IBSF U21 World Snooker Championship 2014

U21 World Snooker Championship 2014
Venue:	Hotel Concorde, Fujairah , UAE
Opening:	May 10, 2014
Endgame:	May 18, 2014
Winner:	Hossein Vafaei
Finalist:	Josh Boileau
Highest Break:	147 ( Hossein Vafaei )
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The 2014 IBSF U21 World Snooker Championship was the 26th edition of the Junior World Snooker Championship hosted by the International Billiards & Snooker Federation . It took place from May 10th to 18th, 2014 in the Hotel Concorde in the Emirate of Fujairah in the west of the United Arab Emirates .

The world champion was the Iranian Hossein Vafaei Ayouri , who defeated the Irishman Josh Boileau 8: 3 in the final and thus qualified for the Main Tour seasons 2015/16 and 2016/17 . Vafaei also managed the first maximum break in the history of the U21 World Cup.

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The 78 participating players were divided into 16 groups of four or five players each, in which they competed against each other in round robin mode . The 16 group winners qualified directly for the elimination tournament of the last 32. Their opponents were the 16 winners of the preliminary round between the second and third placed in the group stage.

Round 1

The games between second and third in the group were played in best-of-7 mode .

game Player 1 Result Player 2 1 Chris Totten  4th1: 41  Ming Tung Chan 2 Nathawud Hompirom  14 : 14th  Stephen Bateman 3 Sascha Breuer  4th2: 42  Charlie Chafe 4th Ryan Thomerson  34 : 34th  Adem Gerwash 5 Amin Sanjaei  4th1: 41  David Cassidy 6th Jeff Jacobs  24 : 24th  Guilherme Paes 7th Mohammad Reza Pishvari  4th0: 40  Lukas Kleckers 8th Daniel O'Regan  4th2: 42  Yun Fung Tam 9 Gabriel Martins Campos  4th2: 42  Asutosh Padhy 10 Siyavosh Mozayani  14 : 14th  Patryk Masłowski 11 Karol Lelek  4th0: 40  Yan Bingtao 12 Saad Sarukah  4th0: 40  Yu Kiu Chang 13 Muhammad Haris Nadeem  4th2: 42  Kurt Brown 14th Lee Mein  24 : 24th  Daniel Dempsey 15th Sahil Nayyar  4th0: 40  Muhammad Faheem 16 Abdullah Al-Faylee  4th1: 41  Josh Boileau Top 32 to the final   Round 1 best of 9 frames Round of 16 best of 9 frames Quarterfinals Best of 11 frames Semi-final best of 13 frames Final Best of 15 frames                                         Hossein Vafaei Ayouri 5                 Ming Tung Chan 0     Hossein Vafaei 5     Tom Rees 1     Nathawud Hompirom 2   Tom Rees 5     Hossein Vafaei 6th     Ryan Thomerson 4th     Dylan Craig 5       Charlie Chafe 3     Dylan Craig 4th     Ryan Thomerson 5     Ryan Thomerson 5   Ishpreet Singh Chadha 4th     Hossein Vafaei 7th     Mateusz Baranowski 3     Mateusz Baranowski 5   David Cassidy 4th     Mateusz Baranowski 5     Alireza Rezaei 0     Jeff Jacobs 4th   Alireza Rezaei 5     Mateusz Baranowski 6th     Lukas Kleckers 2     Sam Thomas 0       Lukas Kleckers 5     Lukas Kleckers 5     Boonyarit Keattikun 3     Yun Fung Tam 1   Boonyarit Keattikun 5     Hossein Vafaei 8th     Josh Boileau 3   Sam Harvey 5   Asutosh Padhy 4th     Sam Harvey 4th     Luke Garland 5     Siyavosh Mozayani 2   Luke Garland 5     Luke Garland 5     Zhao Xintong 6th     Parakeet Chiewchan 3       Yan Bingtao 5     Yan Bingtao 2     Zhao Xintong 5     Yu Kiu Chang 0   Zhao Xintong 5     Zhao Xintong 6th     Josh Boileau 7th     Chen Zifan 4th   Kurt Brown 5     Kurt Brown 3     Lee Mein 5     Lee Mein 5   Hamza Akbar 4th     Lee Mein 0     Josh Boileau 6th     Muhammad Majid Ali 5       Muhammad Faheem 2     Muhammad Majid Ali 1     Josh Boileau 5     Josh Boileau 5   Dhvaj Haria 1   final Both players were in the final of a Junior World Championship for the first time. Hossein Vafaei took a 4-0 lead before Josh Boileau won his first frame. The Iranian then extended his lead over 6: 1 and 7: 2 and finally won 8: 3 in the 11th frame. Final: Best of 15 Frames Referee: Abdulhamid Abdulkarim Hotel Concorde,  Fujairah , UAE , May 18, 2014 Hossein Vafaei 8 : 3 Josh Boileau 108 : 13 (73), 130 : 0 (78), 66 : 10, 68 : 19, 34: 71 , 69 : 57, 54 : 9, 34: 76 , 64 : 15, 9: 100 (99), 80 : 21 78 Highest break 99 - Century breaks - 2 50+ breaks 1 Century breaks Hossein Vafaei 147, 139 Josh Boileau 127, 106 Sam Harvey 120, 117 Lukas Kleckers 120 Nathawud Hompirom 112 Mateusz Baranowski 112, 104 Zhao Xintong 104 Charlie Chafe 100

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1. ↑ IBSF Snooker Championships U21 - Al Fujairah / UAE 2014 - Knockout. In: ibsf.info. International Billiards & Snooker Federation, accessed February 18, 2018 . 
2. ↑ 2014 World Under-21 Championship - Men.Cuetracker.net, accessed February 18, 2018 . 

Web links

• Official website