Rouzi Maimaiti Explained

Rouzi Maimaiti
Birth Date:4 July 1983
Birth Place:Korla, Xinjiang, China
Professional:2014–2017
High Ranking:92 (July–August 2015)[1] [2]
Best Finish:Last 32 (x1)

Rouzi Maimaiti (Uighur; Uyghur: روزا‎ مەمەت|Roza Memet; ; born 4 July 1983) is a Chinese professional snooker player.

Career

Maimaiti has been a wildcard player at several ranking tournaments before turning professional.[3] He lost the majority of the matches except a 5–1 over Dave Harold in the 2012 Wuxi Classic, before suffering a reverse to Mark Allen in the last 32 stage.[3] Also in the 2012–13 season, Maimaiti entered into the new Asian Players Tour Championship events with little success, winning only one match[3] The 2013/2014 events were much more successful and with eight wins in the four events[3] Maimaiti was able to qualify for one of the four professional World Snooker Tour cards available through the Asian Tour of Merit money list.[3] Maimaiti qualified for the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons[3] [4] and then re-qualified for the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons.

Professional

Rouzi only played in the three Asian Tour 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.[5] [6] The following season he only played in the Haining Open, losing 4–1 to Tom Ford in the second round.[7] 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.[8] [9] He did not enter a single event in the 2016–17 season.[10]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament2010/
11
2013/
14
2014/
15
2015/
16
2016/
17
2017/
18
2018/
19
2019/
20
Ranking[11] [12] [13] [14] 118[15]
Ranking tournaments
World OpenAWRAANot heldAAAA
Players Championship[16] DNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQ
China OpenWRAAAAAAAAA
Non-ranking tournaments
Haining OpenTournament Not HeldMR4R2R2R1R
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi ClassicNon Ranking1RAATournament Not Held
Shanghai MastersWRWRAAAAAANon-Ranking
Former non-ranking tournaments
Wuxi ClassicA1RRankingTournament Not Held
Performance Table Legend
LQlost in the qualifying draw
  1. R
lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)
QFlost in the quarter-finals
SFlost in the semi-finalsFlost in the finalWwon the tournament
DNQdid not qualify for the tournamentAdid not participate in the tournamentWDwithdrew from the tournament
NH / Not Held means an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Event means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: WORLD RANKINGS After 2015 Australian Goldfields Open. World Snooker. 2 August 2015. bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20150802140432/http://www.worldsnooker.com/rankings/. 2 August 2015.
  2. Web site: WORLD RANKINGS After 2015 The Kaspersky Lab Riga Open. World Snooker. 30 August 2015. bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20150830191120/http://www.worldsnooker.com/rankings/. 30 August 2015.
  3. Web site: Rouzi Maimaiti. Pro Snooker Blog. 13 August 2014.
  4. Web site: 2014/15 List Of Tour Players. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. worldsnooker.com. 13 August 2014. 11 June 2014.
  5. Web site: Rouzi Maimaiti 2014/2015 . Snooker.org . 6 April 2015.
  6. Web site: Asian Order of Merit 2014/2015 . Snooker.org . 8 May 2015.
  7. Web site: Rouzi Maimaiti 2015/2016 . Snooker.org . 13 March 2016.
  8. Web site: Historic Seedings After 2016 World Championship . Snooker.org . 25 September 2016.
  9. Web site: CBSA Announcement on World Snooker Tour Nominations. cbsa.com. 25 September 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160611101237/http://www.cbsa.org.cn/annoucement/2016-05-19/502366.html. 11 June 2016. dead.
  10. Web site: Rouzi Maimaiti 2016/2017. Snooker.org . 10 April 2017.
  11. Web site: Ranking History. Snooker.org. 6 February 2011.
  12. It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  13. He was an amateur.
  14. New players don't have a ranking.
  15. Players qualified through CBSA China Tour nomination started the season without ranking points.
  16. The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2012/2013)