Ding Junhui is also known as Enter Dragon and is one of most successful snooker player in the world. He has won fourteen major tournaments throughout his career. Additionally, he has made it to the final of both the World Championship and the World Championship. He is actually considered the greatest Asian player of all time.
Chinese pro snooker players were introduced to the game by their father, who was a keen snooker enthusiast. As a child, he joined the Shanghai national Snooker team. He has been a big success in China.
Ding was the youngest ever player to break a televised, 147-break in history. He also won the IBSF World Under-21 Championship in the same year. He won this title for the first time and was ranked nineth in the world at the conclusion of the 2006/07 season.
Ding has won 14 major ranking titles in his career. Ding is also a three time UK Champion. Ding started his professional career at the age of sixteen and has amassed more than 500 century records during his career. Ding's recent absences have had a negative effect on his match sharpness. Ding still has a large social media following in China.
At age 18, Ding reached the final of the China Open and then became the first player from outside Great Britain and Ireland to win a ranking title. He also defeated Marco Fu in 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. His career has seen a decline over the past six year. He is currently ranked 9th in the World. And he has not played in a big money ranking event since 2017.
But the 34-yearold has a strong record. He has won nearly $5 million in major tournaments. He won five ranking tournament tournaments during the 2013-14 season and reached the semifinals at the Ladbrokes World Grand Prix. But he lost to Barry Hawkins and Shaun Murphy in the quarter-finals.
He has won ten matches during the 2019 season and recorded ten century breaks. Moreover, Ding has reached the semifinals of the Ladbrokes Players Tour Championship. Ding is likely to return to January's World Championship.
He has also managed to defeat the 16 world's top players. He defeated Joe Perry. James Cahill. Thepchaiya UN-Nooh. He also made seven centuries in semi-finals at the Shangai Masters.
At just 18 years old, he won a Chinese National Championship. In addition to becoming the youngest player to accumulate six maximum breaks, he also became the youngest ever to win the Chinese National Championship. His ranking went up seven spots to make him the ninth-best international snooker players.
Ding remained at the top 16 in the rankings prior to that. Ding fell from the top 16 eventually. Ding has been a prominent figure in Asian snooker throughout his career.