Hossein Vafaei

[Ab-Gosht]

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

Winner: £85,000
Runner-up: £35,000
Semi-final: £21,000

[Ab-Gosht]

vafaei faces williams in semi former world nr1 and twice world champion! Live on eurosport in entire europe i think

[Ab-Gosht]

live right now vafaei vs mark williams

[Ab-Gosht]

he's out of gas after so many icnredible wins in a few days only

[Irannn]

Vafaei beat his Egyptian opponent 10-1 in first round of World Championship qualifier and with this he secured his place for the next year World Snooker Tour. and since Soheil Vahedi also won the world amateur championship recently, we will have two players in the professional tour for the next season.

Vafaei has to win two more matches to make history and qualifies for the main draw for the very first time.

[Ab-Gosht]

huge huge game on right now vafaei vs ford!

[Irannn]

Vafaei lost 8-6 to Ford and got eliminated from the World Championship, thsi is the end of the season for him

that was pity he was leading most of the match but all of a sudden started to miss easy shots in last frames. I think he is not used to play long matches like this, he was tired mentally.

[Ab-Gosht]

lost 10-8. unreal heartbreak so close to promise land! He played awesome all in all but missed one unreal crcuial last pink that cost him the game

[diz]

Iran’s Hossein Vafaei makes history with Snooker Shoot Out victory

Vafaei beat three-time world champion Mark Williams in the final.

Hossein Vafaei became the first Iranian player to win a ranking title with an impressive victory over Mark Williams in the final of the Snooker Shoot Out.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-b1999118.html

[diz]

What a grounded and sincere young man. Great interview describing his difficult road with visa issues and the recent passing of his grandmother.

[Medzdidz]

Brilliant news , seems like a very humble and mature man and he is from Abadan too so 🙂

[Medzdidz]

He qualified for the World Championships today with a 10-9 win. Only the top 16 World ranked players qualify automatically so a good achievement already here.

[diz]

He qualified for the World Championships today with a 10-9 win. Only the top 16 World ranked players qualify automatically so a good achievement already here.

Wow, great news and congrats to him!

[Medzdidz]

Soheil Vahedi was knocked out in one of the earlier qualifying rounds so he didn’t make it to the main draw.
Edit - Vafaei is the first Iranian player to ever participate in the final stages of the World Championship.
https://wst.tv/irans-vafaei-earns-crucible-debut/


“I’m so happy I have made my people proud,” said Vafaei. “I was so nervous today, all of my body was shaking. I was eating a lot of chocolate to try to calm myself down but it wasn’t working! I forgot how to hold the cue. I promise I will play better than that at the Crucible, I can’t wait to get there. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, I will try my best to be a people’s champion.”

[diz]

Love this guy. So down to earth. But someone should let him know chocolate has caffeine and won’t help with his tremors!