Shailesh Jogia

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Shailesh Jogia
Joe Jogia PHC 2011-4.jpg
Born (1975-11-13) 13 November 1975 (age 49)
Sport countryFlag of England.svg  England
NicknameJoe [1]
Professional1994–2012
Highest ranking 44 (August–September and December 2011) [2] [3]
Best ranking finishLast 32 (x4)

Shailesh "Joe" Jogia (born 13 November 1975) is an English former professional snooker player.

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Career

Jogia reached the last 32 of four ranking events, the first two being the 2004 Grand Prix and British Open. [4] He won the English Open title in 1998. [4] His highest break in a ranking event is 137, in qualifying rounds of the 2009 Grand Prix, [5] although he has also made a 147 maximum in pro-am play. [6]

He dropped off the pro Main Tour after the 2006–07 season. In 2008–09 he topped the pro-am International Open Series to regain a place on the Main Tour, although this was a wildcard place as he was not a member of his national governing body at that time. [7]

He qualified for the last 32 of a ranking event for the first time in 6 years at the 2010 World Open, where he played Liu Song and lost 3–1.

Jogia made it to the main stage of the UK Championship for the first time in 2011 by beating Jamie Cope 6–3 in the final round of qualifying. He was drawn against world number 2, Mark Williams, and won two successive frames to tie the match at 4–4. Unfortunately, Jogia had a bad " kick " while well placed to win the next frame and would lose the match 6–4. [8] Jogia had a good season in the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship series as he played in all 12 of the events, reaching the semi-finals in the first event, where he lost 2–4 to Ronnie O'Sullivan. [9] He also had two last 16 finishes to be placed 28th on the PTC Order of Merit, just out of the top 24 who qualified for the PTC Finals. [10] Jogia only won one more match in qualifying after his UK Championship exploits and finished the season ranked world number 47. [11] [12]

On 30 May 2012, it was announced by World Snooker that Jogia had been suspended from playing on the tour because of unusual betting patterns on his match against Matthew Selt in the Snooker Shoot-Out, which was due to take place on 28 January 2012. [13] A high number of bets were placed on Jogia to lose the match, which he claimed was because of an injury to his knee and the assumption that he would be unable to play to an adequate standard. Jogia withdrew from the event the day before it started, but faced a formal hearing of the World Snooker Disciplinary Committee in July. At the hearing it was revealed that Jogia had been in repeated communication with two people who placed 19 bets on the match and that 11 of these bets had been placed before he sought medical attention regarding his knee injury. Jogia was banned from snooker until after the 2014 World Championship and fined £2,000 as a contribution to the cost of the investigation. [14]

On 7 January 2013, Jogia was removed from the snooker world rankings following ET 2012/13 – Event 6, [15] [16] after his WPBSA membership was terminated. [17]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 1994/
95
1995/
96
1996/
97
1997/
98
1998/
99
1999/
00
2000/
01
2001/
02
2002/
03
2003/
04
2004/
05
2005/
06
2006/
07
2007/
08
2009/
10
2010/
11
2011/
12
Ranking [nb 1] 257 167 [nb 2] [nb 1] [nb 2] [nb 1] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 2] [nb 1] 63 62 67 [nb 1] 70 49
Ranking tournaments
Australian Goldfields Open [nb 3] Non-RankingTournament Not HeldLQ
Shanghai Masters Tournament Not HeldLQLQLQLQ
UK Championship LQLQLQAAALQAAALQLQLQLQLQLQ 1R
German Masters [nb 4] NHLQLQANRTournament Not HeldLQLQ
Welsh Open LQLQLQAAALQAAALQLQLQLQLQLQLQ
World Open [nb 5] LQLQLQAAALQAAA 2R 1R LQLQLQ 1R LQ
Players Tour Championship Grand Final Tournament Not Held 1R DNQ
China Open [nb 6] Tournament Not HeldNRAALQANot HeldLQLQ WR LQLQLQLQ
World Championship LQLQLQLQLQLQLQLQALQLQLQLQLQLQLQLQ
Non-ranking tournaments
The Masters ALQLQLQALQLQLQLQLQALQLQLQLQAA
Shoot-Out Tournament Not Held 1R A
Former ranking tournaments
Asian Classic [nb 7] LQLQLQTournament Not Held
Thailand Masters [nb 8] LQLQLQAAALQANRTournament Not HeldNRTournament Not Held
Players Championship [nb 9] LQLQLQAAALQAAATournament Not Held
British Open LQLQLQAAALQAAA 2R Tournament Not Held
Irish Masters Non-Ranking EventAALQNHNRTournament Not Held
Malta Cup [nb 10] LQLQLQNHANot HeldAAALQLQLQNRTournament Not Held
Northern Ireland Trophy Tournament Not HeldNRLQLQTournament Not Held
Former non-ranking tournaments
Merseyside Professional Championship AAAA2RAAAAAATournament Not Held
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
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 New players don't have a ranking
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 He was an amateur
  3. The event was called the Australian Open (1994/1995–1995/1996) and the Australian Masters (1995/1996)
  4. The event was called the German Open (1995/1996–1997/1998)
  5. The event was called the Grand Prix (1994/1995–2000/2001, 2004/2005–2007/2008 and 2009/2010) and the LG Cup (2001/2002–2003/2004)
  6. The event was called the China International (1997/1998–1998/1999)
  7. The event was called the Dubai Classic (1994/1995) and the Thailand Classic (1995/1996)
  8. The event was called the Thailand Open (1994/1995–1996/1997)
  9. The event was called the International Open (1994/1995–1996/1997) and the Scottish Open (1997/1998–2002/2003)
  10. The event was called the European Open (1994/1995–1996/1997 and 2001/2002–2003/2004) and the Irish Open (1998/1999)

References

  1. "Shailesh Jogia". WPBSA . Archived from the original on 6 December 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  2. "Rankings after 2011 PTC4" (PDF). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 31 August 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  3. "Rankings after the 2011 UK Championship" (PDF). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Shailesh Jogia". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 6 December 2010.
  5. "Joe Jogia". Cue Tracker. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  6. Jogia eyes Main Tour Archived 15 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Wild Card Places
  8. "Williams beats Jogia". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
  9. "Players Tour Championship Event One (2011)". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 10 July 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  10. "Order of Merit". Snooker.org. 8 January 2012. Archived from the original on 4 May 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  11. "Joe Jogia 2011/2012". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  12. "Official World Ranking List for the 2012/2013 Season" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 May 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  13. "WPBSA Statement – Joe Jogia". World Snooker. 30 May 2012. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
  14. "WPBSA Statement – Joe Jogia". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  15. "Issued after the Scottish Open 2012 (ET5)" (PDF). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 17 December 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  16. "Issued after the Munich Open 2013 (ET6)" (PDF). World Snooker. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 7 January 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  17. Rankin, Ben (24 February 2013). "Snooker match-fixing scandal: Star says he was offered £15k to lose a game". Daily Mirror . Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2013.