Semih Saygıner was born on November 12, 1964 in Adapazarı. He is a professional 3 band billiards player.
Having won the first World Billiard Championship in 1994, Saygıner is known worldwide as "Mr. Magic" or "The Turkish Prince". In Turkey, it is the person who makes bilarson become a federation.
Saygıner has been a professional actor for 9 years in the Dutch league and 3 years in the Portuguese league. He has 42 unique hit techniques as "Semih Saygıner Magic Shots" (Billiard Literature) and this game is one of the most important names in the world.
While in high school, Saygıner, who was sadly surprised to lose his parents and parents in traffic accidents, could not continue his school life even though he later tried to win exams and finish the course.
Beginning with this period of interest in billiards, Saygıner won his first success in 1981 at the 1st Istanbul Billiard Championship.
Despite continuing to attend tournaments in succession, he had to slow down due to financial reasons and worked with his brother for a while in his construction company.
After his army, he decided to continue the professional billiard and found a job in a billiard room in Istanbul. In 1988, he had the chance to show himself in the international arena, famous in Turkey.
Seregener, who rose to 9th place with the success of the 1991 German Open tournament, was 9th in the Istanbul Efes Pilsen Grand Prix held in the same year. He was the world's 8th champion after beating Germany 3-Bayer Billiard Champion Raymond Ceulemans 3-1 in the final match of the Berlin World Championship in Germany in 1992. Reputation rose to sixth place in World Class as World's 3rd in Berlin in 1993.
Semih Saygıner won the first World Cup as the 1st in the Gent World Championship in Belgium in 1994. This success, rising to the 3rd place in World Classics, 2 world record broke.
These records were broken again later:
1994 - 45 points 11 strokes - 4.090 average (3 sets)
1994 - 50 points 14 strokes - 3.571 avg. (3 sets)
Again in 1994, Saygıner was transferred to the Dutch Teams League, which is known as Bilardon's most important league. In 1998, Antalya was the 1st in the World Billiards Championships (3 bands) in Kemer, defeating Cerwin Walentijn of Netherlands in the finals. In 2003, Mönchengladbach became the Champion, defeating the Greek team at the finals with Tayfun Taşdemir in the World Billiards Team Championship in Germany.
25 points in total Turkish Grand prix champion Saygıner became the Turkish Champion 14 times in 3 bands. Karambolde 10 times as Turkey Champion, Cadre 47/2 and once in the singles Turkey championship success has caught.
Saygıner, who was awarded the athlete of the year for various places, was selected as the Best Billiards Player of 2003 in Antwerp, Belgium on 7 February 2004. The player ranked 8th on the world player list of the UMB (Union Mondiale de Billard) in 2006 and captain of the FC Porto Billiard Team in the Poto League for 3 years. In 2005, he won bronze medal in F.C.Porto team and European Club Championship. He won a silver medal in the 2006 European Championship, the second in the European Championships in the same year.
Semih Saygıner was married to Aygen Berk, a billiards player in 1995. Berk, who is the Turkish Women's Championship, is also the founding member of Turkish Billiard Federation. Saygıner, who has a great share in the popularity and rapid expansion of bilateral in Turkey, also conducted the presidency of the billiard federation between 1996-1997.
The world is in the billiards' Mr. Saygıner, nicknamed "Magic" and "the Turkish Prince", has 42 unique hit techniques in Billiard Literature. The successful player continues to play in the Dutch League.
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