Rouzi Maimaiti
Chinese professional snooker player
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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
| Tournament | 2010/ 11 |
2011/ 12 |
2012/ 13 |
2013/ 14 |
2014/ 15 |
2015/ 16 |
2016/ 17 |
2017/ 18 |
2018/ 19 |
2019/ 20 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking[11][nb 1] | [nb 2] | [nb 2] | [nb 2] | [nb 2] | [nb 3] | 118 | [nb 4] | [nb 2] | [nb 2] | [nb 2] | |||||
| Ranking tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| World Open | A | WR | A | A | Not held | A | A | A | A | ||||||
| Players Championship[nb 5] | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||
| China Open | WR | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | |||||
| Non-ranking tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Haining Open | Tournament Not Held | MR | 4R | 2R | 2R | 1R | |||||||||
| Former ranking tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Wuxi Classic | Non Ranking | 1R | A | A | Tournament Not Held | ||||||||||
| Shanghai Masters | WR | WR | A | A | A | A | A | A | Non-Ranking | ||||||
| Former non-ranking tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Wuxi Classic | A | 1R | Ranking | Tournament Not Held | |||||||||||
| 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 a ranking event. | |||
| MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. | |||
- It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
- He was an amateur.
- New players don't have a ranking.
- Players qualified through CBSA China Tour nomination started the season without ranking points.
- The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2012/2013)
