Bulcsú Révész (born 1 January 2007
) is a Hungarian professional
snooker
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player. He is the first ever professional snooker player from Hungary.
In February 2024 he won the 2024
WSF World Junior Championship, and with it earned a two-year card on the
World Snooker Tour
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starting with
2024–25 snooker season
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.
Career
In 2019, competing as a 12-year-old, Révész made the last-16 of the
six-red snooker
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Overview
In Six-red snooker, the traditional game of snooker ...
event at the
EBSA European Championships. He reached the quarter-finals of the EBSA European Snooker Open, where he lost out to the eventual winner
Kristján Helgason from Iceland. That year, he was runner-up at the under-16 European Championship and the under-16 World Championship, and finished third at the under-21 World Championship. He was defeated by
Liam Davies in the final of the 2022
World Open Under-16 Snooker Championships. The following year, he became European under-18 snooker champion, defeating
Liam Pullen in the final of the 2023 EBSA European Snooker Championships.
In November 2023, Révész competed in qualifying for the professional
2023 UK Championship. He lost 36 against professional
Hammad Miah. However, during the match he hit a total clearance 140 break which marked his highest competitive . He played in the single- professional tournament, the
2023 Snooker Shoot Out where he played
2005 World Snooker Championship
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winner
Shaun Murphy
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. Murphy won the match with the first
maximum break
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made under the format.
At the held in Albania in February 2024, Révész defeated China's
Gong Chenzhi 53 in the final. Winning the event awarded Révész a professional place on the
World Snooker Tour
The World Snooker Tour (WST) is the main professional snooker tour, consisting of about 128 players competing on a circuit of up to 28 tournaments each season. It is administered by World Snooker Ltd, the commercial arm of professional snooker, ...
from the
2024–25 snooker season
The 2024–25 snooker season was a professional snooker season featuring tournaments played between June 2024 and May 2025, including the professional World Snooker Tour, the second-tier Q Tour and featured events from World Women's Snooker an ...
. In doing so, he becomes the first professional Hungarian snooker player. In March 2024, he beat Latvian
Artemijs Žižins and Vladislav Gradinari of Moldova to win the European U18 championship.
In the first round of qualifying for the
2024 World Snooker Championship he defeated
Sean O'Sullivan 10-8, having comeback from 6-1 and 8-5 down. In the second round, he was defeated 10-8 by
James Cahill.
2024–25 season
He began his pro career at the
2024 Championship League in Leicester in June 2024, where he was defeated by World Championship finalist
Jak Jones
Jak Jones (born 29 July 1993) is a Welsh professional snooker player.
He is from Cwmbran, Torfaen, in South Wales. He became a professional in 2010 at the age of 16 after winning the 2010 European Under-19 Snooker Championship in Malta.
As a ...
in his round robin group. In July 2024, he recorded a 5-0 whitewash over experienced professional
David Grace in qualifying for the
2024 Xi'an Grand Prix. He reached the third round of the
2024 Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters with a 4-3 win over
Mark Davis. At the
2024 English Open in
Brentwood in September 2024 he reached the last-64 where he was defeated by
Stephen Maguire. At the
2024 British Open
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in
Cheltenham
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he recorded a 4-3 win over
Ali Carter. He came from 3-0 down to beat
Iulian Boiko 4-3 and whitewashed
Robbie Williams
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to reach the last-64 at the
2024 Northern Ireland Open
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. He recorded a win over
Baipat Siripaporn in qualifying for the
2025 German Masters.
Performance and rankings timeline
Career finals
Amateur finals: 8 (5 titles)
References
External links
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Living people
Hungarian snooker players
21st-century Hungarian sportsmen
2007 births