Kacper Filipiak

Kacper Filipiak
Born 19 November 1995
Warsaw, Poland
Sport country  Poland
Nickname Fili the kid[1]
Professional 2011/2012
Highest ranking 86 (May–July 2012)
Highest break 129 (2014 Q School - Event 2)
Century breaks 2[2]

Kacper Filipiak (born 19 November 1995) is a Polish former professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2011 after winning the European Under 21 Snooker Championship, and became Poland's first player on snooker's professional Main Tour.[3]

Career

Debut season

The 2011/2012 snooker season was Filipiak's first as a professional. At the age of 15 he became the youngest professional player.[4] Filipiak performed impressively at the Snooker World Cup, beating the likes of John Higgins, Stephen Maguire and Marco Fu in the singles matches; this led to him being tipped as a future world champion by Ronnie O'Sullivan.[5] However, his results in the ranking tournaments were disappointing: he entered five of the eight ranking events, but failed to win a single match, picking just four frames during the season.[6][7] Filipiak also had a poor set of results in the PTC events throughout the season, as he played in 10 of the 12 tournaments but did not win a match.[8] He finished the year ranked world number 86, out of the top 64 who retained their places for the 2012/2013 season.[9] Filipiak entered Q School in a bid to win a place for the upcoming season and played in all three events without picking up a single victory and dropped off the main snooker tour.[7]

Amateur years

Filipiak could only enter Players Tour Championship events the 2012/2013 season. He played in five, but could only qualify for the first round in three, losing his match once there in all of them.[10] He entered Q School in 2014 but was unable to win enough matches to earn a main tour card.[11]

Tournament wins

Amateur

Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Winner 1. 2011 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships Scotland Michael Leslie 6–3
Winner 2. 2014 Polish Amateur Championship Poland Michał Zieliński 7–2

References

  1. ↑ "Kacper Filipiak". 147.pl. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
  2. ↑ "Kacper Filipiak - Season 2012/2013". CueTracker - Snooker Database. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Kacper Takes Pole Position On Tour". Global Snooker. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
  4. ↑ "Kacper Filipiak". worldsnookerdata.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
  5. ↑ "15-year-old beats John Higgins". Eurosport.
  6. ↑ "Kacper Filipiak Player Profile". Snooker Database. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Kacper Filipiak 2011/2012". Snooker.org. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  8. ↑ "Order of Merit". WWW Snooker. 8 January 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
  9. ↑ "Official World Ranking List for the 2012/2012 Season" (PDF). Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  10. ↑ "Kacper Filipiak 2012/2013". Snooker.org. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  11. ↑ "Kacper Filipiak 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Retrieved 20 May 2014.

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