Serhiy Petrash

Serhiy Petrash
nation	Ukraine
birthday	June 8, 1978
place of birth	Soviet Union
Medal table
Free Pyramid European Cup 0 × 1 × 0 × Ukrainian Championship (DP) 0 × 1 × 0 × Ukrainian Snooker Championship 2 × 4 × 2 ×

Serhij Ihorowytsch Petrasch ( Ukrainian Сергій Ігорович Петраш , English transcription: Sergey Petrash ; born June 8, 1978 in the Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian billiards player from Kiev . He participated several times in world championships in Russian billiards and was twice Ukrainian champion in snooker (2008, 2015).

Career

Serhiy Petrasch started playing billiards at the age of 20 . He studied radio engineering and law and graduated as a lawyer in 2003 . Since many lawyers were being trained at that time and he therefore assessed his career prospects as low, he decided to concentrate on the sport of billiards and aimed at a professional career.

Russian billiards

Petrasch first attracted international attention in 2004 when he reached the final of the Caucasus Cup, in which, however, he was defeated 3: 7 by the Russian Iwa Artschwadse . A little later he was eliminated from the world championship in the first round against Emil Mudarissow . In 2005 he reached a quarter-finals for the first time in the European Cup. In the final tournament of the series he reached the round of 16 and lost clearly to Kirill Anishchenko (0: 5). At the European Championships he was in the top 16 for the first time in 2006, but had to admit defeat to the defending champion, his compatriot Jaroslaw Wynokur , 5-0 in the round . In November 2006 he achieved his first podium in the European Cup ; at the fifth tournament of the year in Russia he moved into the final and lost after a 4-3 lead with 4-7 against Jauhen Kurta . A little later the final tournament was followed by the first round against Jan Grigoryev . In 2007 he reached the quarter-finals at the European Cup final in Dnepropetrovsk , in which he was defeated by his compatriot Kostjantyn Kulyk .

After making the quarter-finals twice at the Buffalo Cup, Petrasch narrowly missed the final round at both the European Championships and the World Cup in 2009 and finished in 33rd place. At the World Cup, he lost the crucial preliminary round match against Jewhen Palamar after he had won his first World Cup against Uzbek Edward Chen . A little later followed a first round defeat against Sergei Schiljajew at the European Cup final . In 2010 Petrasch achieved the first medal placement at the Buffalo Cup with third place in the first tournament. At the final tournament of the series in December 2010, however, as before in the Ukrainian championship , he was eliminated in the second round.

At the beginning of 2011 there was another round of 16 at the national championship in the combined pyramid . At the first World Cup tournament , Petrasch came in 97th place a little later. In March 2011 he moved into the final of the Polesja Cup and lost 3: 6 to Pavlo Radionov . At the third world cup tournament of the year in Chișinău , he fought his way to the quarterfinals, in which he was defeated by the eventual tournament winner Artem Moisejenko 3: 6. In August 2011 he was Ukrainian runner-up in the dynamic pyramid , he lost in the final 6-1 to Jaroslaw Tarnovezkyj . At the Ukrainian Independence Cup in 2011 he reached the quarter-finals and was only barely defeated by the eventual tournament winner Artur Pivchenko ( 5-6 ). In November 2011 he retired in Kiev at the World Cup in the Free Pyramid , his third World Cup participation, without a win in the preliminary round.

In January 2012 Petrasch won a tournament of the Ukrainian Cup for the first time by beating Wadym Korjahin 7-6 in the final. In May he reached the Moscow Mayor's Cup after defeating Kanat Sydykow , Wadym Korjahin, Aljaksandr Kaszjukawez and Oleksandr Boiko , the semi-finals, in which he lost to eventual tournament winner Gleb Vashchenkov 4-6. A few days later he retired from the European Championships in the preliminary round. At the 2012 World Cup, he did not get beyond 33rd place in Sudak . In 2013 he won the final against Yevhen Novossad (5: 4) the championship of the Kiev Oblast and against Ihor Lytovchenko (6: 4) the Kiev Cup. At the end of the year he reached the quarter-finals of the final tournament of the Ukrainian Cup, in which he was defeated by the eventual tournament winner Bohdan Rybalko .

At the beginning of 2014 Petrasch won the second tournament in the Ukrainian Cup. In the following years he took part in fewer tournaments in Russian billiards. Nevertheless, he made it into the final for the third time in the national cup series in March 2016, but was followed by a 5-7 defeat against Pavlo Radionov.

snooker

In 2008 Petrasch took part in the Ukrainian championship for the first time in snooker . Immediately on his debut, he moved into the final with a semi-final win against defending champion Serhij Issajenko , to whom he had lost in the preliminary round, and became Ukrainian champion with a 3-1 win against Denys Waschtschuk . In 2009 he reached the final of the CIS Cup, in which he lost 3-2 to the Russian Anna Maschirina . In the same year he reached the semi-finals at the Kyiv Open in 6-red snooker , in which he lost to Issajenko. In September 2009 he moved into the final for the first time at a tournament of the Ukrainian Cup and lost again to Issajenko. At the end of the year he had to admit defeat at the national championship in the semifinals Ruslan Ostrowskyj 3-0.

In the following three years he always moved into the final of the Ukrainian championship and lost 4-0 to Alan Trigg . He had made it to at least the semi-finals five times in a row. In 2011 he also reached the quarter-finals of the Buffalo Kyiv Open, the semi-finals of the Ukraine Trophy and won the Sharpei Snooker Cup with a 4-3 final victory over Belarusian Mikita Strokin . After failing to take part in the national championship in 2013, he made it to the final for the fifth time in 2014, this time defeating record winner Serhiy Issajenko 5-0. A year later he became Ukrainian champions for the second time with a 5-3 win against Andrij Senyk . He had previously reached the semi-finals of the national 6 Red Snooker Championship in April 2015. In 2015, he came second twice in the cup series.

In early 2016 he won the national team championship together with Dmytro Ossypenko . A few weeks later Petrasch won a tournament of the Ukrainian Cup for the first time in the final against Ossypenko (3-0). After two more finals, in each of which he lost to Wladyslaw Vyshnevskyi , he won the final tournament of the series in October 2016 with a 3-2 win over Vyshnevskyi. In the same year he was defeated at the Ukrainian championship in the semifinals Andrij Senyk (1: 3) and in the 6-Red championship he lost in the semifinals against Serhiy Issajenko. At the Ukrainian Cup 2017 Petrasch reached the final once and was eliminated in the semifinals of the final tournament against Julian Boiko .

successes

Russian billiards

• Ukrainian Cup: 2012/1, 2014/1

snooker

• Ukrainian champion : 2008 , 2015
• Sharpei Snooker Cup: 2011
• Ukrainian team champion: 2016 (with Dmytro Ossypenko )
• Ukrainian Cup: 2016/3
• Ukrainian Cup Winner: 2016

Web links

• Serhij Petrasch on tournamentservice.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Петраш Сергей: Турниров. In: tournamentservice.net. Retrieved March 8, 2018 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Петраш Сергей Игоревич. In: billiard.net.ua. Federazija Sportywnoho Biljardu Ukraiiny , accessed March 8, 2018 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Петраш Сергей Игоревич. In: llb.su. Retrieved March 8, 2018 .  
4. ↑ Profile of Sergey Petrash at CueTracker (as of March 8, 2018)
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Сергей Петраш: «Посвящать свою жизнь можно только умному, интересному и глубокому занятию». In: billiardsport.ru. July 18, 2013, accessed March 8, 2018 (Russian).