Farakh Ajaib

Farakh Ajaib
Born	3 February 1991 (age 34); Blackburn, England
Sport country	England (until 2021); Pakistan (since 2021)
Professional	2020–2022, 2024-present
Highest ranking	85 (July 2025)
Current ranking	85 (as of 24 July 2025)
Best ranking finish	Last 16 (2022 European Masters)

Farakh Ajaib (born 3 February 1991) is a British Pakistani professional snooker player from Lancashire.

Career

In 2018, Ajaib was crowned the inaugural East Lancashire Snooker Championship winner.^[2] He was a ‘top-up’ player for several main tour events in 2018/19 – reward for a solid 2018 Q School campaign.^[3] At the third event of the 2020 Q School at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, Ajaib clinched a two-year Tour Card on to the 2020–21 and 2021–22 snooker seasons.^[4]

At the 2020 English Open, Ajaib defeated Rod Lawler 4–0 before losing 4–3 to Zhou Yuelong in a close match described as a “marathon”.^[5]

Competing at the 2022 European Masters in August, 2022 Ajaib lost to Judd Trump in a deciding frame in a last 16 match in which Ajaib had trailed 4–2 but had left Trump needing three snookers at 4–4.^[6]

He was relegated from the tour in 2023 but regained his place the following year, coming through Q School with a final round win over Iulian Boiko to earn a two-year place starting from the 2024-25 snooker season.^[7]

In June 2025, He was drawn in the round-robin stage of the 2025 Championship League against Si Jiahui, Artemijs Žižins and Kayden Brierley, recording a win over Brierley and a draw with Si Jiahui and was the only player in the group to win a single frame against Zizins.^[8]^[9] He was also drawn to face former world champion Judd Trump again at the 2025 Wuhan Open.^[10]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament	2010/ 11	2011/ 12	2016/ 17	2018/ 19	2020/ 21	2021/ 22	2022/ 23	2024/ 25	2025/ 26
Ranking^{[nb 1]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 3]}	89	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 3]}	85
Ranking tournaments
Championship League	Non-Ranking Event				RR	RR	RR	RR	RR
Saudi Arabia Masters	Tournament Not Held							2R
Wuhan Open	Tournament Not Held							LQ
English Open	Not Held		A	1R	2R	LQ	A	LQ
British Open	Tournament Not Held					1R	A	LQ	LQ
Xi'an Grand Prix	Tournament Not Held							LQ
Northern Ireland Open	Not Held		A	1R	1R	1R	WD	LQ
International Championship	Not Held		A	A	Not Held			LQ
UK Championship	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	LQ	LQ
Shoot Out	Non-Ranking		A	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R
Scottish Open	Not Held		A	A	1R	LQ	A	1R
German Masters	A	A	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	A	LQ
World Grand Prix	Not Held		DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Players Championship^{[nb 4]}	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Welsh Open	A	A	A	A	1R	LQ	LQ	LQ
World Open	A	A	A	A	Not Held			LQ
Tour Championship	Not Held		DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
World Championship	A	A	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ	LQ
Former ranking tournaments
Paul Hunter Classic	Minor-Rank		LQ	A	Tournament Not Held
Riga Masters	Not Held		A	LQ	Tournament Not Held
Indian Open	Not Held		A	LQ	Tournament Not Held
WST Pro Series	Tournament Not Held				RR	Tournament Not Held
Turkish Masters	Tournament Not Held					LQ	Not Held
Gibraltar Open	Not Held		A	1R	1R	2R	Not Held
European Masters	Not Held		A	A	1R	LQ	3R	Not Held
WST Classic	Tournament Not Held						1R	Not Held

Performance Table Legend
LQ	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-finals
SF	lost in the semi-finals	F	lost in the final	W	won the tournament
DNQ	did not qualify for the tournament	A	did not participate in the tournament	WD	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

^ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e He was an amateur
^ ^a ^b New players don't have a ranking
^ The event was called the Players Tour Championship Final (2010/2011–2011/2012)