Kurt Graham Maflin was born on 8 August 1983 and is an English-Norwegian former professional snooker player.
24 Facts About Kurt Maflin
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Kurt Maflin began playing snooker at the age of four, achieving a high break of 25 by the time he was five.
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Kurt Maflin increased his time spent at the table practising.
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Kurt Maflin appeared twice on BBC1's popular snooker game show series Junior Big Break: Stars of the Future in 1997, and winning the contestant the grand prize of a holiday in 1998.
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Kurt Maflin began his professional career by playing Challenge Tour in 2000, at the time the second-level professional tour.
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In 2001, Kurt Maflin reached the final of the English Open Championship and was runner-up in the European Championship Final staged in Riga, Latvia.
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Kurt Maflin moved to Norway with his partner, female snooker player Anita Rizzuti, and nearly gave up snooker, but his interest was revived after an offer from Norwegian businessman Knut Pederson.
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Kurt Maflin returned to serious competition for the 2006 Challenge Tour.
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Kurt Maflin compiled 15 century breaks on his way to victory and had to win 15 consecutive matches.
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Kurt Maflin had a great run in the non-ranking Masters qualifying tournament, beating the likes of Judd Trump and Jimmy White to reach the final before losing out on a wild card place in the event to Barry Hawkins.
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Kurt Maflin followed it by another near-miss the next season, finishing 15th.
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Kurt Maflin then lost a decider to Xiao Guodong in the World Championship qualifying, a high quality match where each of the players made 2 centuries and multiple 50+ breaks.
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Kurt Maflin was relegated from the tour, however this time he made an immediate return through brand new Q School tournament, having won all his matches in the Event 3.
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Kurt Maflin played in all 12 of the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship events throughout the season, with his best finish coming in Event 12 where he beat James Wattana, former world champion Shaun Murphy and Jack Lisowski to reach the last 16 before losing to Andrew Higginson.
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Kurt Maflin was placed 60th on the PTC Order of Merit.
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Kurt Maflin took advantage of the new flatter qualifying system used in the German Masters, whereby he would only need to win two matches to progress to the main stage in Berlin, by beating Joel Walker and Tom Ford, dropping only a single frame in the process.
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Kurt Maflin had a very good season in the minor-ranking PTC events, with his best results coming at the Gdynia Open and the FFB Open, where was knocked out in the quarter-finals by Jamie Burnett and Rod Lawler respectively.
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Kurt Maflin reached the last 16 of the Scottish Open to help him finish 23rd on the Order of Merit, inside the top 26 who qualified for the Finals.
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Kurt Maflin beat Craig Steadman and Steve Davis to advance to the final round of World Championship Qualifying.
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Kurt Maflin increased his ranking by eight spots during the year to end it world number 64.
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Kurt Maflin's season finished with two last 64 defeats at the China Open and the World Championship to Judd Trump and Andrew Higginson respectively; he ended up 34th in the world, an incredible rise of 30 places from his ranking 12 months previously.
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Kurt Maflin continued to struggle into the early months of 2015 as he suffered a string of first round exits.
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Kurt Maflin nevertheless won the match, followed by defeating John Higgins, voted one of the top-10 matches of the season, before falling to Anthony McGill in the quarter-finals.
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Anita is an amateur snooker player with whom Kurt Maflin participated in the 2014 national world cup.