Soheil_Vahedi

Soheil Vahedi

Soheil Vahedi

Iranian snooker player

Soheil Vahedi (Persian: سهیل واحدی, born March 15, 1989) is an Iranian former professional snooker player.[2]

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Career

In 2009 Vahedi entered the World Amateur Under-21 Snooker Championships in his home country in Kish, Iran in which he reached the final, before he lost 9–8 Noppon Saengkham. Seven years following his disappointment in Kish, Vahedi made it to the final of the World Amateur Snooker Championship where he defeated Andrew Pagett 8–1 to win the 2016 IBSF World Snooker Championship, as a result he was offered a two-year card on the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons.[3][4] Vahedi came through the first event of the 2019 Q School by winning five matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons.

Performance and rankings timeline

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NH / Not Heldevent was not held
NR / Non-Ranking Eventevent is/was no longer a ranking event
R / Ranking Eventevent is/was a ranking event
MR / Minor-Ranking Eventevent is/was a minor-ranking event
  1. [N 1]
    It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season
  2. [N 2]
    He was an amateur
  3. [N 3]
    New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking
  4. [N 4]
    Players qualified through Q School started the season without ranking points
  5. [N 5]
    The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Final (2015/2016)
  6. [N 6]
    The event was called the Riga Open (2015/2016)

Career finals

Pro-am finals: 1

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Amateur finals: 3 (2 titles)

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References

  1. [1]
    "Soheil Vahedi". World Snooker Tour. Archived from the original on 22 September 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  2. [2]
    davidcaulfield (2016-11-29). "Soheil Vahedi Wins World Amateur Championship". SnookerHQ. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
  3. [3]
    "Clear win for Soheil to claim Tour Ticket". International Billiards and Snooker Federation. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  4. [4]
    "Iran's Soheil Vahedi wins IBSF World Snooker". Tehran Times. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  5. [5]
    "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
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