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Ding Junhui
2005-3-30 2:04:24    CRIENGLISH.com  
 

Category: Asia - China

 

First Name: Ding

 

Last Name: Jun Hui

 

Town / Country: Beijing , China

 

Date of birth: 1 April 1987

 

Club: The Academy, Wellingborough

 

High Break: 141 - 2005 Irish Masters qualifiers & 2005 Masters

 

Ranking: 2004-5 Chinese No. 1

 

Turned Pro: 2003

  

Tournament Record

 

2005 Masters Quarter Final

 

2005 Welsh Open Last 48

 

2004 Chinese Ranking Event 1 Winner

 

2004 British Open Last 16

 

2004 Masters Last 16

 

2003 IBSF World Under 21 Championship Semi Final

 

2003 WSA Main Tour Concession

 

2002 IBSF World Championship Semi Finalist

 

2002 Asian Games Snooker Singles Gold Medal

 

2002 IBSF World Under 21 Champion

 

2002 China Under 18 Champion

 

2002 Asian Champion

 

2002 Chinese Champion

 

2002 Chinese Junior Champion

 

2002 Asian Under 21 Champion

 

Biography

 

Ding shot to fame in 2002. At just fifteen years old he first of all won the Asian Under 21 championship.

 

He followed that up with a resounding 8-1 win over Singapore 's Keith E Boon in the final of the Asian Championship, and to prove that this was no fluke, in August he travelled to Latvia and came home as the new IBSF World under 21 champion.

 

He has since added the Snooker singles Gold Medal in the Asian Games and finished as a semi finalist in the 2002 IBSF World Championship.

 

In 2003 he was unable to progress much in Asian snooker as both the Asian championship and the under 21 event had to be cancelled due to the SARS virus crisis.

 

He defended his World Under 21 title, reaching the semi finals, before losing out to Australian Main Tour player Neil Robertson.

 

The WSA awarded Ding a Main Tour concession in recognition of his outstanding 2002-3 results and he'll started his professional career in September 2003.

 

He turned more heads in February 2004 when he made his debut in the Masters at Wembley and knocked out Joe Perry and narrowly failed to beat Stephen Lee.

 

Since then he's had to get used to a new cue after baggage handlers smashed it. In the 2004-5 season he beat both Tony Drago and Jimmy White to reached the last 16 of the British Open and he got through to the televised stages of the 2005 Welsh Open losing to John Parrott. In January 2005 he made his professional high break of 141 against Gary Wilkinson, during the Irish Masters qualifiers and he equalled that feat at the Wembley Masters.

 

Ding is based at the Academy in Wellingborough, when in the UK , and he's a regular practice partner of Peter Ebdon, who enthuses about his skills and potential.

(Source: globalsnookercentre.co.uk)

 
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