Rouzi Maimaiti

{{Infobox snooker player

| name = Rouzi Maimaiti

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|7|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = Korla, Xinjiang, China

| Sport country = {{CHN}}

| Professional = 2014–2017

| High ranking = 92 (July–August 2015){{cite web|title=WORLD RANKINGS After 2015 Australian Goldfields Open|url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/rankings/|website=World Snooker|accessdate=2 August 2015|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150802140432/http://www.worldsnooker.com/rankings/|archivedate=2 August 2015}}{{cite web|title=WORLD RANKINGS After 2015 The Kaspersky Lab Riga Open|url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/rankings/|website=World Snooker|accessdate=30 August 2015|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150830191120/http://www.worldsnooker.com/rankings/|archivedate=30 August 2015}}

| Official maximums =

| Best finish = Last 32 (x1)

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| World champ =

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Rouzi Maimaiti ({{langx|ug|روزا‎ مەمەت|Roza Memet}}; {{zh|s=肉孜买买提}}; born 4 July 1983) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.

Career

Maimaiti has been a wildcard player at several ranking tournaments before turning professional.{{cite web|title=Rouzi Maimaiti|url=http://www.prosnookerblog.com/players/n-r/rouzi-maimaiti/|publisher=Pro Snooker Blog|accessdate=13 August 2014}} 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. Also in the 2012–13 season, Maimaiti entered into the new Asian Players Tour Championship events with little success, winning only one match The 2013/2014 events were much more successful and with eight wins in the four events Maimaiti was able to qualify for one of the four professional World Snooker Tour cards available through the Asian Tour of Merit money list. Maimaiti qualified for the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons{{cite web|title=2014/15 List Of Tour Players|url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/NewsArticles/0,,13165~3898174,00.html|publisher=World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association|work=worldsnooker.com|accessdate=13 August 2014|date=11 June 2014}} 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?season=2014&player=339 | title=Rouzi Maimaiti 2014/2015 | publisher=Snooker.org | accessdate=6 April 2015}}{{cite web | url=http://snooker.org/res/index.asp?template=26&season=2014 | title=Asian Order of Merit 2014/2015 | publisher=Snooker.org | accessdate=8 May 2015}} The following season he only played in the Haining Open, losing 4–1 to Tom Ford in the second round.{{cite web | url=http://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?player=339&season=2015 | title=Rouzi Maimaiti 2015/2016 | publisher=Snooker.org | accessdate=13 March 2016}} 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?cutoff=1&season=2016&template=25 | title=Historic Seedings After 2016 World Championship | publisher=Snooker.org | accessdate=25 September 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsa.org.cn/annoucement/2016-05-19/502366.html|title=CBSA Announcement on World Snooker Tour Nominations|work=cbsa.com|accessdate=25 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611101237/http://www.cbsa.org.cn/annoucement/2016-05-19/502366.html|archive-date=11 June 2016|url-status=dead}} He did not enter a single event in the 2016–17 season.{{cite web | url=http://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?player=339&season=2016| title=Rouzi Maimaiti 2016/2017| publisher=Snooker.org | accessdate=10 April 2017}}

Performance and rankings timeline

class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%;"

! 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.

| style="text-align:center;"|He was an amateur.

| style="text-align:center;"|

| style="text-align:center;"|New players don't have a ranking.

| style="text-align:center;"|118

| align="center" |Players qualified through CBSA China Tour nomination started the season without ranking points.

| style="text-align:center;"|

colspan="15" | Ranking tournaments

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

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

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

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

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

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

style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Players ChampionshipThe event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2012/2013)

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

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

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

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

colspan="15" | Non-ranking tournaments

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

| align="center" colspan="4" style="color:#555555;"| Tournament Not Held

| align="center" colspan="2" style="color:#555555;"| MR

| align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|4R

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

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

colspan="15" | Former ranking tournaments

style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Wuxi Classic

| align="center" colspan="2" style="color:#555555;"| Non Ranking

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

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

|colspan="10" align="center" style="color:#555555;"| Tournament Not Held

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

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

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

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

colspan="15" | Former non-ranking tournaments

style="background:#EFEFEF;" | Wuxi Classic

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

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

|align="center" colspan="3" style="color:#555555;"|Ranking

|colspan="10" align="center" style="color:#555555;"| Tournament Not Held

class="wikitable" style="font-size:78%;"

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.

References

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External links

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Category:1983 births

Category:Place of birth missing (living people)

Category:Living people

Category:Chinese snooker players

Category:Uyghur sportspeople

Category:Chinese people of Uyghur descent

Category:21st-century Chinese sportsmen