Jin Long

Jin Long (Chinese金龙, Pinyin Jin Long, born 23 May 1981 in the province of Liaoning ) is a Chinese snooker player.

Career

Jin Long began his professional career in 2001 and qualified in its second year with its successful performance in the Asia Cup and the Chinese Championship for the first time for the snooker main tour. After a year he dropped out of the Top 100, but managed on the Challenge Tour the following year under the immediate return of the top professionals.

In the season 2004/ 05 he succeeded for the first time at a tournament the leap into the last 48 to qualify for the Grand Prix. Nevertheless, it was not enough to defend his Main Tour place, but by winning the Asian Cup 2005, he moved for a second year in a row in the list of participants. This time it ran but very bad for him and he fell without a single victory as the last of the rankings again from the main tour.

Then it took two years before he was able to qualify through a new victory in the Asian Cup for the third time for the big snooker tournaments. The 2008/09 season was then the most successful of his career. He could not just repeat the achievement of Round 4 in the Grand Prix qualifier, the same he succeeded at the China Open, in the UK Championship he reached round 3 Thus he advanced in the world rankings even to number 60 before, which he was already set in each year, for the second qualifying round. But his inconsistent performance continued, and only in the World Cup qualifiers he could even boast a win, which is why he lost his Main Tour status again.

His biggest success to date with a Main Tour event had Jin Long at the Shanghai Masters 2010, where he qualified as a wildcard player by beating Robert Milkins first time for the main round of a ranking tournament. He repeated this success at the Haikou World Open 2012 when he hit as a wildcard player Sam Baird. In this tournament, he managed in the first main round even a surprise victory against his fellow countryman Ding Junhui, the most successful players in the country.

Achievements

ACBS Asian Championship 2005, 2008

Snooker world rankings Snooker season 2009/2010 May 23 ACBS Asian Snooker Championship 2010 Shanghai Masters Wild card (sports) 2012 World Open (snooker)

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