Native place: Yixing, Jiangsu
Birthday: 1987.4. 1
Height:1.76m.
Weight: 60 kg
Transfer to occupation: 2003
World ranking: 57
Total score: 1 1, 525 points.
Points this season: 5,525 points
Brilliant record
Ding Junhui, known by the British media as the "Star of the East", is introverted and competitive. He is a soft-hearted child and is very suitable for playing billiards. He started to contact billiards at the age of 8 and a half, and 13 won the runner-up in the Asian Invitational Tournament. Since then, the title of "child prodigy" has not changed.
In May 2002, Ding Junhui, who was only 15 years old, won the first Asian Championship for China and became the youngest Asian champion. On August 3rd of the same year, Kloc-0/won the World Junior Billiards Championship and became the first world billiards champion in China. At the Asian Games in June 5438+ 10, Ding Junhui won the snooker singles championship by beating Supo Senla of Thailand 3- 1, rewriting the history that China didn't win a gold medal in the billiards event of the Asian Games, and won the second place in the billiards group of the Asian Games with his teammates. In the World Billiards Championship held from June 20th to1October 2nd, 2002, Ding Junhui ranked third, equating veteran Guo Hua's best performance in the 1997 World Championship. On June 5438+February 65438+May 2002, Ding Junhui was awarded "China Billiards Special Contribution Award" by China Billiards Association.
In August 2003, Ding Junhui defeated mark williams, who was ranked first in the world at that time, twice in the Asia-Europe Masters in Hongkong and Thailand. In September 2003, Ding Junhui officially turned into a professional player. In February, 2004, Ding Junhui beat joe perry, who ranked 16 in the world, and broke into the Wembley Masters 16 at 6: 3, which made the British people know and like this billiards boy from the East overnight.
In 2005, Ding Junhui reached the quarterfinals in the prestigious Wembley Masters, and won the championship for the first time in April, beating Abbott, Fu Jiajun, Dahdi and Hendry all the way.
Billiards expert evaluation:
"If Ding is not the first in the world in the future, I will be very surprised! I have fought Davis and Haendly many times, but I have never felt so difficult to deal with. Ding is the best player since O 'Sullivan, even better than O 'Sullivan. He will become the tiger woods of billiards! " —— In February, 2004, Ding Junhui's training partner, 2002 World Championship champion Abton, was interviewed by TV at the Snooker Club in Willingboro, England.
"Ding's active offensive ability is very strong. He is very good at games. I believe that Ding will become a world champion one day and he will become a big star. " -the world's number one O 'Sullivan's evaluation of Ding Junhui.
In 2002, he won the National Junior Billiards Championship, the Asian Championship, the World Youth Championship, the Asian Games and the third place in the World Championships.
China Billiards Ranking Competition (Zhengzhou Station) champion in 2003;
National Billiards Team Championship in 2004 and China Billiards Ranking Championship (Lanzhou Station);
Before the 2004 British Open16; Wembley Masters in England in 2004 16, Top 32 Scottish Masters in the World Professional Tour;
Top 8 at Wembley Masters in 2005, champion of China Open.