Francisco Sánchez Ruíz
Francisco Sánchez
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nation | Spain | ||||||||||||
birthday | December 29, 1991 | ||||||||||||
Nickname | El Ferrari | ||||||||||||
society | Pool 9 Murcia | ||||||||||||
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Current WRL location | 23 (as of July 2, 2020) |
Francisco Sánchez Ruíz (born December 29, 1991 ) is a Spanish pool player . He became European champion in the 9-ball discipline in 2016 .
Career
singles
After Francisco Sánchez became Spanish Junior Champion in 2007, he won the Spanish Men's 9-Ball Championship in 2008 . In the same he was third in 8-Ball at the Junior European Championships . In July 2008, Sanchez came 17th at the Lugo Open. 2009 Sanchez Spanish 8-Ball champion and at the European Junior Championships third in 8-Ball and Vice European Champion in 9-Ball Junior. At the Lugo Open 2009, Sanchez finished fifth.
In February 2010, Sánchez reached the finals of a Euro Tour tournament for the first time at the French Open . In the last sixteen he was eliminated by Shane van Boening . At the EM 2010 , Sánchez reached the quarter-finals in 10-Ball . In the 8-ball semifinals he was eliminated from the later European champion Konstantin Stepanow and thus won the bronze medal. At the German Open 2010 , Sánchez reached the quarter-finals, but lost them 7: 8 to Raj Hundal . In November 2010 he became Junior World Champion with an 11: 6 win in the final against Jesse Engel .
At the EM 2011 , Sánchez reached the semi-finals in 8-Ball, which he lost 6: 9 to Mario He . In May 2011 he made it into the final round of a men's world championship for the first time at the 10-ball world championship. In the round of the last 64 he was defeated by the Englishman Karl Boyes 3: 9. At the 9-Ball World Cup 2011, however, he was eliminated in the preliminary round. In April 2013, Sánchez won the bronze medal in the 10-ball at the European Championships after he was eliminated by the eventual European Champion Mateusz Śniegocki . In the 14/1 endless he lost in the semifinals to his compatriot David Alcaide . At the Treviso Open 2014 , Sánchez won a Euro Tour medal for the first time after losing 8: 9 to Niels Feijen in the semi-finals . In April 2015 he reached the semi-finals of the Portugal Open and was defeated there by the eventual tournament winner Mateusz Śniegocki 8: 9. At the 9-Ball World Championship in 2015 , he was eliminated in the preliminary round after losing to Yukio Akakariyama and Waleed Majid .
At the EM 2016 he made it into the final for the first time in 8-ball. After defeating Kristoffer Mindrebøe , Karol Skowerski and Denis Grabe , among others , he was defeated there by the Ukrainian Witalij Pazura 7: 8. He also reached the final in the subsequent 9-ball competition, in which he was European champion with a 9: 3 win against the German Joshua Filler . In August 2016 he made it to the finals of the 9-ball world championship for the first time. There he reached the round of 32 with an 11: 8 win against Hamzaa Saeed Ali , in which he was eliminated with 6:11 against eventual world champion Albin Ouschan . At the China Open 2016 he reached the round of 16. In October 2016 he finished third at the Dutch Open after a semi-final defeat by David Alcaide.
team
Sánchez has taken part in the World Cup of Pool twice so far . In 2010 he reached the round of 16 with David Alcaide , where they were defeated 4-8 by the Filipinos Ronato Alcano and Dennis Orcollo . In 2015 , he and Francisco Díaz-Pizarro formed the Spanish team that was eliminated in the first round against the Czech Republic ( Roman Hybler and Michal Gavenčiak ).
In 2010 , Sánchez was part of the Spanish team that was eliminated in the preliminary round of the Team World Cup . In 2012 he became European champion with the Spanish national team , and in 2014 vice-European champion.
successes
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Spanish 9-ball champion: | 2008 |
Spanish 8-ball champion: | 2009 |
Spanish Cup Champion: | 2009 |
Junior World Champion : | 2010 |
9-ball European champions : | 2016 |
Spanish Snooker Championship : | 2018, 2019 |
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European Champion : | 2012 |
Web links
- Francisco Sánchez on azbilliards.com
- Francisco Sánchez on kozoom.com
- Francisco Sánchez on the European Pocket Billiard Federation website
swell
- ^ Thomas Overbeck : 9-ball titles for Khodjaeva, Larsson and Sanchez-Ruiz. In: europeanpocketbilliardfederation.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, April 12, 2016, accessed April 13, 2016 .
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SURNAME | Sánchez Ruíz, Francisco |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sanchez, Francisco |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | spanish pool player |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1991 |