Kurt Maflin

Kurt Maflin ( born August 8, 1983 in London) is a Norwegian snooker player.

Career

Maflin began with four years at the Snooker games. In the 2001 /02 season made ​​it a native of England after good results in amateur tournaments on the snooker main tour. He was the second youngest professional players worldwide. However, after just one season, he again fell out of the world rankings and he moved with his partner Anita Rizutti, which is also successful in snooker, Norway.

First, he no longer took part in major tournaments. It was not until 2005/ 06, he focused again on his professional career and fought with number 1 on the Pontin's International Open Series returns to the main tour. In 2006 he also won the IBSF World Amateur Championship. The following year he narrowly missed qualifying for the Masters, he lost the final against Barry Hawkins 4:6. A little later he again missed the qualification to remain on the professional tour, then returned in 2010 but the return due to his victory at the EBSA European Play - Offs.

In his first tournament of the season 2010/11 inaugural Players Tour Championship ( PTC) he succeeded in the first round of the 71 official maximum break of snooker history. His biggest success in a professional tournament he had in March 2011 with the Round of 32 at the China Open is reached. However, his world ranking was not enough to remain on the main tour. Maflin but was able to secure the third Q- School event once again ranked among the professionals after the season.

The Gdynia Open 2012 he succeeded the jump to the quarterfinals. In another PTC tournament, the Scottish Open 2012, he scored the second official maximum break of his career. At the first tournament in 2013, he defeated in a dramatic match, after he had been set back to 0:3, the former world champion Neil Robertson still 4-3. After another win in the second round on Liam Highfield he was defeated in the quarterfinals Rod Lawler with 3:4.

When German Masters 2013, the collection he succeeded for the first time, as the first Norwegian at all, the last sixteen of a full ranking tournament. A few weeks later he increased this record clear once again when he in 2012/13 after beating Ken Doherty, Rod Lawler and Ben Woollaston even reached the semifinals at the Grand Finals of the Players Tour Championship, where he defeated Ding Junhui 0-4.

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