Soheil Vahedi

Soheil Vahedi (Persian: سهیل واحدی, born March 15, 1989) is an Iranian former professional snooker player.^[2]

Soheil Vahedi

Born	(1989-03-15) 15 March 1989 (age 36) Tehran, Iran
Sport country	Iran
Nickname	The King of Persia[1]
Professional	2017–2021
Highest ranking	80 (August 2020)
Best ranking finish	Last 16 (x3)
Medal record Representing  Iran Mixed snooker World Games 2017 Wrocław Individual Men's snooker Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 2017 Ashgabat Team 2017 Ashgabat Six-red singles 2017 Ashgabat Singles

Career

In 2009 Vahedi entered the World Amateur Under-21 Snooker Championships in his home country in Kish, Iran in which he reached the final, before he lost 9–8 Noppon Saengkham. Seven years following his disappointment in Kish, Vahedi made it to the final of the World Amateur Snooker Championship where he defeated Andrew Pagett 8–1 to win the 2016 IBSF World Snooker Championship, as a result he was offered a two-year card on the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons.^[3][4] Vahedi came through the first event of the 2019 Q School by winning five matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons.

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament	2015/ 16	2017/ 18	2018/ 19	2019/ 20	2020/ 21	2021/ 22
Ranking[5][nb 1]	[nb 2]	[nb 3]	86	[nb 4]	80	[nb 2]
Ranking tournaments
Championship League	Non-Ranking Event				RR	RR
British Open	Tournament Not Held					1R
Northern Ireland Open	NH	1R	1R	2R	1R	LQ
English Open	NH	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R
UK Championship	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R
Scottish Open	NH	1R	2R	1R	1R	LQ
World Grand Prix	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Shoot Out	NR	1R	A	3R	1R	WD
German Masters	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ
Players Championship[nb 5]	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
European Masters	NH	WD	LQ	LQ	1R	1R
Welsh Open	A	2R	2R	4R	1R	1R
Turkish Masters	Tournament Not Held					LQ
Gibraltar Open	MR	3R	1R	2R	4R	4R
Tour Championship	Not Held		DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
World Championship	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ
Former ranking tournaments
Shanghai Masters	A	1R	Non-Ranking		Not Held
Indian Open	NH	1R	2R	Tournament Not Held
China Open	A	LQ	LQ	Tournament Not Held
Riga Masters[nb 6]	MR	LQ	LQ	WD	Not Held
International Championship	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	Not Held
China Championship	NH	LQ	LQ	LQ	Not Held
World Open	NH	LQ	LQ	LQ	Not Held
WST Pro Series	Tournament Not Held				RR	NH
Former non-ranking tournaments
Six-red World Championship	RR	RR	A	A	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				event was not held
NR / Non-Ranking Event				event is/was no longer a ranking event
R / Ranking Event				event is/was a ranking event
MR / Minor-Ranking Event				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. Players qualified through Q School started the season without ranking points
5. The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Final (2015/2016)
6. The event was called the Riga Open (2015/2016)

Career finals

Pro-am finals: 1

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	2017	Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (6-red)	Yan Bingtao	1–5

Amateur finals: 3 (2 titles)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	2009	World Amateur Under-21 Championship	Noppon Saengkham	8–9
Winner	1.	2015	Asian 6-Reds Championship	Ehsan Heydari Nezhad	7–4
Winner	2.	2016	World Amateur Championship	Andrew Pagett	8–1