Farakh Ajaib
| Farakh Ajaib | |
|---|---|
| birthday | 3rd February 1991 (age 29) |
| place of birth | Blackburn , England |
| nationality |
 England
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| professional | since 2020 |
| Prize money | £ 1,630 |
| Highest break | - |
| Century Breaks | 130 |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | - |
| Ranking tournament victories | - |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
| World rankings | |
| Highest WRL place | - |
Farakh Ajaib (born February 3, 1991 in Blackburn ) is an English snooker player from Accrington . In 2020 he qualified as a professional for the Snooker Main Tour .
Career
Ajaib's father is from Pakistan and his mother was born in the UK. At the age of 12 he got into snooker through a friend who had a small snooker table at home. When he quickly outstripped this, he joined the Accrington Snooker Club in his hometown and moved to the Snooker Center in Burnley at the age of 15 , where he found a trainer. When the center closed in 2010, he went to Preston to the snooker club of ex-pro Shokat Ali . In addition to Ali, Stuart Pettman was another training partner. Another station was the Snooker Academy in Oldham in the Greater Manchester area .
After some successes in youth such as the U16 championship of North West England, he took part in the Pontin's International Open Series (PIOS) in the 2009/10 season to qualify for the professional tour. In the fifth of eight tournaments he defeated Shokat Ali, Jak Jones and Vincent Muldoon , but then lost the final 6-0 against Anthony McGill . Since he did not get far in the other tournaments and lost the opening game five times, he played no role in the PIOS rating. The following year the Players Tour Championship was introduced, in which amateurs and professionals took part. He survived the qualification three times and reached the first main round.
In 2012 Ajaib's uncle died and as a result he had to take on responsibility in the family butcher's shop. He left snooker for three years until he took up the cue again in 2016 at the age of 25. Success at the Snookerbacker Classic , where he once reached the finals and once the semifinals, encouraged him to make a new attempt on the Main Tour . His participation in the Q School was initially unsuccessful. It wasn't until 2018 that he took a step forward and first reached a quarter-final and then a semi-final in his respective group. That was not enough for qualification, but the Q-School rankings made him a successor for remaining free places at the professional tournaments, where he could gain experience. At the same time, he took part in the Challenge Tour , where he only ended up in midfield. In 2018 he also reached the northern English final at the English amateur championship.
At the Q School 2019 he had Lospech and met strong ex-professionals early in all three tournaments, to whom he was defeated. With that he also missed the Challenge Tour. The first two tournaments in 2020 did not go well either, although he was able to retaliate against Rory McLeod for the previous year's defeat. In the third tournament he only met amateurs and although he had to make the decision twice, he reached his group final. He defeated the Frenchman Brian Ochoiski 4-2 and, as a 29-year-old, secured participation in the professional tour for two seasons starting in 2020.
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- ↑ Profile of Farakh Ajaib on CueTracker (as of August 11, 2020)
- ↑ a b Farakh Ajaib: a Snooker Player with Natural Flair , Faisal Shafi, Desi Blitz, August 10, 2020
- ↑ Challenge Tour Rankings 2018/19 , snooker.org, accessed on August 11, 2020
Web links
- Farakh Ajaib at SnookerScores (WPBSA, English)
- Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)
- Farakh Ajaib in the snooker Database (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ajaib, Farakh |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English snooker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd February 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blackburn , England |