Yu Delu
Yu Delu (Chinese于 德 陆; born October 11, 1987 in Shanxi Province ) is a Chinese snooker player.
Career
Already in youth Yu Delu drew attention to himself. After some national success in 2005, he was one of the eight wild cards for the China Open. In his first international professional tournament, he defeated the Englishman Andrew Norman and moved into the main round. There he was defeated Graeme Dott. In the coming five years, he was represented at the tournament in the wildcard round. 2007 against Joe Jogia and 2009 against Rod Lawler he could repeat the entry into the main tournament, but Ali Carter and Graeme Dott again prevented each getting ahead.
Also introduced at the 2007 Shanghai Masters he was three years in a row to be the wildcard players and was able to defeat the British in 2007, Mike Dunn, before he lost to his countryman Ding Junhui. When Wuxi Classic he belonged twice to four invited Chinese players, 2010, he lost while only reaching against Ryan Day, 2011, he defeated Matthew Stevens before Ali Carter beat him.
Among the successes in addition to the main tour belonged to the quarter-finals at the IBSF Under-21 World Cup in 2007 and silver and gold at the East Asian Games in 2009 ( in the regular or in the Six -Red Snooker ).
Despite these achievements did not succeed Yu Delu, to regularly qualify for the Tour Snooker Main. But in 2011 he was given a tour of the four - wildcards WPBSA. Right at the qualification for the first ranking tournament of the season, the Australian Goldfields Open 2011, he succeeded in three wins over Joe Swail, among other things and Joe Jogia. In qualifying for the German Masters 2012, he defeated among others the top 20 player Jamie Cope and reached the final of the tournament, where he first came through the Wildcard round and in the first round and Ding Junhui beat and thus moved into the second round. Also in the Players Tour Championship, he was very successful and reached the second and fourth tournament in each case the quarter-finals with wins over several top -50 player.