Cao Yupeng

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Cao Yupeng
Cao Yupeng
birthday 27th October 1990 (age 29)
place of birth Guangzhou
nationality China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
professional 2011-2018
Prize money £ 297,024
Highest break 147 ( Scottish Open 2017 )
Century Breaks 49
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 38 (April – August 2018)

Cao Yupeng ( Chinese  曹宇鹏 , Pinyin Cáo Yǔ Péng ; born October 27, 1990 in Guangzhou ) is a Chinese snooker player .

Career

Cao Yupeng received as one of the talentiertesten youth players in China in 2009 and 2011 each have a wild card for the China Open . However, he lost his first round game both times (against Stuart Pettman and Kurt Maflin ).

By winning the U21 Asian Cup in 2011, he was finally able to qualify for the 2011/12 Main Tour , on which he made a decent start. At the Shanghai Masters 2011 and the UK Championship 2011 , he won the first two qualifying rounds. His best placement on the PTC series so far was a place among the 32 best at the Warsaw Classic 2011 .

With victories over Kurt Maflin , Dave Harold , Nigel Bond and Tom Ford , he qualified for the finals of the 2012 World Snooker Championship . There he surprisingly defeated the 10th seeded Northern Irishman Mark Allen with 10: 6. So he was in the Crucible Theater for the first time in the round of 16, where he was defeated by Welsh Ryan Day 7:13.

Nevertheless, the points he scored at the end of the season were not enough to stay on the Main Tour. However, Cao received one of the four Asian wildcards and was able to take part in the 2012/13 season. At the Australian Goldfields Open 2012 he made it back to the round of 16 of a ranking tournament, at the International Championship 2012 he was able to repeat the success with a victory over John Higgins , among other things . At the PTC tournament in Yixing 2012 he reached the semifinals, his best tournament result on the Main Tour, and defeated Mark Williams . In Zhengzhou 2012 he reached the quarterfinals. Reaching the round of 32 at the UK Championship 2012 finally earned him just enough points to claim 66th in the world rankings on the professional tour, even though he only won one opening match after that.

At the 4th Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 2013 in Incheon he won the final in the singles against his compatriot and favorite Ding Junhui with 4: 2 and thus received the gold medal.

In the 2013/14 season he started with the quarter-finals at the 2013 Wuxi Classic , his best placement with a full ranking event. At the Shanghai Masters 2013 he reached the round of 32. In three PTC tournaments on the Asian Tour, he made it to the quarterfinals once and twice into the second round. He steadily improved in the world rankings to 46th place by the end of the year and after the round of 16 at the Wuxi Classic 2014 at the beginning of his fourth professional season he reached his best world ranking position with 42nd place . After that, however, he did not get past the second qualifying round in ranked tournaments and the third round in PTC tournaments, so that he lost points again in the two-year standings and ended the season in 60th place.

This continued in the 2015/16 season and from the UK Championship onwards there were only initial defeats. Even the victory against the amateur Rodion Judin at the Snooker World Championship in 2016 could not prevent him from falling to 72nd place in the world rankings and no longer qualifying for the following season. That's why he went straight to the Q School afterwards . At the first tournament he was one of the four group winners and thus received the right to start for two more seasons of the Main Tour.

In the 2017/18 season he played his first maximum break at the Scottish Open and reached the final in the same tournament, where he lost 8: 9 to Neil Robertson in a dramatic game .

On December 1, 2018, the world association WPBSA announced that it would ban Cao Yupeng until November 24, 2020 for triple match fixing.

successes

  • 2013: Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games - Finalist / Gold Medal (Individual)
  • 2017: On December 12th, 2017, he achieved his first maximum break. In the first round of the Scottish Open 2017 against Andrew Higginson .
  • 2017: On December 16, 2017, reaching the final at the Scottish Open with a 6: 4 against Judd Trump ,

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Profile of Cao Yupeng on CueTracker (as of June 3, 2016)
  2. ↑ Centuries by Cao Yupeng in Season 2012-2013. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed July 28, 2015 .
  3. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF) After 2018 China Open. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , April 8, 2018, accessed April 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF) After 2018 Betfred World Championship. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 7, 2018, accessed May 8, 2018 .
  5. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 192 kB) After The 2018 Kaspersky Riga Masters. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , August 1, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Entry about Cao Yupeng at baike.com, accessed June 3, 2018
  7. ↑ Rolf Kalb : Cao were only millimeters missing: Neil Robertson wins title at the Scottish Open. In: eurosport.de . December 18, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ WPBSA statement. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , December 1, 2018, accessed December 1, 2018 .

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Cao is the family name here, Yupeng is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Cao, Yupeng
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 曹宇鹏 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Guangzhou , People's Republic of China