Saleh Mohammadi

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Saleh Mohammadi
birthday February 24, 1973
nationality AfghanistanAfghanistan Afghanistan
professional 1998/99
Prize money £ 1,019
Highest break 147 ( Asian Snooker Championship 2008 )
Century Breaks ?
World rankings
Highest WRL place -
Medal table
Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 0 × gold 0 × silver 3 × bronze
Asian Games 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze

Saleh Mohammadi (born February 24, 1973 ) is an Afghan snooker player who won the ACBS Asian Snooker Championship in 2013.

Career

Player career

As a teenager, Mohammadi emigrated to Pakistan due to the war in his home country , where he began to play snooker.

After losing in the 1994 final of the Pakistani Snooker Championship , he took part in the IBSF World Snooker Championship , where he was eliminated twice in the group stage. It wasn't until 1995 , when he played for the third time, that he survived the group stage and reached the round of 16, where he lost 5-1 to David Gray . In the same year he was invited to the Red and White Challenge , where he lost his opening game in the quarterfinals against David Roe . In the following two years he took part again in the amateur World Cup, but he was eliminated in the group stage or in his first match. It was not until the Amateur World Cup in 1998 that he survived the group stage and made it to the semifinals, where he lost to eventual winner Luke Simmonds .

At the beginning of the 1998/99 season he became a professional on the Snooker Main Tour , but he lost all his games, so that he lost his professional status again at the end of the season. In 1999 he became the Pakistani amateur champion.

The following year Mohammadi survived the group stage of an amateur world championship for the third time , but he lost in the first main round to the later semi-finalist Björn Haneveer . In 2000 he reached the round of 16 after surviving the group stage and beating the Icelander Jóhannes B. Jóhannesson , where he was defeated by the eventual finalist Luke Fisher . In 2001 he reached the semi-finals of the Asian Cup, which he lost to Jin Long . A year later he reached the first main round at the Amateur World Cup , in the same year he won bronze at the Asian Games with the Pakistani team in the disciplines "Snooker doubles" and "Snooker team".

At the amateur world championship in 2003 he survived the group stage undefeated and defeated in the final round Martin McCrudden , Issara Kachaiwong , Liang Wenbo and Mark Allen , so that he moved into the final. There he was defeated by the Indian Pankaj Advani with 6:11. A year later he reached the quarterfinals, but this time he lost to Mark Allen. In 2004 he won the Pakistani Snooker Championship for the second time, this time 6-2 against Naveen Perwani . At the Asian Snooker Championship he lost after defeating Pankaj Advani in the game for third place. Two years later he reached the second round, and in the same year the second round of the amateur world championship .

In 2008 Mohammadi went back to Afghanistan and also played for his home country. At the Asian Snooker Championship he played a maximum break in the third group game , then he was eliminated in the second round. At the amateur World Cup in the same year he reached the round of 32. Until the 2011 Amateur World Championship , Mohammadi did not reach the main round, where he moved into the round of 32, where he lost to Martin O'Donnell . In 2012 he reached the quarter-finals of the Asian Snooker Championship and the first main round of the 6-Red World Championship . He also received a wildcard for the 2013 World Open , but lost directly to Ian Burns .

At the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 2013 he won bronze in the men's snooker singles for Afghanistan. In the same year he won the Asian Snooker Championship , where he defeated the Syrian Omar al-Kojah 7-2 in the final. Until 2015 he was rarely able to overcome the group stage, this year he made it to the quarterfinals of the IBSF Senior World Snooker Championship . After a round of 16 defeat at the IBSF 6 Red Snooker World Championship 2017 against Darren Morgan , he won bronze in the team and in the individual at the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 2017 . At the IBSF Senior World Championship he lost in the quarterfinals to Alok Kumar , at the Asian Snooker Championship he reached the quarterfinals.

Career as a snooker trainer

In Afghanistan, Mohammadi founded a snooker club that became a training venue for several players. He has also formed an Afghan national snooker team.

successes

output year competition Final opponent Result
Amateur tournaments
Second 2003 IBSF World Snooker Championship IndiaIndia Pankaj Advani 6:11
winner 2005 Pakistani Snooker Championship PakistanPakistan Naveen Perwani 6: 2
winner 2013 ACBS Asian Snooker Championship SyriaSyria Omar al-Kojah 7: 2
Second 2018 IBSF Senior World Snooker Championship WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 0: 6

More Achievements

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ron Florax: Career Total Statistics For Saleh Mohammadi - Professional Results. Cuetracker.net, accessed on November 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Player Profile: Saleh Mohammed. Global Snooker Center, 2002, archived from the original on January 18, 2004 ; accessed on November 21, 2018 (English).
  3. ^ A b Saleh keen to develop snooker in Afghanistan. Gulf News , November 20, 2010, accessed November 21, 2018 .
  4. ^ Nabeel Hashmi: Snooker: Saleh Mohammad, a star lost to negligence. The Express Tribune , June 13, 2012, accessed November 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mohammadi, Saleh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mohammad, Saleh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1973