Marco Fu

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Marco Fu
Marco Fu
birthday 8th January 1978 (age 42)
place of birth Hong Kong
nationality Hong KongHong Kong Hong Kong
professional since 1998
Prize money £ 2,663,876 (as of August 27, 2020)
Highest break 147 (4 ×)
Century Breaks 501 (as of August 27, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories 3
Minor tournament victories 1
World rankings
Highest WRL place 6 (Nov. – Dec. 2013)
Current WRL location 50 (as of August 17, 2020)
Marco Fu during one of his typical powerful strokes with the help of the "bridge hand"

Marco Fu Ka-Chun ( Chinese  傅家俊 , Pinyin Fù Jiājùn , Jyutping Fu 6 Gaa 1 zeon 3 ; born January 8, 1978 ) is a snooker player from Hong Kong .

Career

Beginnings as a professional

Fu made his professional debut in 1998. In the same year he reached the final of the Grand Prix , in which he was defeated by Stephen Lee . In October 2000 he played the 39th official maximum break in snooker history in the game against Ken Doherty at the Scottish Masters . In the world rankings he worked his way up quickly, in the 2000/01 season he was already number 15. Since then he has always been among the top 32 in the world rankings.

Season 2005/06 to 2011/12

At the World Snooker Championship in 2006 he reached the semi-finals after defeating Stephen Maguire and ex-world champion Ken Doherty, among others . There he was defeated by Peter Ebdon, despite two century breaks and a strong catch-up (he equalized a 9:15 deficit) by just 16:17.

On December 13, 2007, Marco Fu played in the quarter-finals of the UK Championship against Mark Selby with 77 minutes, the longest frame ever to be televised from a world rankings tournament. In the following year, Fu reached the final of the same tournament, where he lost again very narrowly to Shaun Murphy with 9:10 .

Until 2007 he did not succeed in participating in a final in a world ranking tournament. In the 2007/08 season he again celebrated his greatest career success so far at the Grand Prix. He won the title with a 9-6 final win over Ronnie O'Sullivan in Aberdeen. As a result, he climbed to 8th place in the world rankings for the 2009/10 season .

In the two following seasons he showed a little weaker performance, so that he fell out of the top 16 again. However, he managed his second maximum break in qualifying for the Haikou World Open 2012 .

2012/13 season

At the third tournament of the PTC Tour 2012 he once again made it into a final. On the way there he defeated four top ten players before losing to Rod Lawler in the final .

At the German Masters 2013 he was able to play his way back to the final, but lost to Allister Carter 6: 9. At the Australian Goldfields Open he finally achieved his second triumph in a full ranking tournament. In the final he defeated local hero Neil Robertson 9: 6.

Season 2014/15 to 2016/17

In January 2015, Fu played the third maximum break of his career at the Masters in the round of 16 against Stuart Bingham .

In December 2015 he scored his fourth maximum break in the round of 64 against Sam Baird at the Gibraltar Open . He eventually reached the final of the tournament and won his only title on the Players Tour Championship with a 4-1 win over Michael White .

At the Snooker World Championship in 2016 , after victories over Peter Ebdon , Anthony McGill and Barry Hawkins, he reached a World Championship semi-final for the second time, where he was defeated by Mark Selby at 15:17 in a very long and balanced game until 15:15.

In December 2016, he was in the final of a ranking tournament at the Scottish Open for the fifth time in his career. After a 1: 4 deficit he defeated John Higgins 9: 4 and won his third rankings title.

Personal

Marco Fu wears glasses, but mostly uses contact lenses at tournaments.

successes

Ranked tournaments

Invitation tournaments

Amateur tournaments

Maximum breaks

Web links

Commons : Marco Fu  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile of Marco Fu at CueTracker (as of August 17, 2018)
  2. ↑ 100+ Centuries - Snooker Info (as of August 16, 2018)
  3. ↑ World Rankings after the International Championship 2013 (PDF; 265 kB) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . November 4, 2013. Archived from the original on December 10, 2014. Retrieved on November 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ World Rankings after the Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup (ET6) 2013 (PDF; 266 kB) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . November 11, 2013. Archived from the original on November 26, 2013. Retrieved on November 13, 2013.
  5. ↑ World Rankings after the Antwerp Open (ET7) 2013 (PDF; 265 kB) In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . November 18, 2013. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014. Retrieved on November 20, 2013.
  6. ↑ a b Chris Turner: Maximum Breaks. Officially Recognized Maximum Breaks made in Professional Competition. (No longer available online.) In: Chris Turner's SNOOKER ARCHIVE. Archived from the original on February 21, 2013 ; accessed on August 13, 2015 .
  7. ↑ a b 2012 World Open. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed August 15, 2015 .
  8. ↑ a b Fu Makes Magical Maximum . In: worldsnooker.com . World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . January 11, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Fu is the family name here, Ka-Chun Marco is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Fu, Marco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fu, Ka-chun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1978