Ivan Sergeyevich Kakovsky

Ivan Kakowski
birthday	May 2, 1999
place of birth	St. Petersburg
nationality	Russia
Prize money	£ 1,125
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
More Achievements
Russian championship 5 × 1 × 0 ×

Iwan Sergejewitsch Kakowski ( Russian Иван Сергеевич Каковский ; English transcription: Ivan Kakovskii ; born  May 2, 1999 in Saint Petersburg ) is a Russian snooker player . He is the Russian record champion with five titles .

Career

In March 2012, Iwan Kakowski took part in the U21 European Championship for the first time and was eliminated in the group stage. In the same year he also took part in the European Championships and the Amateur World Championship for the first time . In May 2013 he became the Russian U16 champion in Saint Petersburg with a 3-1 final win against Andrei Solodski . In November he won the final against the Belarusian Uladsislau Kalinouski with the Fireballs Cup in his hometown for the first time an international junior tournament . A month later he took part in the Russian men's championship for the first time and reached the round of 16. In 2014 he won a tournament of the Russian Cup competition and the Russian U18 championship for the first time. A little later he succeeded in defending his title at the Fireballs Cup. At the 2014 Russian championship he made it into the final, defeating defending champion Kirill Lomakin 4-0 and becoming the youngest player to become Russian champions at the age of 15 years, 7 months and 9 days.

In 2015, after being surprisingly eliminated in the semifinals of the Russian U18 championship, Kakowski moved into the finals of the U21 European championship for the first time and lost in the round of 64 against Jamie Rhys Clarke . At the men's European Championship he was defeated in the round of 64 to the later European champion Michael Wild . In the same year he reached the round of 64 at the U21 World Cup and the sixteenth finals at the U18 World Cup, which was held for the first time in Saint Petersburg. At the subsequent Russian men's championship, he was the second player after Andrei Will to defend his title. In the final he defeated Barseg Petrosyan 4-0. In December 2015 he won the Russian Cup.

At the beginning of 2016, Kakowski became Russian U18 champion and reached the quarter-finals of the first edition of the U18 European Championship and the sixteenth-finals of the U21 European Championship . At the men's European championship , however, he was eliminated in the round of 96. In May he won the Russian championship in the snooker variant 6-Red-Snooker in the final against Anton Ryabinin . A little later he reached the semifinals of the 6 Red Snooker European Championship , where he lost 4-0 to Lukas Kleckers . At the U18 World Championships he made it to the round of 54 and at the U21 World Championship in the round of 32. In the 2016/17 season he was invited to the 6-Red World Championship for the first time , an invitation tournament as part of the Snooker Main Tour . At the tournament in Bangkok he defeated Sourav Kothari and Hesham Abdelhmed and reached the round of 32, in which he was defeated by the Belgian Luca Brecel with 1: 6. Two weeks later he became Russian champions for the third time in a row with a 4-1 final win over Sergei Bolotin . This made him the most successful player in the Russian championship. In November 2016, he made it into the final round for the first time in his fourth participation in the World Amateur Championship . In the round of the last 64, however, he had to admit defeat to Welsh Rhydian Richards 3: 4. A little later he won the Russian Cup for the second time.

At the beginning of 2017, Kakowski succeeded in defending his title in the Russian U18 championship and the Russian 6-red championship. In March he reached the semi-finals of the U18 European Championship , where he lost 4-2 to Amir Nardeia after a 2-1 lead . He then retired from the U21 European Championship and the Men's European Championship in the round of 64. After the Junior World Championships 2017 ( U18 and U21 ) had already ended for him in the preliminary round, he made it into the final of the Russian men's championship for the fourth time in the same year, but after three victories in previous years, Jegor Plischkin had to win 0 : Give 4 beaten. At the end of the year he came back to the last 64 at the Amateur World Cup and won the Russian Cup and a tournament in the Baltic Snooker League .

In January 2018, Kakowski became national champion in the U21 age group for the first time with a 5-4 final win against Mikhail Terechow . A month later he reached the last sixteen at the U21 European Championship . He then reached the men's round of 16 for the first time and was clearly defeated 0: 5 by ex-professional Darren Morgan . After winning the Moscow Mayor's Cup again in the final against Terekhov and the Russian Cup for the fourth time in a row, he made it into the round of 32 for the second time at the U21 World Cup in July 2018. In October 2018, he made it to the top of the Russian championship into the final for the fifth year in a row. In the final against Mikhail Terechov he prevailed 5-0 and won his fourth championship title. A little later he reached the last 48 at the Amateur World Championship and was eliminated in the preliminary round at the 6-Red World Championship .

At the 2019 European Championships, Kakowski reached the quarter-finals of the U21 juniors , which he lost to Aaron Hill , and the men's round of 16 , in which he was only narrowly defeated (3: 4) to the eventual European champion Kacper Filipiak . A little later he became national champion in the U21 juniors and in 6 red snooker. In May 2019 he took part in the Q School Main Tour qualifier for the first time , but won only one game in all of the three tournaments. At the U21 World Cup in 2019 he reached the round of 32. A little later he made it into the final at the Minsk Open, in which he lost 3-1 to Mikhail Terekhov, and reached the quarter-finals of the Ukrainian Independence Day Cup , in which he won the Ukrainian Wladyslaw Vyshnevskyi was defeated. In September he won the final against Māris Volajs (4: 2) for the second time a tournament of the Baltic Snooker League. A month later he moved into the final of the Russian championship for the sixth time in a row and became national champion for the fifth time with a 4-2 win over Yevgeny Sosykin . At the Amateur World Cup in 2019 , he reached the round of 64, in which he was only just 3: 4 defeated by eventual tournament winner Muhammad Asif . At the end of the year, he took part in two tournaments of the Challenge Tour 2019/20 and made it into the round of the last 32.

At the beginning of 2020, Kakowski reached the round of 76 at the WSF Open , in which he was defeated by the Englishman Ben Hancorn . After becoming Russian U21 champion for the third time, he made it to the round of 16 at the European U21 Championships and 6 Red Snooker and the last 32 for men . Because of numerous cancellations by professional players as a result of the COVID- 19 pandemic , more amateurs than usual were invited to qualify for the professional world championship in 2020 . One of the 34 amateurs nominated by the WPBSA World Association was Kakowski, who was the first to qualify for the World Cup. In the first qualifying round he met the Englishman Jimmy White , to whom he lost 3-6. A little later he returned to the Q School, but remained without a win in the three tournaments.

successes

Final participation

Result	year	competition	Final opponent	Final score
Amateur tournaments (selection)
winner	2014	Russian championship	Kirill Lomakin	4-0
winner	2015	Russian championship	Barseg Petrosian	4-0
winner	2016	Russian championship	Sergei Bolotin	4: 1
finalist	2017	Russian championship	Yegor Plischkin	0: 4
winner	2018	Russian championship	Mikhail Terekhov	5-0
winner	2019	Russian championship	Yevgeny Sosykin	4: 2

More Achievements

• Russian U16 champion: 2013
• Fireballs Cup: 2013, 2014
• Russian U18 champions: 2014, 2016, 2017
• Russian Cup: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Russian 6 Red Snooker Champion: 2016, 2017, 2019
• Baltic Snooker League : 2017/2, 2019/3
• Russian U21 champions: 2018, 2019, 2020
• Moscow Mayor's Cup: 2018
• Russian U21 champion (6-Red-Snooker): 2019

Web links

• Iwan Kakowski at snooker.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Каковский Иван Сергеевич. In: tournamentservice.net. Retrieved July 17, 2020 (Russian).  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Profile of Ivan Kakovskii on CueTracker (as of October 21, 2018)
3. ↑ Каковский Иван Сергеевич. In: llb.su. Retrieved July 2, 2017 (Russian).  
4. ^ Prize Money Won By Ivan Kakovskii In Season 2011–2012. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed July 2, 2017 .  
5. ↑ Prize Money Won By Ivan Kakovskii In Season 2012-2013. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed July 2, 2017 .  
6. ↑ Prize Money Won By Ivan Kakovskii In Season 2013-2014. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed July 2, 2017 .  
7. ↑ Prize Money Won By Ivan Kakovskii In Season 2014–2015. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed July 2, 2017 .  
8. ↑ Prize Money Won By Ivan Kakovskii In Season 2015-2016. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed July 2, 2017 .  
9. ↑ Kirill Rumjanzew: "Тёмные века" снукера в России. (No longer available online.) In: top-snooker.com. August 1, 2012, archived from the original on March 8, 2017 ; Retrieved July 2, 2017 (Russian).  
10. ^ Prize Money Won By Ivan Kakovskii In Season 2016-2017. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed July 2, 2017 .  
11. ↑ Prize Money Won By Ivan Kakovskii In Season 2017-2018. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed October 21, 2018 .  
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Prize Money Won By Ivan Kakovskii In Season 2018-2019. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed October 21, 2018 .  
13. ↑ ^{a b} Prize Money Won By Ivan Kakovskii In Season 2019-2020. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed July 17, 2020 .  
14. ↑ Wassja Dimitrenko: Иван Каковский защитил титул Чемпиона России по снукеру! In: homeofsnooker.ru. October 23, 2019, accessed July 17, 2020 (Russian).  
15. ↑ World Championship 2020: Updated WPBSA Qualifiers. In: wpbsa.com. WPBSA , July 9, 2020, accessed July 17, 2020 .  
16. ↑ Россиянин Каковский сыграет в квалификации ЧМ по снукеру. Первый соперник - легенда Джимми Уайт. In: eurosport.ru. Eurosport , July 10, 2020, accessed July 17, 2020 (Russian).  
17. ↑ Nadezhda Beljanskaja: Квалификация ЧМ 2020: Юлиан Бойко встретится с Тором Чуан Леоном, Иван Каковский - с Джаиммо см. In: snooker.by. July 10, 2020, accessed July 17, 2020 (Russian).