Adam Stefanów

{{Infobox snooker player

| name = Adam Stefanów

| image = Adam Stefanow PHC 2018-1.jpg

| caption = Paul Hunter Classic 2018

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1994|3|22|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Nowa Sól, Lubuskie

| Sport country = {{POL}}

| Professional = 2018–2020

| High ranking = 88 (July–August 2019)

| Official maximums =

| Best finish =

| World champ =

}}

Adam Stefanów (born 22 March 1994 in Nowa Sól, Lubuskie) is a Polish former professional snooker player. Stefanów lives in Sheffield, England. He received an Invitational Tour Card after finishing runner-up in the 2018 WSF Championship. His two-year card started in the 2018/2019 season.{{Cite web |url=https://www.wpbsa.com/polands-stefanow-to-join-main-tour/ |title=Poland's Stefanów to Join Main Tour |website=WPBSA.com |publisher=World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association |date=17 May 2018}}

Career

Stefanów was high enough in the Q School Order of Merit after the 2016 Q School to be given a place in a number of ranking tournaments in the 2016/17 season as an amateur. He recorded wins against Ben Woollaston in the Riga Masters, James Cahill in the Scottish Open and Michael Wild in the 2017 Welsh Open.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/38899194 |title=Welsh Open 2017: Scores & schedule of play |work=BBC Sport |access-date=15 February 2017}}

He was largely unsuccessful at the 2017 Q School in comparison to the previous year and therefore wasn't able to compete in any professional tournaments of note in the 2017/18 season, however, he finished runner-up in the 2018 WSF Championship in March 2018 which saw him receive a place in both the qualifying draw in the 2018 World Championship and a full tour card for the following two seasons. He won his first round tie at 2018 World Championship qualifying 10–8 against Gary Wilson, before losing out 4–10 against Thepchaiya Un-Nooh.

His first full season on tour was relatively quiet, winning just two matches all season, one however of which was quite a notable 6-4 win against Shaun Murphy in qualifying for the China Open. Over in China in the venue stages he was defeated in the Last 64 1-6 by Andrew Higginson.

In the 2019/20 season he defeated former two-time ranking event winner Michael White 4-0 to qualify for the Riga Masters but was defeated 1-4 by Liam Highfield in Riga. His final professional win that season was a 4-1 win over Luca Brecel in the English Open.

He dropped off the tour at the end of the season. He entered the 2020 Q School to try and regain his tour card, but withdrew from each tournament before it began, possibly due to Covid-19 travel restrictions at the time and has since not entered any amateur or professional snooker tournament.

Performance and rankings timeline

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! Tournament

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Ranking{{cite web |title=Ranking History |url=http://www.snooker.org/rnk/history.asp |publisher=Snooker.org |accessdate=6 February 2011}}It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.

| align="center" |He was an amateur.

| align="center" |New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.

| align="center" |90

colspan="20" | Ranking tournaments

style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Riga Masters

|style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

|style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | International Championship

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | China Championship

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NR

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | English Open

|style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"| A

|style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | World Open

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Northern Ireland Open

|style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | UK Championship

|align="center" style="background:#afeeee;" | 1R

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="background:#afeeee;" | 1R

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Scottish Open

|align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|2R

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | European Masters

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | German Masters

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

style="background:#EFEFEF;"|World Grand Prix

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ

style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Welsh Open

|align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|2R

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R

style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Shoot-Out

|align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Players Championship

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ

style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Gibraltar Open

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Tour Championship

|align="center" colspan="2" style="color:#555555;"| Not Held

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|DNQ

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | World Championship

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

colspan="20" | Former ranking tournaments

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Shanghai Masters

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" colspan="2" style="color:#555555;"|Non-Rank.

style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Paul Hunter Classic

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

|align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NR

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Indian Open

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NH

style="background:#EFEFEF;"| China Open

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|LQ

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|A

|align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R

|align="center" style="color:#555555;"|NH

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bgcolor="#efefef"

! colspan="6"|Performance Table Legend

align="center" style="color:#555555;" width="30"|LQ

| lost in the qualifying draw

| align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|#R

| lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)

| align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF

| lost in the quarter-finals

align="center" style="background:yellow;"|SF

| lost in the semi-finals

| align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8;"|F

| lost in the final

| align="center" style="background:#00ff00;"|W

| won the tournament

align="center" style="color:#555555;" width="30"|DNQ

| did not qualify for the tournament

| align="center" style="color:#555555;" width="30"|A

| did not participate in the tournament

| align="center" style="color:#555555;" width="30"|WD

| withdrew from the tournament

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
style="text-align:center; color:#555555;" colspan="4"\|NH / Not Held	means an event was not held.
style="text-align:center; color:#555555;" colspan="4"\|NR / Non-Ranking Event	means an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
style="text-align:center; color:#555555;" colspan="4"\|R / Ranking Event	means an event is/was a ranking event.
style="text-align:center; color:#555555;" colspan="4"\|MR / Minor-Ranking Event	means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.