Igor Figueiredo

Igor Figueiredo

Born	(1977-10-11) October 11, 1977 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sport country	Brazil
Nickname	T-Igor
Professional	2010–2012, 2013–2017, 2019–2022
Highest ranking	65 (September 2010)
Best ranking finish	Last 16 (x3)

Igor Almeida Figueiredo (born October 11, 1977) is a Brazilian former professional snooker player.

Career

Amateur career

Prior to entering the PIOS tour in 2009, Figueiredo had only played on 10-foot tables in his home country. Despite this, his results were impressive, allowing him to finish 12th on the year-end ranking list. Figueiredo's most significant achievement however came at the 2009 IBSF World Championship, as he enjoyed a spectacular run to the final. Although he lost 10–8 to experienced Alfie Burden, he was given a wild card by WPBSA onto the main tour for 2010/2011.

2010–2012

In his first professional tournament, the minor-ranking PTC Event 1, Figueiredo won two matches to reach the last 32. He went further in the Event 3, losing a decider to Barry Hawkins in the last 16. At the Shanghai Masters, Figueiredo beat Jamie O'Neill 5–4 and David Gilbert 5–4 (despite being docked a frame for forgetting his cue). His run ended in the last 64 losing 5–1 to Fergal O'Brien. He also qualified for the televised stages of the World Open, losing 0–3 in the third round to Mark Williams. From this point however, Figueiredo started to struggle for form, losing all his opening matches at the major tournaments. Thanks to his strong performances at the PTC events he was able to retain his tour card for the 2011/12 season, despite finishing only 80th in the world rankings.

Due to the lack of sponsorship Figueiredo only entered qualifying for one ranking event of the next season, the 2012 World Championship, where he won three matches, before losing 7–10 to Joe Jogia. He also participated in the inaugural Brazil Masters and defeated world number 17 Jamie Cope in the first round 4–2, but then lost by the same scoreline to Graeme Dott in the quarter-finals.

2013–2017

In 2013, Figueiredo returned to Main Tour after receiving the nomination from the Americas region, but the lack of sponsorship again forced him to sit out the whole season until the 2014 World Championship. He repeated his last 64 run of 2012 as he beat Adam Duffy 10–4 in the first qualifying round, and followed it with 10–8 win against Gerard Greene, but suffered a heavy 10–1 defeat to Martin Gould in the penultimate round. Figueiredo also took part in the snooker tournament at the 2013 World Games, where he lost 3–2 to Dechawat Poomjaeng in the bronze medal match.

Figueiredo finally managed to gain sponsorship before the 2014 UK Championship, and was able to enter all the remaining tournaments of the 2014/2015 season. At the UK Championship he defeated Fergal O'Brien 6–4 to reach the last 64, where he lost 6–4 to Anthony McGill. He repeated this result at the German Masters qualifying by beating Kurt Maflin 5–3, before Stuart Bingham defeated him 5–1. Figueiredo went on to lose his opening match at each of the next three ranking tournaments, but enjoyed another strong run at the World Championship qualifiers. He started with a 10–3 win against veteran Nigel Bond, and followed that with a dramatic 10–9 victory over Rod Lawler, in a match where Figueiredo led 8–2 and 9–5, to reach the final round, where he lost 10–4 to Robin Hull.

Figueiredo was able to stay on the tour, as he was issued an International Development Main Tour Card as the Brazilian National Champion. He again had to sit out most of the season up to the 2016 World Championship where he was defeated 10–2 by Matthew Selt in the first qualifying round.

In the latter part of the 2016/2017 season Figueiredo had his best finishes on the tour to date. At the Welsh Open he secured wins over Alfie Burden, Anthony McGill and Dominic Dale, before falling 4–1 to Stuart Carrington. He also reached the fourth round of the Gibraltar Open by eliminating Sydney Wilson, Fraser Patrick and Thor Chuan Leong and lost 4–2 to Nigel Bond. He was relegated from the tour at the end of the year though due to being ranked 111th in the world.

2022-23

Figueiredo had moved back to Brazil in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic and had not competed on any events since. In the 2022-23 season, he chose not to renew his membership of the WPBSA and was removed from the world rankings during the 2022 European Masters.

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament	2010/ 11	2011/ 12	2013/ 14	2014/ 15	2015/ 16	2016/ 17	2017/ 18	2018/ 19	2019/ 20	2020/ 21	2021/ 22
Ranking		75		109		126				82
Ranking tournaments
Championship League	Non-Ranking Event									RR	RR
European Masters	Tournament Not Held					A	A	A	LQ	1R	A
British Open	Tournament Not Held										1R
Northern Ireland Open	Tournament Not Held					1R	A	A	1R	4R	LQ
UK Championship	LQ	A	A	2R	A	1R	A	A	1R	2R	A
Scottish Open	Tournament Not Held					2R	A	A	1R	1R	WD
English Open	Tournament Not Held					A	A	A	1R	1R	WD
World Grand Prix	Tournament Not Held			NR	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Shoot Out	Non-Ranking Event					1R	A	A	2R	WD	A
German Masters	LQ	A	A	LQ	A	LQ	A	A	LQ	LQ	WD
Welsh Open	LQ	A	A	1R	A	4R	A	A	3R	1R	A
Players Championship	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Turkish Masters	Tournament Not Held										A
Tour Championship	Tournament Not Held							DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
World Championship	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	A
Non-ranking tournaments
Six-red World Championship	RR	NH	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Not Held
World Seniors Championship	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	NH	A	SF	A
Former ranking tournaments
Shanghai Masters	LQ	A	A	A	A	A	A	Non-Ranking		Tournament Not Held
Indian Open	Not Held		A	LQ	NH	A	A	A	Tournament Not Held
China Open	LQ	A	A	LQ	A	LQ	A	A	Tournament Not Held
China Championship	Tournament Not Held					NR	A	A	LQ	Tournament Not Held
World Open	LQ	A	A	Not Held		A	A	A	1R	Tournament Not Held
WST Pro Series	Tournament Not Held									RR	Not Held
Gibraltar Open	Tournament Not Held				MR	4R	A	A	2R	1R	A
Former non-ranking tournaments
Brazil Masters	NH	QF	Tournament Not Held
Haining Open	Tournament Not Held			Minor-Ranking		A	A	A	SF	NH	A

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 now a ranking event

Career finals

Non-ranking finals: 1

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	2018	UK Seniors Championship	Ken Doherty	1–4

Amateur finals: 3 (2 titles)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	2009	IBSF World Snooker Championship	Alfie Burden	8–10
Winner	1.	2018	WSF Seniors Championship	Darren Morgan	5–3
Winner	2.	2019	Pan American Snooker Championship	Renat Denkha	5–1

External links

• Igor Figueiredo at worldsnooker.com
• Profile on Global Snooker
• Profile on IBSF