Vincent "Vinnie" Calabrese (born 7 October 1987) is an Australian former professional

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player from

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. He was based in

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together with his compatriot

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, although he has since moved back to

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Early career

Calabrese started playing snooker aged 7 and soon came to success, winning a number of local tournaments. At the age of just 16 he had already claimed the Australian Snooker Championship. Since 2006 he has been spending a lot of time in England, playing in the PIOS tournaments and practising with

. His initial attempts to gain the main tour place via PIOS and later Q School were unsuccessful, however in 2013 he captured the Oceania Championship in

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with a 6–5 victory against Matthew Bolton to earn a two-year card for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons.

2013/2014 season

Thanks to the newly introduced flat draws, Calabrese was able to qualify for the venue stages of his debut tournament, the

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, as he defeated

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5–3. He lost 5–1 to

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in the last 64 at the venue in China. At the

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he led world number 22

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5–2, but was pegged back to 5–5 with Calabrese saying afterwards that he couldn't hold himself together. However, in the deciding frame he made a composed 70 break to win 6–5 before losing 6–3 against Gary Wilson in the second round. Calabrese was knocked out of the first round of seven of the eight

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events, but at the Bluebell Wood Open he defeated world number two

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4–2,

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4–2 and David Morris 4–1 and then led Jimmy Robertson 3–0 in the last 16, but was beaten 4–3. He finished his debut season on the tour ranked world number 105.

2014/2015 season

Calabrese won just two matches during the 2014–15 season. In February 2015, Calabrese gave up his

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card after the Welsh Open, in which he lost 4–1 to

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in the first round, to return to being an amateur player so he could compete in the Oceania Championship. In March 2015, Calabrese won the Oceania Championship by defeating Matthew Bolton 6–3 in the final and earned a two-year tour card for the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons.

2015/2016 season

Calabrese won just two of 13 games during the 2015/2016 season. Despite having a tour card which also covered the 2016/2017 season, he resigned from the tour in February 2016.

Performance and rankings timeline

Career finals

Amateur finals: 15 (9 titles)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Calabrese, Vinnie 1987 births Living people Australian snooker players Cue sports people from Sydney Sportspeople from Campbelltown, New South Wales