Vinnie Calabrese

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Vinnie Calabrese
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Calabrese at the 2014 Paul Hunter Classic
Born (1987-10-07) 7 October 1987 (age 36)
Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia
Sport countryFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Professional2013–2016
Highest ranking 79 (June–July 2014) [1]

Vincent "Vinnie" Calabrese (born 7 October 1987) is a former Australian professional snooker player from Campbelltown, New South Wales. He was based in Cambridge together with his compatriot Neil Robertson, although he has since moved back to Australia.

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Early career

Calabrese started playing snooker aged 7 and soon came to success, winning a number of local tournaments. At the age of just 16 he had already claimed the Australian Snooker Championship. Since 2006 he has been spending a lot of time in England, playing in the PIOS tournaments and practising with Neil Robertson. His initial attempts to gain the main tour place via PIOS and later Q School were unsuccessful, however in 2013 he captured the Oceania Championship in Papua New Guinea with a 6–5 victory against Matthew Bolton to earn a two-year card for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons. [2]

2013/2014 season

Thanks to the newly introduced flat draws, Calabrese was able to qualify for the venue stages of his debut tournament, the Wuxi Classic, as he defeated Anthony McGill 5–3. He lost 5–1 to John Higgins in the last 64 at the venue in China. [3] At the UK Championship he led world number 22 Dominic Dale 5–2, but was pegged back to 5–5 with Calabrese saying afterwards that he couldn't hold himself together. However, in the deciding frame he made a composed 70 break to win 6–5 before losing 6–3 against Gary Wilson in the second round. [4] [5] Calabrese was knocked out of the first round of seven of the eight European Tour events, but at the Bluebell Wood Open he defeated world number two Mark Selby 4–2, Dechawat Poomjaeng 4–2 and David Morris 4–1 and then led Jimmy Robertson 3–0 in the last 16, but was beaten 4–3. [3] He finished his debut season on the tour ranked world number 105. [6]

2014/2015 season

Calabrese won just two matches during the 2014–15 season. [7] In February 2015, Calabrese gave up his World Snooker Tour card after the Welsh Open, in which he lost 4–1 to Ronnie O'Sullivan in the first round, to return to being an amateur player so he could compete in the Oceania Championship. [8] In March 2015, Calabrese won the Oceania Championship by defeating Matthew Bolton 6–3 in the final and earned a two-year tour card for the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons. [9]

2015/2016 season

Calabrese won just two of 13 games during the 2015/2016 season. Despite having a tour card which also covered the 2016/2017 season, he resigned from the tour in February 2016. [10]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament 2013/
14
2014/
15
2015/
16
Ranking [11] [nb 1] [nb 2] [nb 3] [nb 2]
Ranking tournaments
Australian Goldfields Open LQLQLQ
Shanghai Masters LQLQLQ
International Championship LQLQLQ
UK Championship 2R 1R 1R
German Masters LQLQLQ
Welsh Open 1R 1R 1R
World Grand Prix NHNRDNQ
Players Tour Championship Grand Final DNQDNQDNQ
China Open LQALQ
World Championship LQAA
Non-ranking tournaments
Six-red World Championship RR AA
Former ranking tournaments
World Open LQNot held
Wuxi Classic 1R LQNH
Indian Open LQANH
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. It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season
  2. 1 2 New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking
  3. Since February 2015 he was an amateur

Career finals

Amateur finals: 15 (9 titles)

OutcomeNo.YearChampionshipOpponent in the finalScore
Winner1.2004Australian Under-18 Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Michael Lupton6–5
Runner-up1.2005Australian Under-21 Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Adam Kinghorn5–6
Winner2.2005Australian Under-18 Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Justin Sajich5–1
Winner3.2005Australian Amateur Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Roger Farebrother6–4
Winner4.2006Australian Under-21 Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Michael Lupton8–3
Winner5.2007Australian Under-21 Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Michael Lupton6–4
Winner6.2008Australian Under-21 Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ricky Emery6–2
Runner-up2.2010Australian Open Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Steve Mifsud 5–6
Runner-up3.2012Australian Open Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Shawn Budd 5–6
Runner-up4.2013Oceania 6-red Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Adrian Ridley0–5
Winner7.2013Oceania Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Matthew Bolton 6–5
Winner8.2015Oceania Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Matthew Bolton 6–3
Runner-up5.2016Australian Amateur Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Mifsud1–6
Runner-up6.2023Asia Pacific 6-Reds Championship Flag of Australia (converted).svg Shaun Dalitz2–4
Winner9.2023Q Tour Asia-Pacific - Event 2 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Steve Mifsud 6–3

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