Hossein Vafaei

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Hossein Vafaei
birthday 14th September 1994 (age 25)
place of birth Abadan
nationality IranIran Iran
Nickname (s) The Persian Prince
professional since 2012
Prize money £ 288,412 (as of August 30, 2020)
Highest break 146 ( China Open 2019 , Q)
Century Breaks 42 (as of August 30, 2020)
World rankings
Highest WRL place 31 ( September – November 2019 )
Current WRL location 41 (as of August 17, 2020)
Best results
Ranked tournaments 3 × semi-finals
Other professional tournaments 1 × quarter-finals
Amateur tournaments u. a .: Amateur World Champion 2012
Medal table
Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 2017 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze

Hossein Vafaei Ayouri ( Persian حسین وفایی ایوری, DMG Ḥosayn Wafāyī Ayūrī ; * September 14, 1994 in Abadan ) is an Iranian snooker player . Vafaei won various amateur tournaments and became a professional player in 2012, but was unable to play any games until 2015 due to visa problems. Since then, Vafaei's form has gradually increased, so that he is now in the top 48 in the world.

Career

Beginnings as an amateur

Hossein Vafaei grew up in the neighborhood of a snooker club and discovered his passion for the sport of cues there. When he could no longer match the timing of his soccer training, he decided to go snooker. He learned the game without a professional coach. At the age of 14, Vafaei took part in the U21 Asian Cup in 2009 , but was eliminated from the group stage with three wins from five games. Later in the year he took part in the U21 World Amateur Championship held in the year and made it to the round of 16, in which he was defeated by Liu Chuang . A year later in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou and reached the round of 16 there. He also reached the last sixteen at the amateur world championship . In 2011 he was eliminated from the Asian Cup in the group stage, but reached the final of the U21 counterpart . There Cao Yupeng narrowly missed qualification for the Snooker Main Tour due to a 3-7 defeat against the Chinese Cao Yupeng . Nevertheless, in the professional season that followed, he received wildcards for the Shanghai Masters and the China Open , but lost both games.

In 2011 he finally managed to qualify for the professional tour when he defeated the Welshman Lee Walker 10: 9 in the final of the amateur world championship . At 17 years and 80 days he was the youngest title holder of this tournament. Shortly afterwards he also won the U21 Asian Cup when he defeated Zhang Anda 2: 6 in the final. Also in 2012 he reached the semi-finals of the main Asian Cup , in which he had to admit defeat to Aditya Mehta from India. A little later his professional career began.

First professional years with visa problems

Vafaei's first professional season was the 2012/13 season , when he was only able to take part in a few tournaments due to visa problems with the British authorities. After all, he got a residence permit for Ireland and was able to train in Navan with Irish snooker professionals such as Ken Doherty and Fergal O'Brien . Apart from that, he took part in two tournaments taking place in Asia, with the second Asian event of the Players Tour Championship reaching the round of 64 and the six-red snooker tournament 6-Red World Championship the round of 16. As a result, he was only able to place himself on rank 97 in the world rankings. In the next season , however, his visa problems continued and he only took part in the 6-Red World Championship , where he was also eliminated in the group stage. Since this tournament had no influence on the world rankings, he slipped on this to rank 130, which he missed the direct qualification for the next season from 64th place.

As early as 2013, Vafaei increasingly took part in amateur tournaments and reached the quarter-finals of the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games in both normal snooker and six-red snooker , narrowly missing out on a medal. He also took part in the World Games 2013 and lost his opening game in the " Snooker Men " competition . In 2014 he reached the final of the U21 World Cup , where he qualified again for the professional tour with an 8: 3 win over Josh Boileau . He also played the first maximum break in tournament history during the tournament. However, the start authorization was only valid for the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons , before the Vafaei World Association also granted start authorization for the upcoming 2014/15 season due to the previous visa problems .

But even in the 2014/15 season Vafaei could hardly play a game; it took until February 201 before he got an entry visa on the fifth attempt and was allowed to play in England for the first time. Previously, at the 6-Red World Championship, he had exceeded his result two years ago and reached the quarter-finals, in which he was eliminated by Dominic Dale . He played his first professional game on British soil as part of qualifying for the World Snooker Championship , but lost it 3:10 to Anthony McGill . In the world rankings he was therefore on rank 124, which again would not have been enough for a qualification for the next season if he had not already had the right to start.

First professional years under normal conditions

With the 2015/16 season , Vafaei's professional career began under normal conditions. Although he had to continue to live in Ireland, and this visa also expired after a year, he was able to play the qualifying tournaments in Great Britain. However, this season was marked by defeats in the beginning, even if he had started the season with a participation in the round of 32 or the first main round of the Australian Goldfields Open and then continued with a participation in the third of four qualifying rounds of the Shanghai Masters . In the further course of the season, however, he only won a game at the Gibraltar Open and in the qualification for the Snooker World Championship before being eliminated, in the first tournament even only thanks to the fact that his opponent Gerard Greene gave up without a fight . At the end of the season he was ranked 90th in the world rankings.

Although the next season was marked by defeats in the beginning, it was much better than the previous season. He reached, among other things, twice the round of the last 64 and once again with the round of the last 48 in the qualification for the snooker world championship the local final qualifying round. He also moved into the last sixteen at the Welsh Open and the quarterfinals at the Northern Ireland Open . However, he achieved his best result of the season at the China Open , when he reached the semifinals with a victory over Judd Trump and lost to Mark Williams there . As a result, he jumped to rank 59 on the world rankings, which allowed him to stay on the professional tour.

Shortly after the start of the 2017/18 season , Vafaei took part in the billiards competitions of the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 2017 . He reached the finals twice; he lost in the individual snooker competition against Zhao Xintong , but defeated the Qatar team with his Iranian teammates in the team competition . The professional season also had a positive course for Vafaei, in most of the tournaments he was eliminated in the round of the last 64 at the earliest, and he reached at least the second round twice. While he lost at the Indian Open in this round, he moved into the quarterfinals of the English Open and lost there against Kyren Wilson . As a result, he improved to 45th place on the world rankings.

Years in the top 40

In the 2018/19 season , Vafaei reached at least the round of 32 in almost half of all tournaments, and in three of these six cases he also survived this round. He was eliminated from the China Championship and the China Open , where he managed a 146 break, in the round of 16, whereas at the Welsh Open he only had to admit defeat in the semifinals. In this he lost, among other things after a victory over Mark Selby , the Australian Neil Robertson . On the world rankings he improved by five more places and was now ranked 40th.

The following season , however, was marked by defeats in the beginning, only five times he won his opening game. In each of these cases he gave up once without a fight or was eliminated in the round of the last 64 and had to admit defeat twice in the round of 32. His best result, however, was far more gratifying when he again reached the semi-finals of the China Championship and lost to Mark Williams in this .

successes

Final participation

output year competition Final opponent Result
Amateur tournaments
Second 2011 ACBS U21 Asian Snooker Championship China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Cao Yupeng 3: 7
winner 2011 IBSF World Snooker Championship WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Lee Walker 10: 9
winner 2012 ACBS U21 Asian Snooker Championship China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Anda 6: 2
winner 2014 IBSF U21 World Snooker Championship IrelandIreland Josh Boileau 8: 3
Second 2017 - Snooker Singles Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhao Xintong 2: 4
winner 2017 - Snooker team
with the Iran teamIranIran  		Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games QatarQatar Qatar 3-0

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personal data
SURNAME Vafaei, Hossein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vafaei Ayouri, Hossein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Abadan