Itaro Santos (born 28 July 1985) is a German-born Brazilian
snooker
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player. Itaro is based at the Legends Snooker Academy in
Leytonstone
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,
England
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,
United Kingdom
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.
Career
Since 2004, Santos has also competed for
Germany
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, as his native Brazil was not then a member of the
IBSF. He is a two-time
German Amateur Championship
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History
Overview
The championship was ...
and together with
Lasse Münstermann
Lasse Münstermann (born 6 April 1979) is a German retired snooker player and pundit. He began playing at the age of 11, and in 1994 he played in his first World Amateur Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa. For a year he trained in England ...
and
Sascha Lippe competed as part of Team Germany at the
European Team Snooker Championship of 2007. Through a wildcard Santos has also competed in the finals of the
World Series of Snooker 2008/09. However he only managed to finish third in his group and failed to qualify for the next round.
Santos won the 2015 Pan American Championship to earn a two-year card for the snooker tour beginning with the
2015–16 season. He only played four matches in the 2015/2016 season, losing all of them. Santos also lost all 12 of his matches in the
2016–17 season, though he was 3–1 ahead of world number six
Shaun Murphy
Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Snooker Championship, 2005 World Championship and has completed the Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murp ...
at the
UK Championship
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, but was beaten 6–3. He has now dropped off the tour.
Performance and rankings timeline
Tournament wins
Amateur
References
External links
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1985 births
Living people
Brazilian snooker players
German snooker players
Sportspeople from Recife