Igor Figueiredo

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Almeida and the second or paternal family name is Figueiredo.
Igor Figueiredo
Born (1977-10-11) October 11, 1977
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sport country  Brazil
Nickname T-Igor[1]
Professional 2010–2012, 2013–
Highest ranking 65 (September 2010)[2]
Current ranking 126 (as of 2 May 2016)
Career winnings £38,425[3]
Highest break 137 (2014 UK Championship)
Century breaks 5[3]
Best ranking finish Last 48 (2015 World Championship)

Igor Almeida Figueiredo (born October 11, 1977) is a Brazilian professional snooker player.

Career

Amateur career

Prior to entering the PIOS tour in 2009, Figueiredo had only played on 10-foot tables in his home country. Despite this, his results were impressive, allowing him to finish 12th on the year-end ranking list.[4] Figueiredo's most significant achievement however came at the 2009 IBSF World Championship, as he enjoyed a spectacular run to the final. Although he lost 10-8 to experienced Alfie Burden, he was given a wild card by WPBSA onto the main tour for 2010/2011.[1]

2010-2012

In his first professional tournament, the minor-ranking PTC Event 1, Figueiredo won two matches to reach the last 32. He went further in the Event 3, losing a decider to Barry Hawkins in the last 16. At the Shanghai Masters, Figueiredo beat Jamie O'Neill 5–4 and David Gilbert 5–4 (despite being docked a frame for forgetting his cue).[5] His run ended in the last 64 losing 5–1 to Fergal O'Brien. He also qualified for the televised stages of the World Open, losing 0–3 in the third round to Mark Williams. From this point however, Figueiredo started to struggle for form, losing all his opening matches at the major tournaments. Thanks to his strong performances at the PTC events he was able to retain his tour card for the 2011/12 season, despite finishing only 80th in the world rankings.

Due to the lack of sponsorship Figueiredo only entered qualifying for one ranking event of the next season, the 2012 World Championship, where he won three matches, before losing 7–10 to Joe Jogia.[6] He also participated in the inaugural Brazil Masters and defeated world number 17 Jamie Cope in the first round 4–2,[7] but then lost by the same scoreline to Graeme Dott in the quarter-finals.[6]

2013-present

In 2013, Figueiredo returned to Main Tour after receiving the nomination from the Americas region, but the lack of sponsorship again forced him to sit out the whole season until the 2014 World Championship.[8] He repeated his last 64 run of 2012 as he beat Adam Duffy 10–4 in the first qualifying round, and followed it with 10–8 win against Gerard Greene, but suffered a heavy 10–1 defeat to Martin Gould in the penultimate round.[9] Figueiredo also took part in the snooker tournament at the 2013 World Games, where he lost 3–2 to Dechawat Poomjaeng in the bronze medal match.[9]

Figueiredo finally managed to gain sponsorship before the 2014 UK Championship, and was able to enter all the remaining tournaments of the 2014/2015 season. At the UK Championship he defeated Fergal O'Brien 6–4 to reach the last 64, where he lost 6–4 to Anthony McGill. He repeated this result at the German Masters qualifying by beating Kurt Maflin 5–3, before Stuart Bingham defeated him 5–1. Figueiredo went on to lose his opening match at each of the next three ranking tournaments, but enjoyed another strong run at the World Championship qualifiers. He started with a 10–3 win against veteran Nigel Bond, and followed that with a dramatic 10–9 victory over Rod Lawler, in a match where Figueiredo led 8–2 and 9–5, to reach the final round, where he lost 10–4 to Robin Hull.[10]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2010/
11 		2011/
12 		2013/
14 		2014/
15
Ranking[11][nb 1] UR[nb 2] 75[12] UR[nb 2] 109
Ranking tournaments
Shanghai Masters LQ A A A
UK Championship LQ A A 2R
German Masters LQ A A LQ
Welsh Open LQ A A 1R
Indian Open Not Held A LQ
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 3] DNQ A A DNQ
China Open LQ A A LQ
World Championship LQ LQ LQ LQ
Non-ranking tournaments
Brazil Masters NH QF Not Held
Variant format tournaments
Six-red World Championship RR NH A A
Former ranking tournaments
World Open LQ A A NH
Performance Table Legend
LQ lost in the qualifying draw #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)		 QF lost in the quarter-finals
SF lost in the semi–finals F lost in the final W won the tournament
DNQ did not qualify for the tournament A did not participate in the tournament WD withdrew 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 now a ranking event
  1. ↑ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. 1 2 New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  3. ↑ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2011/2012)

References

  1. 1 2 "T-Igor, T-Igor, burning bright in Hyderabad". Global Snooker. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
  2. ↑ "World rankings after Shanghai Masters 2010" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 October 2010. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Career-total Statistics for Igor Figueiredo - Professional". CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "2009–10 PIOS Rankings". Global Snooker. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  5. ↑ "Better late than never for Igor". Foul4.com. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  6. 1 2 "Igor Figueiredo 2011/2012". Snooker.org. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  7. ↑ "Cope stunned at Brazil Masters". Eurosport. 16 September 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  8. ↑ "Tour Players 2013/2014" (PDF). World Snooker. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  9. 1 2 "Igor Figueiredo 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  10. ↑ "Igor Figueiredo 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  11. ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  12. ↑ "Rankings after PTC1 2011" (PDF). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 1 January 2013.

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