Kacper Filipiak
| Kacper Filipiak | |
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| birthday | 19th November 1995 (age 24) |
| place of birth | Warsaw |
| nationality |
 Poland
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| professional | 2011/12, since 2019 |
| Prize money | £ 21,608 (as of August 30, 2020) |
| Highest break | 129 ( Q School 2014/2 ) |
| Century Breaks | 7 (as of August 30, 2020) |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | - |
| Ranking tournament victories | - |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
| World rankings | |
| Highest WRL place | 86 (May – July 2012) |
| Current WRL location | 101 (as of August 17, 2020) |
Kacper Filipiak (born November 19, 1995 in Warsaw ) is a Polish snooker player .
Career
Filipiak qualified for the Snooker Main Tour - 2011/12 season by winning the U-21 European Championship at the age of 15 . He became the youngest player of all time to qualify for the professional tour. Filipiak is now training at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester .
He performed well at the 2011 World Cup , where he won his duels against top players such as John Higgins , Stephen Maguire and Marco Fu .
In 2014 he made it into the final of the Polish Championship for the first time , defeating Michał Zieliński 7-2. A year later he became Polish U-21 champions with a 5-4 victory in the final against Mateusz Baranowski .
After he became Polish champion again in January 2019 against Paweł Rogoza, he reached the final of the European Championships , which he won 5-4 against the Englishman David Lilley . This qualified him for the Main Tour seasons 2019/20 and 2020/21 .
Web links
- Profile on worldsnooker.com ( Memento from February 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Kacper Filipiak in the snooker Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile of Kacper Filipiak on CueTracker (as of March 2, 2019)
- ↑ Kacper Filipiak: As a 15-year-old on the Main Tour. (No longer available online.) Sportal.de, June 3, 2011, archived from the original on September 2, 2011 ; accessed on February 26, 2016 .
- ↑ World Cup 2011: Big Guns Win, Kacper Continues To Shine. prosnookerblog.com, July 12, 2011, accessed February 26, 2016 .
- ^ Filipiak Claims European Championship in Israel. In: wpbsa.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , March 2, 2019, accessed March 2, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Filipiak, Kacper |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish snooker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |