Ding Junhui

Ding Junhui (Chinese丁俊晖/丁俊晖, Pinyin Ding Junhui; born April 1, 1987 in Yixing, Jiangsu Province) is a Chinese snooker player.

Career

Thing began at the age of nine with the snooker game, since 2003 he is a professional.

In 2005 he won at age 18 his first professional tournament, the China Open. In the finals, the persecuted in China more than 100 million viewers on television, he defeated seven-time world champion and world number two Stephen Hendry 9-5.

One of the greatest successes of his young career include victories at the UK Championship in 2005 and 2009, one of the three most important and most prestigious tournaments of the year in addition to the Masters and the World Cup. In 2005 he defeated in the final in a " generation compared " the 30 year- old player and six -time world champion Steve Davis, 2009, he defeated John Higgins. Thing is the first UK champion, who is not from the British Isles. With his victory at the Masters in 2011, in which he defeated Marco Fu in the final with 10:4, he picked up another of the three great titles.

Ding also won the Northern Ireland Trophy in the 2006/07 season with a 9-6 against Ronnie O'Sullivan.

When Masters 2007 the first maximum break he succeeded in the first round against Anthony Hamilton in his career. In this tournament, Ding reached the final, however, was a chance against a furious aufspielenden Ronnie O'Sullivan and lost with 3:10. O'Sullivan then certified that the Chinese after the match, the potential for superior snooker player " thing will be a multiple world champion. " This tournament, however, caused a kink in his career. As recently as 2009 the Grand Prix in Glasgow, he again reached the final of a ranking tournament.

On October 26, 2008 Ding won the final of the World Series of Snooker in Warsaw 6-4 against Ken Doherty. In the UK Championship, he played on 16 December 2008 against John Higgins a second maximum. He was at that time the eleventh player with more than one maximum break.

After a long dry spell, which threw him back to 2009, back to square 13, the Chinese launched very successfully in the 2009/10 snooker season. In the first three tournaments he came twice to the finals and at the Shanghai Masters he reached at least the quarterfinals, where he again lost to eventual winner Ronnie O'Sullivan. He finally won in late 2009 at the UK Championship his fourth Main Tour title. At the last tournament of the season before the World Cup, the China Open managed it again to the final, but lost on home soil Mark J. Williams with 6:10. At the World Cup 2011, he reached the semifinals, but it lost to Judd Trump at 15:17. In the first round of the FFB Snooker Open 2012 he succeeded his third maximum, and only two days later at the PTC Event 11 another. He holds the record for the shortest interval between two maximum breaks.

His fifth title in a ranking tournament he won in February 2012 at the Welsh Open with a 9-6 final win over Mark Selby. In the Grand Finals of the Players Tour Championship 2012/13 he succeeded against Mark Allen his fifth maximum break. In addition, he won the tournament, where he was able to convert in the final against Neil Robertson a 0-3 down to a 4-3 victory.

At the 4th Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 2013 Incheon Korean he was defeated in the finals ( men's singles ) his compatriot Cao Yupeng with 2:4 and was the favorite for the title, only the silver medal. However, in the team competition, he was successful together with Liang Wenbo and Tian Pengfei. They sat down in the final against the " team of Independent athletes " ( Aditya Mehta and Brijesh Damani ) 3-2.

In September 2013 he won the Shanghai Masters by a 10:6 final against his compatriot Xiao Guodong. Only a month later, he won the Indian Open in 2013 another ranking tournament by a clear 5-0 in the final against local hero Aditya Mehta. Also in the International Championship in Chengdu thing could win the title. He beat Marco Fu in the final with just under 10:9. In the German Masters in 2014 he built the series of four victories in a row in world ranking tournaments. The last time this was Stephen Hendry in 1990/91 succeeded. At the last tournament of the season before the World Cup, the China Open he made against the world number one Neil Robertson his fifth win of the season perfectly. This too was last Hendry also succeeded in 1991.

Achievements

Ranking Tournaments

  • China Open - 2005, 2014
  • UK Championship - 2005, 2009
  • Northern Ireland Trophy - 2006
  • Welsh Open - 2012
  • Players Tour Championship - Grand Finals - 2013
  • Shanghai Masters - 2013
  • Indian Open - 2013
  • International Championship - 2013
  • German Masters - 2014

Minor ranking tournaments

  • Players Tour Championship, Event 5-2010
  • Scottish Open - 2012

Invitation Tournaments

  • Jiangsu Classic - 2008
  • Masters - 2011
  • Championship League - 2012

Team Challenges

  • World Cup - 2011

Other ( selection)

  • IBSF Under-21 World Cup - 2002
  • ACBS Asian Championship - 2002
  • ACBS U21 Asia Championship - 2002
  • Asian Games, Single - 2002, 2006
  • Asian Games, Double - 2006
  • Asian Games team - 2006, 2010
  • World Series of Snooker, Warsaw - 2008
  • Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games: 2013 - Gold / team, silver / Individual

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