Chen Zifan

Chen Zifan
birthday	17th September 1995 (age 24)
place of birth	Xi'an
nationality	People's Republic of China
professional	since 2017
Prize money	£ 48,900 as of August 31, 2020
Highest break	140 ( German Masters 2018 , Q)
Century Breaks	14 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	81 ( July – September 2018 )
Current WRL location	105 (as of August 17, 2020)

Chen Zifan ( Chinese  陈 子 凡 , Pinyin Chén Zǐfán ; born September 17, 1995 in Xi'an ) is a Chinese snooker player from Shaanxi .

Career

Chen Zifan began playing snooker at his uncle's billiards club when he was ten. When his great talent showed, he was taken out of regular school in 2006 and received remedial classes. The coach was former professional player Liu Song . In 2013 he had his breakthrough in the Chinese youth sector with first place in the national youth series. The year before, he had already taken part in a Chinese tournament of the Players Tour Championship . At the tournament in Zhangjiagang he made it into round 2. In the 2013/14 season he was in at least the second round of all four tournaments of the Asian Tour, and at the Zhengzhou Open 2013 he even made it to the quarter-finals. Because of his performance, his association gave him a wildcard for the World Open . He won his opening match against Sanderson Lam 5: 3 and was in the main round of a major professional tournament for the first time. At the beginning of the 2014/15 season he repeated this success at the Wuxi Classic by winning a wildcard round against Scott Donaldson . At the Xuzhou Open 2015 he defeated another professional with Ross Muir and reached the second round.

At the end of the following season he tried for the first time to qualify for the professional tour through the Q School , but failed because of Reanne Evans and Tony Drago . At the International Championship 2016 , however, he made the main round for the third time after a wildcard win against Tian Pengfei . In the same year he also took part in the amateur world championship , but retired early against Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon . The second attempt at the Q School he was successful: At the second tournament from May 15 to 20, 2017, he managed direct qualification for the Main Tour and only gave five frames in his six matches. This secured him professional status for two years until 2019.

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1. ↑ Profile of Chen Zifan on CueTracker (as of October 11, 2018)
2. ↑ 陈 子 凡 ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Chen Zifan) from my147.com as of 2013, accessed May 24, 2017 
3. ↑ 小将 陈 子 凡 成为 陕西 首位 世界 斯诺克 职业 球手 , Sohu, May 22, 2017
4. ↑ 陈 子 凡  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Chen Zifan) in the Chinese Snooker Youth Series, as of September 29, 2015, accessed on May 24, 2017  

Web links

Commons : Chen Zifan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)
• Chen Zifan in the Snooker Database (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chen is the family name here, Zifan is the first name.