Luo Honghao

Luo Honghao
birthday	31st January 2000 (age 20)
place of birth	Nanchang , Jiangxi
nationality	People's Republic of China
Nickname (s)	The Wind, Thor, Thunder
professional	since 2018
Prize money	£ 109,768 (as of August 31, 2020)
Highest break	139 ( International Championship 2019 , Q)
Century Breaks	26 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	68 ( November 2019– )
Current WRL location	61 (as of August 17, 2020)

Luo Honghao ( Chinese  罗弘昊 , Pinyin Luō Hóng Hào ; born January 31, 2000 in Nanchang ) is a Chinese snooker player from Jiangxi .

Career

Luo learned to play the piano as a child. He was successful and also received awards, but when he later discovered snooker for himself, he gave up music. At the age of 11 he won his first major youth title. At 13, he took part in the Asian Tour , the part of the Players Tour Championship held in China . At the Zhangjiagang Open he made it to round 3 and at the Zhengzhou Open he even made it to the second round. The following year he defeated a local professional for the first time at the Yixing Open with Rouzi Maimaiti and a British player at the Haining Open with the Scot Eden Sharav . In 2015 he succeeded in beating an international professional in Haining : He won just 4: 3 against Chris Wakelin . The tour was then discontinued.

In 2016 Luo took part in the China Snooker Youth Series with 4 tournaments. He won a tournament and reached the semifinals three times. In the same year he also scored his first maximum break at a national tournament. He moved to the World Snooker Academy of the Chinese Federation to improve his game. Several times he got a wildcard for the tournaments of the professional tour in China, but could not use it to move into the main rounds. He also took part in international amateur tournaments. At the U21 World Cup 2017 he defeated the U18 European champion Tyler Rees in the semifinals and lost the final against his compatriot fan Zhengyi 6: 7. At the adult World Cup , he then lost in the quarter-finals to later amateur world champion Pankaj Advani . In the WSF Championship , which was newly introduced in 2018 , he defeated Jamie Clarke 4-0, moved into the final 4-3 over Polish ex-professional Kacper Filipiak and won the title 6-0 over compatriot Adam Stefanów . With this he qualified for the next two seasons of the professional tour at the age of 18.

Then he got a wildcard for the China Open and moved into the main round of a professional tournament for the first time with wins over Basem Eltahhan and Stuart Carrington . In Round 1 in Beijing he managed a 6: 4 victory over the world number 15. Anthony McGill . A 6: 5 over Duane Jones he moved into the last sixteen, where he was finally defeated by Tom Ford .

In the 2018/19 season he moved to Siegen a. a. over Marco Fu and Robbie Williams in the main round of the World Cup , where he in the first round against Shaun Murphy lost with 00:10

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1. ↑ Profile of Luo Honghao on CueTracker (as of October 31, 2018)
2. ↑ Luo Honghao Wins WSF Championship , David Caulfield, SnookerHQ, March 25, 2018

Web links

• Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)
• Luo Honghao 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. Luo is the family name here, Honghao is the first name.