Rouzi Maimaiti

Rouzi Maimaiti (Chinese: 肉孜买买提; born 4 July 1983) is an Uyghur Chinese professional snooker player.

Rouzi Maimaiti
肉孜买买提
Born (1983-07-04) 4 July 1983
Sport country China
Professional2014–2017
Highest ranking92 (July–August 2015)[1][2]
Career winnings£7,050
Highest break104:
2014 Dongguan Open
Century breaks1
Best ranking finishLast 32 (2012 Wuxi Classic)

Career

Maimaiti has been a wildcard player at several ranking tournaments before turning professional.[3] He lost the majority of the matches except a 5–1 over Dave Harold in the 2012 Wuxi Classic, before suffering a reverse to Mark Allen in the last 32 stage.[3] Also in the 2012–13 season, Maimaiti entered into the new Asian Players Tour Championship events with little success, winning only one match[3] The 2013/2014 events were much more successful and with eight wins in the four events[3] Maimaiti was able to qualify for one of the four professional World Snooker Tour cards available through the Asian Tour of Merit money list.[3] Maimaiti qualified for the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons[3][4] and then re-qualified for the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons.

Professional

Rouzi only played in the three Asian Tour events during the 2014–15 season. He won four matches to reach the quarter-finals of the Xuzhou Open, where he lost 4–1 to Joe Perry which saw him finish 25th on the Order of Merit.[5][6] The following season he only played in the Haining Open, losing 4–1 to Tom Ford in the second round.[7] Despite dropping off the tour having finished a lowly 115th in the world, he received the Chinese nomination for a new two-year tour place.[8][9] He did not enter a single event in the 2016–17 season.[10]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2010/
11
2011/
12
2012/
13
2013/
14
2014/
15
2015/
16
2016/
17
2017/
18
2018/
19
2019/
20
Ranking[11][nb 1] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 3] 118 [nb 4] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 2]
Ranking tournaments
World Open A WR A A Not held A A A A
Players Championship[nb 5] DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ
China Open WR A A A A A A A A A
Non-ranking tournaments
Haining Open Tournament Not Held MR 4R 2R 2R 1R
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic Non Ranking 1R A A Tournament Not Held
Shanghai Masters WR WR A A A A A A Non-Ranking
Former non-ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic A 1R Ranking Tournament Not Held
Performance Table Legend
LQ lost in the qualifying draw #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)
QF lost in the quarter-finals
SF lost in the semi-finals F lost in the final W won the tournament
DNQ did not qualify for the tournament A did not participate in the tournament WD withdrew from the tournament
NH / Not Heldmeans an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
  1. It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. He was an amateur.
  3. New players don't have a ranking.
  4. Players qualified through CBSA China Tour nomination started the season without ranking points.
  5. The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2012/2013)

References

  1. "WORLD RANKINGS After 2015 Australian Goldfields Open". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 2 August 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. "WORLD RANKINGS After 2015 The Kaspersky Lab Riga Open". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 30 August 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2015.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. "Rouzi Maimaiti". Pro Snooker Blog. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  4. "2014/15 List Of Tour Players". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 11 June 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  5. "Rouzi Maimaiti 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  6. "Asian Order of Merit 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  7. "Rouzi Maimaiti 2015/2016". Snooker.org. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  8. "Historic Seedings After 2016 World Championship". Snooker.org. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  9. "CBSA Announcement on World Snooker Tour Nominations". cbsa.com. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  10. "Rouzi Maimaiti 2016/2017". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  11. "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.