Kacper Filipiak

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Kacper Filipiak
Kacper Filipiak PHC 2015-2.jpg
Filipiak at the 2015 Paul Hunter Classic
Born (1995-11-19) 19 November 1995 (age 28)
Warsaw, Masovian, Poland
Sport countryFlag of Poland.svg  Poland
NicknameThe Kid [1]
Professional2011/2012, 2019–2021
Highest ranking 76 (September 2020)
Best ranking finishLast 32 (x1)

Kacper Filipiak (born 19 November 1995) is a Polish former professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2011 after winning the European Under-21 Championship, and became Poland's first player on snooker's professional Main Tour. [2] He was the first Polish player to make a 147 in competitive competition, doing so in a PLS Top 16 match against Marcin Nitschke. [3] He was also a professional player from 2019 to 2021, having qualified by winning the 2019 EBSA European Snooker Championship.

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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] He played in three of the six European Tour events in the 2014/2015 season with his only win coming at the Gdynia Open, where he beat Gerard Greene 4–2, before falling 4–0 to Oliver Lines in the second round. He once again had an unsuccessful Q School. [12] Filipiak lost in the quarter-finals of the 2015 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship 6–5 to Josh Boileau. [13]

After beating Gerard Greene 4–3 at the Gdynia Open, Filipiak made his televised debut in the second round against Andrew Higginson and lost 4–3. [14] He won the 2019 EBSA European Snooker Championship. He therefore gained a two-year professional tour card to return to the tour for the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 seasons.

At the end of the 2020/2021 season, Filipiak was ranked 86th, and therefore lost his place on the tour. [15]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2010/
11 		2011/
12 		2012/
13 		2013/
14 		2014/
15 		2015/
16 		2017/
18 		2019/
20 		2020/
21
Ranking [16] [nb 1] [nb 2] [nb 3] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 3] 76
Ranking tournaments
European Masters Tournament Not HeldALQ 1R
English Open Tournament Not HeldA 1R 1R
Championship League Non-Ranking Event RR
Northern Ireland Open Tournament Not HeldA 2R 1R
UK Championship ALQAAAAA 1R 1R
Scottish Open Not HeldMRNot HeldA 2R 1R
World Grand Prix Tournament Not HeldNRDNQDNQDNQ
German Masters ALQAAAAALQ 1R
Shoot-Out Non-Ranking EventA 1R WD
Welsh Open AAAAAAA 1R 1R
Players Championship [nb 4] DNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQ
Gibraltar Open Tournament Not HeldMRA 1R 1R
WST Pro Series Tournament Not Held RR
Tour Championship Tournament Not HeldDNQDNQ
World Championship ALQAAAALQLQLQ
Non-ranking tournaments
Six-red World Championship AAAA 2R AAANH
Former ranking tournaments
Australian Goldfields Open NHLQAAATournament Not Held
Shanghai Masters ALQAAAAANRNH
Paul Hunter Classic Minor-Ranking Event 1R NRNH
China Open ALQAAAAANot Held
Riga Masters [nb 5] Tournament Not HeldMinor-Rank.A 1R NH
International Championship Not HeldAAAAALQNH
China Championship Tournament Not HeldALQNH
World Open AAANot HeldAALQNH
Performance Table Legend
LQlost in the qualifying draw#Rlost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)		QFlost in the quarter-finals
SFlost in the semi-finalsFlost in the finalWwon the tournament
DNQdid not qualify for the tournamentAdid not participate in the tournamentWDwithdrew from the tournament
NH / Not Heldmeans an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
  1. ↑ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 He was an amateur.
  3. 1 2 New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  4. ↑ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Finals (2010/2011–2015/2016)
  5. ↑ The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)

Career finals

Amateur finals: 8 (4 titles)

OutcomeNo.YearChampionshipOpponent in the finalScore
Winner1.2011 EBSA European Under-21 Snooker Championships Flag of Scotland.svg Michael Leslie 6–3
Winner2.2014 Polish Amateur Championship Flag of Poland.svg Michał Zieliński7–2
Runner-up1.2014IBSF World 6-Reds Snooker Championship Flag of India.svg Pankaj Advani 1–6
Runner-up2.2016 Polish Amateur Championship Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Tomasz Skalski5–6
Runner-up3.2017 Polish Amateur Championship (2) Flag of Poland.svg Mateusz Baranowski5–6
Runner-up4.2018 Polish Amateur Championship (3) Flag of Poland.svg Mateusz Baranowski4–6
Winner3.2019 Polish Amateur Championship (2) Flag of Poland.svg Paweł Rogoza6–3
Winner4.2019 EBSA European Snooker Championship Flag of England.svg David Lilley 5–4

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  14. ↑ "Kacper Filipiak 2015/2016". Snooker.org. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
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