Eden Sharav
 Paul Hunter Classic 2014 | |
| Born | 30 April 1992 Mishmar Ayalon, Israel |
|---|---|
| Sport country |  Scotland (until 2018) Israel (2018–present) |
| Professional | 2015– |
| Highest ranking | 67 (May 2019) |
| Best ranking finish | Semi-finals (2018 Northern Ireland Open) |
Eden Sharav (Template:Lang-he; born 30 April 1992) is an Israeli-Scottish professional snooker player.
Career
Amateur
In 2011 Sharav won the Pontins "Star of the Future" event aged 19 beating fellow Scotsman Ross Muir 4–0 in the final in Prestatyn. A few months later as an amateur, Sharav reached the last 16 stage of his tournament debut in the Players Tour Championship, beating professionals, Liang Wenbo 4–0, Adam Duffy 4–1 and Gary Wilson 4–2, before a 4–0 defeat to Marcus Campbell.[1] He then entered Q School in 2014, with the aim to win a two-year professional tour card.[1] He was unsuccessful, losing in the final rounds of both events to Tian Pengfei and Michael Leslie.[1] He was though able to enter in all of the ranking tournaments as a top-up player for the 2014–15 season due to his strong Q School performances. He qualified for the venue stages of the 2014 International Championship and 2015 Indian Open, losing in the first round of both.[2][3] He then entered Q School at the end of the season.[1]
Professional
In the first event of Q School, Sharav reached the final round and made breaks of 103 and 83 and against Adam Duffy and won 4–3, a win which gave Sharav to a two-year card to the World Snooker Tour for the 2015–16 season and 2016–17 seasons.[4][1] He won a match as a professional at the first attempt by beating Andrew Milliard 5–3 in the 2015 Australian Goldfields Open qualifiers.[5] Sharav could not qualify for any ranking event in the 2015–16 season outside of the UK Championship and Welsh Open for which he gained automatic entry. At the UK he came back from 5–2 behind against Alan McManus to level at 5–5. Sharav got the snooker he needed in the decider, but McManus potted the blue to win in a match that finished at 1:30am.[6] At the Welsh Open he lost 4–2 to Jack Lisowski in the first round.[5]
A 4–1 win over Sean O'Sullivan saw Sharav qualify for the 2016 Indian Open where he was defeated 4–0 by Stuart Carrington. He overcame Nigel Bond 6–3 to play in the International Championship and lost 6–3 to John Higgins in the first round. Sharav eliminated Oliver Lines 4–1 in the first round of both the Northern Ireland Open and the Welsh Open, but was then eliminated in the second round 4–0 by Yan Bingtao and 4–1 by Robert Milkins respectively.[7] Sharav qualified for the China Open by overcoming Jamie Jones 5–3 and whitewashed Ross Muir 5–0 in the first round, before being unable to pick up a frame in a 5–0 loss to Judd Trump.[8] Sharav finished the year outside the top 64 in the world rankings, but has secured a new tour card by taking the seventh spot out of eight on the one-year ranking list.[9]
Performance and rankings timeline
| 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. | |||
- ^ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
- ^ He was an amateur.
- ^ New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
- ^ a b Players qualified One Year Ranking List started the season without ranking points.
- ^ The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)
- ^ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2011/2012–2012/2013)
Career finals
Pro-am finals: 1 (1 runner-up)
| Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score |
| Runner-up | 1. | 2017 | PMK Invitational Pro-Am | Graeme Dott
|
3−4[11] |
Amateur finals: 1 (1 title)
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score |
| Winner | 2011 | Pontins Star of the Future | Ross Muir
|
4–0 |
References
- ^ a b c d e "Eden Sharav". Pro Snooker Blog. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
- ^ "International Championship (2014)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
- ^ "Indian Open (2015)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
- ^ "Quartet Earn Tour Cards". World Snooker. 2015-05-19. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
- ^ a b "Eden Sharav 2015/2016". Snooker.org.
- ^ "Trump Eases Into Round Two". World Snooker. 2015-11-25. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- ^ "Eden Sharav 2016/2017". Snooker.org. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
- ^ "Judd Trump and Shaun Murphy breeze through China Open second round in Beijing". Eurosport. 2017-03-29. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
- ^ "Rankings 2016/2017". Snooker.org. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ^ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- ^ "2017 PMK Invitational Pro-Am".
External links
- Eden Sharav at CueTracker.net: Snooker Results and Statistic Database
- Eden Sharav at worldsnooker.com