 against Antoni Kowalski at the 2025 Snooker Shoot Out.
Personal life
He was born in city Ludhiana, in Punjab and started playing snooker at the age of 14 years-old. He moved to Canada in 2018 and studied Global Business Management and Global Hospitality Management at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario. He is married.