Steve Mifsud

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Steve Mifsud
Steve Mifsud
birthday 25th August 1972 (age 48)
place of birth Australia
nationality AustraliaAustralia Australia
professional 1991–1995, 1998/99, 2003/04, 2007/08, 2014–2016, since 2019
Prize money £ 13,480 as of August 31, 2020
Highest break 129
Century Breaks 7 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Current WRL location 127 (as of August 17, 2020)

Steve Mifsud (born August 25, 1972 in Australia ) is an Australian snooker player of Maltese origin from Melbourne . He is the only Australian amateur world champion and one of the most successful players at national level with seven Australian championships . He was a member of the international professional tour for a total of nine years, from the 1990s to the 2010s .

Career

Steve Mifsud was already at the snooker table at the age of 7. At the age of 19, like many others, he took the opportunity when the professional tour was opened to all players to enroll in the major tournaments. In the 1991/92 season he usually only achieved individual victories, only the Classic stood out, in which he reached the round of 128. In the following year he even made it into the main tournament of the last 64 at the European Open and among the last 128 at the International Open. In 1994 he succeeded again at the Welsh Open . However, he only moved around 200th place in the world rankings and gave up his professional career for the time being. In 1997 he won the open Australian championship as an amateur and was in the final of the amateur championship a year later , which he lost to Shawn Budd . Then the two met again in the final of the Oceania Championship and Mifsud took the title. So he returned to the Main Tour , but after he never reached the 1998/99 season more than the second round, he withdrew after a year. In 2000 he won the Australian Open tournament for the second time and again lost the national championship against Budd. It was only in the third attempt in 2001 that he won his first national championship title and remained unbeaten in the championship for four years in a row, something that only Max Williams had previously achieved in the early 1970s. In 2003 he won the national title in snooker and billiards at the same time.

In 2002/03 he took part in the Challenge Tour to qualify for the professional tour. But twice the round of the last 32 in the 4 tournaments were not enough. In the late 2000s, Mifsud had also competed in the Amateur World Cup twice but hadn't gotten past the Round of 32. In another attempt at the 2002 World Cup in Cairo , however, he won the title after victories over Mohammed Shehab and Ding Junhui, among other things . In this way he again secured a place on the Main Tour of the 2003/04 season . He won his opening match five times this year, but never reached the third round. After a year he lost his professional status as number 115 in the ranking. Despite reaching the last sixteen, he was unsuccessful in the following Challenge Tour. He missed the Main Tour qualification over the Amateur World Championship in 2004 by a 6-11 defeat in the final against Mark Allen .

In the following two years he missed top placements in international amateur tournaments and lost his national championship title in 2005. But he won the open championship in 2006 with 8: 7 against Dene O'Kane for the third time. Although he did not finish at the top of the Oceania Championship in 2007, the Continental Association nominated him again for the Main Tour for the 2007/08 season . Once again the international professionals proved to be too strong and with only two games won, the professional tournaments were over after a year. In the next two he was eliminated from the national and international amateur tournaments, mostly prematurely, he won his next title in 2010 when he won both the open and the national Australian championship in one year. The fifth national title was followed by the sixth in 2011. He defeated Joe Minici, against whom he had lost the final at the Oceania Championship that year.

In 2011, a professional tournament on the fifth continent was revived with the Australian Goldfields Open . For the first tournament , Mifsud received a wild card. He lost to Dominic Dale 5-2 in the first round . In 2013 he received another wildcard for the tournament. In the wildcard round he lost 4-5 to Mike Dunn .

In 2013 he also won his 7th national title and closed with one title to the record champion Max Williams. By winning the subsequent OBSF Snookero Ocean Championship in 2014, he received a place on the Main Tour for the fifth time in his career, this time for two years for the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons, which he practically did not take advantage of. In the two years he only competed in the Paul Hunter Classic 2014 and lost his opening match against Thepchaiya Un-Nooh with 0: 4. However, he did not return the tour ticket and thus waived participation in amateur championships. It was not until 2017 that he played again in amateur tournaments and at the age of 45 reached the final of the national championship, the semi-finals at the Oceania Championship and the last sixteen at the Amateur World Cup.

Steve Mifsud's younger brother James is also a successful snooker player who became Australian champion in 2016.

successes

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  1. ↑ Profile of Steve Mifsud on CueTracker (as of March 18, 2018)
  2. ^ A b Steve Mifsud misses out on Main Tour , Times of Malta, July 3, 2002.
  3. ^ A b Steve Mifsud Awarded Life Membership , Australian Billiards & Snooker Council, October 14, 2016.
  4. ^ Mifsud Brothers Handed Wild Cards. World Snooker , June 24, 2011, archived from the original on June 16, 2012 ; accessed on March 18, 2018 .

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SURNAME Mifsud, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Australia