Liang Wenbo

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Liang Wenbo
Liang Wenbo
birthday 5th March 1987 (age 33)
place of birth Zhaodong
nationality China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
Nickname (s) The Fearless
professional since 2005
Prize money £ 1,202,528 as of August 30, 2020
Highest break 147 (3 ×)
Century Breaks 261 (as of August 30, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories 1
Minor tournament victories 1
World rankings
Highest WRL place 11 (Oct. – Nov., Dec. 2016 – Feb., May – Jun. 2017)
Current WRL location 35 (as of August 17, 2020)

Liang Wenbo ( Chinese  梁文博 , Pinyin Liáng Wénbó ; born March 5, 1987 ) is a Chinese snooker player .

Career

In 2005, Liang Wenbo won the IBSF U21 World Championship and was thus one of the most promising talents in Asia. At the Asian Games in 2006 he won the gold medal with the team and the silver medal as an individual player. In 2008 he qualified by winning over Ben Woollaston , Rod Lawler , David Gilbert and Ian McCulloch for the World Cup , his first participation in the finals at a tournament on the Main Tour . In the Crucible Theater he first met the former world champion Ken Doherty , whom he defeated 10: 5. In the second round he defeated Joe Swail 13:12 and moved into the quarterfinals. There he met Ronnie O'Sullivan , against whom he lost 7:13.

After the 2008/09 season - his outstanding result was his entry into the round of 16 of the Northern Ireland Trophy - he was able to improve to the top 32 in the world rankings.

On October 29, 2008, Liang Wenbo played his first maximum break in the third round of qualifying for the Bahrain Championship .

In June 2009, he won his first title in a professional tournament at the Beijing International Challenge , an invitation tournament in Beijing.

At the Shanghai Masters , the first world ranking tournament of the 2009/10 season, he achieved his greatest success to date three months later. With wins over Peter Ebdon , Ali Carter and Shaun Murphy , he made it into the final, in which he had to admit defeat to Ronnie O'Sullivan with 5:10.

In April 2013 he reached the mark of 100 century breaks as the 49th professional snooker player .

In October 2013 he won the Zhengzhou Open, his first tournament in the PTC series, when he defeated his compatriot Lü Haotian 4-0 in the final .

In September 2015 he reached the final of the 6-Red World Championship and was defeated there by the Thai Thepchaiya Un-Nooh with 2: 8. On December 6th he was also in the final of the UK Championship and lost there with 5:10 to Neil Robertson . Then he was in the top 16 of the world rankings for the second time since 2010.

At the 6-Red tournament in 2016 , Liang reached the quarter-finals, where he lost to fellow countryman Ding Junhui . Ding then won the tournament. At the English Open , he reached a ranking tournament final for the third time in his career a month later after defeating world number runner-up Stuart Bingham in the semifinals . Then he also won against number 3 Judd Trump 9: 6 and took his first major Main Tour title. Then he rose to number 12 in the world rankings. After the round of 16 at the International Championship , he reached 11th place, his best position, which he was able to defend until the end of the season.

At the beginning of the snooker season he won the Team World Cup for the second time after 2011 together with Ding Junhui . There were no further successes. At the 2018 World Snooker Championship , he lost 0:10 to Jamie Jones after victories over Rod Lawler and Zhao Xintong . During the 2017/18 season, Liang Wenbo was able to play two maximum breaks. He played the first against Tom Ford at the 2017 English Open , the second against Rod Lawler during qualifying for the World Snooker Championship.

successes

World ranking tournaments

Minor ranking tournaments

Invitation tournaments

  • Beijing International Challenge 2009

Team competitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile of Liang Wenbo on CueTracker (as of August 18, 2018)
  2. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 350 kB) After the 2016 International Championship. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , November 28, 2017, accessed July 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 350 kB) After the 2016 UK Championship. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , December 4, 2016, accessed December 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 350 kB) After the 2016 Scottish Open. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , December 19, 2016, accessed December 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 350 kB) After the 2017 Betfred World Championship. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , May 2, 2017, accessed May 2, 2017 .
  6. ↑ according to World Snooker , other sources cite March 5, 1987, cf. also Wikidata .

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liang is the family name here, Wenbo is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Liang, Wenbo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 梁文博 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH March 5th 1987