Rouzi Maimaiti

Rouzi Maimaiti (Uyghur: روزا‎ مەمەت, romanized: Roza Memet; Chinese: 肉孜买买提; born 4 July 1983) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.

Rouzi Maimaiti

Born	(1983-07-04) 4 July 1983 (age 42) Korla, Xinjiang, China
Sport country	China
Professional	2014–2017
Highest ranking	92 (July–August 2015)[1][2]
Best ranking finish	Last 32 (x1)

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.

1. It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
2. He was an amateur.
3. New players don't have a ranking.
4. Players qualified through CBSA China Tour nomination started the season without ranking points.
5. The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2012/2013)