Soheil Vahedi

Soheil Vahedi
Born	15 March 1989 (age 35); Tehran, Iran
Sport country	Iran
Nickname	The King of Persia
Professional	2017–
Highest ranking	80 (August 2020)
Best ranking finish	Last 16 (2020 Welsh Open)
Medal record
Representing Iran
Mixed snooker
World Games
Men's snooker
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

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

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] In May 2019, Vahedi came through Q-School - Event 1 by winning five matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons.

Tournament	2015/ 16	2017/ 18	2018/ 19	2019/ 20	2020/ 21
Ranking^[5]^{[nb 1]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 3]}	86	^{[nb 4]}	80
Ranking tournaments
European Masters	NH	WD	LQ	LQ	1R
English Open	NH	1R	1R	1R	1R
Championship League	Non-Ranking Event				RR
Northern Ireland Open	NH	1R	1R	2R	1R
UK Championship	A	1R	1R	1R	1R
Scottish Open	NH	1R	2R	1R	1R
World Grand Prix	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
German Masters	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ
Shoot-Out	NR	1R	A	3R
Welsh Open	A	2R	2R	4R
Players Championship	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Gibraltar Open	MR	3R	1R	2R
WST Pro Series	Tournament Not Held
Tour Championship	Not Held		DNQ	DNQ
World Championship	A	LQ	LQ	LQ
Variant format tournaments
Six-red World Championship	RR	RR	A	A
Former ranking tournaments
Shanghai Masters	A	1R	Non-Rank.		NH
Indian Open	NH	1R	2R	Not Held
China Open	A	LQ	LQ	Not Held
Riga Masters^{[nb 5]}	MR	LQ	LQ	WD	NH
International Championship	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	NH
China Championship	NH	LQ	LQ	LQ	NH
World Open	NH	LQ	LQ	LQ	NH

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

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

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	2009	World Amateur Under-21 Championship	Noppon Saengkham	8–9
Winner	1.	2016	World Amateur Championship	Andrew Pagett	8–1

^ "Soheil Vahedi". World Snooker Tour. Archived from the original on 22 September 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
^ davidcaulfield (2016-11-29). "Soheil Vahedi Wins World Amateur Championship". SnookerHQ. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
^ "Clear win for Soheil to claim Tour Ticket". International Billiards and Snooker Federation. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
^ "Iran's Soheil Vahedi wins IBSF World Snooker". Tehran Times. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
^ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.