Igor Figueiredo

Igor Almeida Figueiredo ( born October 11, 1977 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian snooker player. In the meantime, however, he lives in Gloucester, England.

Career

After several national championships Figueiredo was second at the 2009 IBSF World Amateur Championship, the winner gets a ticket to the Snooker Main Tour the following year. He could still participate in the professional tour 2010/11 through a wild card by the WPBSA. Through constant solid performances he managed to cut-off point 1 of the 2010/11 season already he scored the best results in each case with the Round of 64 is reached at the World Open in 2010 and the Shanghai Masters 2010 at number 67.

He managed to remain on the professional tour of the PTC ranking and started to rank 72 in the season 2011 /12. However, he played only the Brazil Masters 2011 and the qualification for the World Snooker Championship in 2012 and therefore fell back on the world ranking list, so that he could not qualify for the following season.

In addition to the snooker he occasionally plays snooker on competitive sports level. He qualified for the EPA 10-ball World Cup 2008; However, different from winless in the preliminary round.