Rouzi Maimaiti ( ug, روزا مەمەت, Roza Memet; ; born 4 July 1983) is a
Chinese
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professional
snooker
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player.
Career
Maimaiti has been a wildcard player at several ranking tournaments before turning professional.
He lost the majority of the matches except a 5–1 over
Dave Harold
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in the
2012 Wuxi Classic
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, before suffering a reverse to
Mark Allen
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in the last 32 stage.
Also in the
2012–13 season, Maimaiti entered into the new Asian
Players Tour Championship
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events with little success, winning only one match
The
2013/2014 events were much more successful and with eight wins in the four events
Maimaiti was able to qualify for one of the four professional
World Snooker Tour
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cards available through the Asian Tour of Merit money list.
Maimaiti qualified for the
2014–15 and
2015–16 seasons
and then re-qualified for the
2016–17 and
2017–18 seasons.
Professional
Rouzi only played in the three
Asian Tour
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events during the
2014–15 season. He won four matches to reach the quarter-finals of the
Xuzhou Open, where he lost 4–1 to
Joe Perry which saw him finish 25th on the Order of Merit. The
following season he only played in the
Haining Open
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History
The tournament started in 2014 and was staged at the Haining Sports Center in Haining, Zhejiang, China. The ...
, losing 4–1 to
Tom Ford
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in the second round. Despite dropping off the tour having finished a lowly 115th in the world, he received the Chinese nomination for a new two-year tour place.
He did not enter a single event in the
2016–17 season.
Performance and rankings timeline
References
External links
Rouzi Maimaitiat ''worldsnooker.com''
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1983 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese snooker players
Uyghur sportspeople
Chinese people of Uyghur descent
21st-century Chinese people