Eden Sharav

Eden Sharav
Born (1992-04-30) 30 April 1992
Mishmar Ayalon, Israel
Sport country  Scotland
 Israel (2017–present)
Professional 2015–
Highest ranking 82
Current ranking 104 (as of 26 June 2017)
Career winnings £36,825[1]
Highest break 133 (2016 Welsh Open][1]
Century breaks 13[1]
Best ranking finish Last 32 (2015 Bulgarian Open, 2017 Shoot-Out, 2017 China Open)

Eden Sharav (born 30 April 1992) is a Scottish-Israeli professional snooker player.

Career

Amateur

In 2011 Sharav won the Pontins "Star of the Future" event aged 19 beating fellow Scotsman Ross Muir 4–0 in the final in Prestatyn. A few months later as an amateur, Sharav reached the last 16 stage of his tournament debut in the Players Tour Championship, beating professionals, Liang Wenbo 4–0, Adam Duffy 4–1 and Gary Wilson 4–2, before a 4–0 defeat to Marcus Campbell.[2] He then entered Q School in 2014, with the aim to win a two-year professional tour card.[2] He was unsuccessful, losing in the final rounds of both events to Tian Pengfei and Michael Leslie.[2] He was though able to enter in all of the ranking tournaments as a top-up player for the 2014/2015 season due to his strong Q School performances. He qualified for the venue stages of the 2014 International Championship and 2015 Indian Open, losing in the first round of both.[3][4] He then entered Q School at the end of the season.[2]

Professional

In the first event of Q School, Sharav reached the final round and made breaks of 103 and 83 and against Adam Duffy and won 4–3, a win which gave Sharav to a two year card to the World Snooker Tour for the 2015/2016 season and 2016/2017 seasons.[5][2] He won a match as a professional at the first attempt by beating Andrew Milliard 5–3 in the 2015 Australian Goldfields Open qualifiers. .[6] Sharav could not qualify for any ranking event in the 2015/2016 season outside of the UK Championship and Welsh Open for which he gained automatic entry. At the UK he came back from 5–2 behind against Alan McManus to level at 5–5. Sharav got the snooker he needed in the decider, but McManus potted the blue to win in a match that finished at 1:30am.[7] At the Welsh Open he lost 4–2 to Jack Lisowski in the first round.[6]

A 4–1 win over Sean O'Sullivan saw Sharav qualify for the 2016 Indian Open where he was defeated 4–0 by Stuart Carrington. He overcame Nigel Bond 6–3 to play in the International Championship and lost 6–3 to John Higgins in the first round. Sharav eliminated Oliver Lines 4–1 in the first round of both the Northern Ireland Open and the Welsh Open, but was then eliminated in the second round 4–0 by Yan Bingtao and 4–1 by Robert Milkins respectively.[8] Sharav qualified for the China Open by overcoming Jamie Jones 5–3 and whitewashed Ross Muir 5–0 in the first round, before being unable to pick up a frame in a 5–0 loss to Judd Trump.[9] Sharav finished the year outside the top 64 in the world rankings, but has secured a new tour card by taking the seventh spot out of eight on the one-year ranking list.[10]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2014/
15		 2015/
16		 2016/
17		 2017/
18
Ranking[11][nb 1] UR[nb 2] UR[nb 3] 113 83
Ranking tournaments
Riga Masters[nb 4] Minor-Ranking LQ 1R
China Championship Not Held NR LQ
Paul Hunter Classic Minor-Ranking A
Indian Open 1R NH 1R LQ
World Open Not Held LQ
European Masters Not Held LQ
English Open Not Held 1R
International Championship 1R LQ 1R
Northern Ireland Open Not Held 2R
UK Championship 1R 1R 1R
Scottish Open Not Held 1R
German Masters LQ LQ LQ
Shoot-Out Variant Format 3R
World Grand Prix NR DNQ DNQ
Welsh Open 1R 1R 2R
Gibraltar Open NH MR 2R
Players Championship[nb 5] DNQ DNQ DNQ
China Open LQ LQ 2R
World Championship LQ LQ LQ
Former ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic LQ Not Held
Australian Goldfields Open A LQ Not Held
Shanghai Masters LQ LQ LQ 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 a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
  1. ↑ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. ↑ He was an amateur.
  3. ↑ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  4. ↑ The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)
  5. ↑ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2011/2012–2012/2013)

Career finals

Amateur finals: 1 (1 title)

Outcome Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Winner 2011 Pontins Star of the Future Scotland Ross Muir 4–0

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Career-total Statistics for Eden Sharav - Professional". CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Eden Sharav". Pro Snooker Blog. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "International Championship (2014)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Indian Open (2015)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Quartet Earn Tour Cards". World Snooker. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Eden Sharav 2015/2016". Snooker.org.
  7. ↑ "Trump Eases Into Round Two". World Snooker. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Eden Sharav 2016/2017". Snooker.org. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  9. ↑ "Judd Trump and Shaun Murphy breeze through China Open second round in Beijing". Eurosport. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  10. ↑ "Rankings 2016/2017". Snooker.org. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  11. ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
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