Li Yan (snooker player)

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Li Yan
Li Yan
birthday 17th September 1992 (age 27)
nationality China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
professional 2011-2014
Prize money £ 42,999
Highest break 132
Century Breaks 8th
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 64 (Jan. – Feb. 2012)

Li Yan ( Chinese  李岩 , Pinyin Lǐ Yán ; born September 17, 1992 ) is a Chinese snooker player .

Career

Li Yan was one of the talentiertesten youth players in China in the years 2007 , 2008 and 2009 , a wildcard for the Shanghai Masters as well as in 2008 and 2009 for the China Open . He was only able to win his opening game once - at the Shanghai Masters 2009 against Gerard Greene ; he was then defeated in the round of 32 but to Ryan Day .

In the second tournament of the Q School he was finally able to earn a place on the Snooker Main Tour for the 2011/12 season. He got off to a very good start and qualified for the main round of the 2011 UK Championship by winning over Stuart Carrington , Andy Hicks , Jack Lisowski and Fergal O'Brien . There he lost to former world champion Shaun Murphy 3: 6. With further good results in the PTC series , he improved to 64th place in the snooker world rankings.

On August 19, 2012, Li played his first match in qualifying for the 2012 International Championship . Despite a century break of 117 points, he lost 5: 6 against his compatriot Zhang Anda .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Li Yan Player Profile . Snooker Database. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Profile of Li Yan at CueTracker (as of May 29, 2014)
  3. ↑ Issued after the Players Tour Championship 2012 - Event 12 (PDF; 112 kB) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . January 9, 2012. Archived from the original on February 27, 2012. Retrieved on January 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ International Championship qualifiers - Centuries . In: worldsnookerdata.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . Archived from the original on August 23, 2012. Retrieved on August 19, 2012.
  5. ↑ International Championship Qualifiers (2012) . Snooker.org. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Li is the family name here, Yan is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Li, Yan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 李岩 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1992