Ding Junhui, also known by Enter the Dragon is one the most successful snooker players worldwide. He has won 14 major tournaments during his career, and has reached the final of two World Championships. He is actually considered the greatest Asian player of all time.
Chinese pro-snooker player, Liu Zhiyuan, was introduced to the sport by his father, who was an avid snooker fan. He went to the Shanghai national snooker team as a child and has been a major success in the home country.
Ding was the youngest ever player to break a televised, 147-break in history. He was also the winner of the IBSF World Under-21 Championship. He was awarded his first professional title. At the end of the 2006-07 seasons, he was ranked number nine in the world.
During his career, Ding has won a total of fourteen major ranking titles. He is also a past three-time UK Champion. Ding began playing professionally at sixteen years old and has recorded more than 500 century breaks during his entire career. His match sharpness has been affected by his absences over the past few years. Despite this, Ding has a huge social media following in China.
Ding, then 18, reached the finals of the China Open. He was the first non-Irish player to win a ranking title. Ding also beat Marco Fu to win his first all-Asian final.
Ding, despite the success of his homeland, has not been in a position to keep his title as the top snooker player. In the past six-years, Ding has had a career decline. He is currently ranked ninth around the globe. And he has not played in a big money ranking event since 2017.
But the 34-yearold has a strong record. In total, he has won almost $5 million in major tournaments. During the 2013-14 season, he won five ranking event tournaments and made it to the semifinals of the Ladbrokes World Grand Prix. He lost to Shaun Murphy and Barry Hawkins in the quarterfinals.
Ding has won ten matches in 2019 and compiles ten century wins. Moreover, Ding has reached the semifinals of the Ladbrokes Players Tour Championship. His return to the World Championship is anticipated in January.
He has also managed to defeat the 16 world's top players. He defeated Joe Perry. James Cahill. Thepchaiya UN-Nooh. In the semifinals of the Shangai Masters, he scored seven centuries.
He won the Chinese National Championship at 18 and became the youngest player ever to achieve six maximum break records. He rose seven spots in his ranking to become the ninth best snooker player on the planet.
Ding was still in the top 16 positions. Ding fell from the top 16 eventually. Ding has been a regular in the Asian Snooker scene all his life.