Ding Junhui, also known as Enter the Dragon, is one of the most successful snooker players in the world. He has won 14 major tournaments in his career and has also made it to the final of the World Championship twice. In fact, he is the most successful Asian player ever.
His father, a passionate snooker fan, introduced the Chinese pro snooker player to the game when he was eight years old. 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 was the first professional title he won and he was ranked world number nine at end of 2006-07 season.
Ding has won a total fourteen major ranking titles over the course of his career. He is also the three-time UK Champion. Ding has more than 500 century break records throughout his career, having started playing professionally when he was sixteen. However, his recent absences have had an adverse impact on Ding's match sharpness. Ding enjoys a huge following on social media in China despite this.
Ding reached 18 years of age and reached the China Open final. After that, he became the first player not from Great Britain or Ireland to win an international ranking title. He beat Marco Fu in the 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 taken a downward turn in the past six years. He currently ranks 9th in the world. He has not participated in any major ranking events since 2017.
But the 34-yearold has a strong record. He has won over $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 was defeated in the quarter finals by Shaun Murphy, Barry Hawkins, and Shaun Murphy.
During the 2019 season, he has won ten matches and compiled ten century breaks. Ding reached the semifinals in the Ladbrokes Players Tour Championship. His return to the World Championship is anticipated in January.
He also beat the world's top 16 players. He beat Joe Perry, Mark Williams and James Cahill. He even made seven centuries at the Shangai Masters semi-finals.
At the age of 18 he won the Chinese National Championship. This made him the youngest player in the World to have six maximum breaks. After that, his ranking increased by seven spots to become the ninth-best snooker player in the world.
Ding was still in the top 16 positions. Ding fell from the top 16 eventually. Ding has been a prominent figure in Asian snooker throughout his career.