Ahmed Saif
| Born | 1 January 1983 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Qatar
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| Professional | 2013–2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 113 (June–July 2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Career winnings | £1,700 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest break | 95 (2015 Welsh Open) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Century breaks | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Best ranking finish | Wildcard round (2008 Bahrain Championship) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Ahmed Saif (born 1 January 1983) is a former Qatari professional snooker player. He is the first professional snooker player from Qatar. Unusually, for a left-handed player, he uses the rest right-handed.
Saif as an amateur represented the Qatari national snooker team at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Asian Games, 2009 and 2013 Asian Indoor Games. Saif had success in the 2011 Pan Arab Games where he won a silver medal in the snooker singles, losing to Iraqi Firas Al-Shamini in the final, he also won a bronze in the team event alongside Ali Al Obaidly and Mohsen Bukshaisha.
Saif also appeared as a wildcard in 2008 Bahrain Championship, where he lost 5–1 to Robert Milkins in the wildcard round. He also appeared in the opening two Players Tour Championship events in the 2010/2011 season, however he lost both of them 4–0 to Andrew Higginson and Jamie Rhys Clarke.
Saif entered the Q School at the end of the 2012/2013 season in an attempt to become Qatar's first professional snooker player. In the first event he beat fellow countryman Mohsen Bukshaisha, before falling to Shane Castle in the last 64. However with wins over Zack Richardson, Duane Jones, Michael Georgiou, Antony Parsons and Jamie Rhys Clarke in the second event, Saif reached the semi-final stages and won a place on the main tour for the 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 seasons.
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