Ding Junhui

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ding Junhui
Occupation	Snooker Player
Date Of Birth	Apr 1, 1987(1987-04-01)
Age	37
Birthplace	Yixing
Country	China
Birth City	Jiangsu
Horoscope	Aries

Ding Junhui Biography

Ding Junhui is one of the most popular and richest Snooker Player who was born on April 1, 1987 in Yixing, Jiangsu, China. The snooker player is widely believed to be the top Chinese player to ever play. He took home Six Asian title between 2002 and 2013,, and was the youngest champion of the IBSF World Under-21 Championship.

He as well as the English player He and England’s Judd Trump have both been ranked in the top 10 of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association’s world rankings. have both been within the top 10 of the world professional billiards Association and Snooker Association’s global rankings.

Ding Junhui (Chinese: 丁俊晖 ; born 1 April 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player who has been considered the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport. Throughout his career, he has won 14 major ranking titles, including three UK Championships in 2005, 2009, and 2019; two Shanghai Masters titles in 2013 and 2016; and one German Masters title in 2014. He has also twice reached the final of the Masters, winning once in 2011. Representing China at the Asian Games, Ding has won five gold medals in individual and team events. In 2016, he became the first Asian player to reach the final of the World Championship. The same year, he won his first Six-red World Championship.

Ding rose to international prominence in 2002 at age 15, when he won the Asian Under-21 Championship, the Asian Championship, and became the youngest ever winner of the IBSF World Under-21 Championship. He was unable to progress much in 2003 when both Asian tournaments were canceled because of the 2002–03 SARS virus outbreak, but he reached the semi-finals of the IBSF World Under-21 Championship, and the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) awarded him a concession to play on the main snooker tour, which enabled him to turn professional in September 2003. In the same year, Ding became the number-one-ranked player in China.

His parents have sold their house to fund his professional career as a snooker player.

Ding Junhui Net Worth

Ding Junhui is one of the richest Snooker Player from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ding Junhui 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started snooker training at the age of nine, and he took home at the Asian Under-21 Championship in 2002.

He is only the second person to be awarded three ranking titles when he was an teen.

Ding Junhui was born on 1 April 1987 in Yixing, Jiangsu, China. At eight years old, Ding tagged along with his father, a pool enthusiast who wanted to practice with a local pool expert. When his father went for a toilet break, Ding took the cue and played with the professional. Ding won the game before his father returned. Since then, Ding’s parents supported him in cue sports training, particularly snooker. At age nine, he was taken by his father to the training center of the Chinese national snooker team near Shanghai and persuaded his mother to sell their home and grocery business so Ding could continue playing snooker as a career. The family moved to Dongguan, Guangdong, and Ding left formal education at age 11 to practice snooker for eight hours each day.

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Who is Ding Junhui Dating?

According to our records, Ding Junhui married to Apple Zhang. As of December 1, 2023, Ding Junhui’s is not dating anyone.

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In January 2007, Ding defeated Cao Xinlong 5–4 to reach the final of the Chinese National Championship in his home town Yixing, Jiangsu. In He defeated Xiao Guodong in the final by 6–2 to become the national champion again. On 14 January, Ding made a 147 break in his first-round match against Anthony Hamilton at the Masters, which was Ding’s first maximum break and the first maximum break made at the competition since Kirk Stevens’ in 1984. The break made Ding the youngest player to make a televised 147—a record previously held by Ronnie O’Sullivan—and the first Chinese player to make a televised maximum. Ding played O’Sullivan in the final, becoming the second-youngest player and the first Asian player to reach a Masters’ final.

Facts & Trivia

Ding Ranked on the list of most popular Snooker Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Ding Junhui celebrates birthday on April 1 of every year.

The following season, Ding was consistent, reaching the last 16 of all-but-one ranking event. However, he failed to reach a single semi-final, causing him to drop to number 13 in the world rankings. At the 2008 World Snooker Championship, Ding reached the second round for the first time, beating Marco Fu 10–9 before losing 13–7 to Stephen Hendry. During the 2007 Premier League Snooker, Ding recorded 495 unanswered points (most points without reply) against Stephen Hendry, setting a record for the most unanswered points in any professional snooker tournament. The record was surpassed in 2014 when Ronnie O’Sullivan recorded 556 unanswered points against Ricky Walden.

Top Facts about Ding Junhui

1. Ding Junhui is a Chinese professional snooker player.
2. He has won three UK championships and one Masters championship.
3. Ding turned professional at the age of 16.
4. He is considered one of China’s greatest ever sportsmen.
5. Ding has won over £7 million in prize money.
6. He holds the record for most ranking titles by an Asian player.
7. In 2016, he became the first Asian player to reach world number one ranking.
8. Ding has made over 500 century breaks in his career.
9. He was awarded an MBE for services to snooker in 2019.
10. Ding has represented China at multiple World Cups and Olympics events.

What has happened to Ding Junhui?

Ding Junhui will be missing from January’s prestigious Masters tournament – reserved exclusively for snooker’s top 16 players – for the first time since 2006 as an 18-year-old, following a latest fallow period that has lasted two years since his UK Championship win in 2019 in York.

Has Ding won the world championship?

Ding won the 2016 Six-red World Championship , beating Stuart Bingham on the final black in the final by 8–7. Ding won his second Shanghai Masters title, defeating Mark Selby 10–6 in the final. It was the 12th ranking- tournament win of his career and he also became the first player to win the event twice.

Who is Ding Junhui wife?

Apple Zhang

What happened Ding snooker?

But what happened to Ding? In short, the boy became a man. Ding is now married with a young daughter, but when Covid hit he was stuck in the UK as snooker went behind closed doors while his family were back in China.

Who is the best Chinese snooker player?

Tournament wins
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Non-ranking| 1
Medal record Representing China Men’s Snooker Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 2017 Ashgabat Six-red singles 2017 Ashgabat Team