Rouzi Maimaiti (; ; born 4 July 1983) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career Maimaiti has been a wildcard player at several ranking tournaments before turning professional. He lost the majority of the matches except a 5–1 over Dave Harold in the 2012 Wuxi Classic, before suffering a reverse to Mark Allen in the last 32 stage. Also in the 2012–13 season, Maimaiti entered into the new Asian Players Tour Championship events with little success, winning only one match The 2013/2014 events were much more successful and with eight wins in the four events Maimaiti was able to qualify for one of the four professional World Snooker Tour cards available through the Asian Tour of Merit money list. Maimaiti qualified for the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons and then re-qualified for the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons.
Professional Rouzi only played in the three Asian Tour events during the 2014–15 season. He won four matches to reach the quarter-finals of the Xuzhou Open, where he lost 4–1 to Joe Perry which saw him finish 25th on the Order of Merit. The following season he only played in the Haining Open, losing 4–1 to Tom Ford in the second round. Despite dropping off the tour having finished a lowly 115th in the world, he received the Chinese nomination for a new two-year tour place. He did not enter a single event in the 2016–17 season.
Performance and rankings timeline
Tournament 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 RankingIt shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.He was an amateur.New players don't have a ranking.118Players qualified through CBSA China Tour nomination started the season without ranking points. Ranking tournaments World Open AWR A A Not held A A A A Players ChampionshipThe event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2010/2011–2012/2013) DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ China OpenWR A A A A A A A A A Non-ranking tournaments Haining Open Tournament Not Held MR4R2R2R1R Former ranking tournaments Wuxi Classic Non Ranking1R A A Tournament Not Held Shanghai MastersWRWR A A A A A A Non-Ranking Former non-ranking tournaments Wuxi ClassicA1RRanking Tournament Not Held Performance Table LegendLQ 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-finalsSF lost in the semi-finalsF lost in the finalW won the tournamentDNQ did not qualify for the tournamentA did not participate in the tournamentWD 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 a ranking event.MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
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