Si Jiahui

Si Jiahui
birthday	11th July 2002 (age 18)
place of birth	Shaoxing , Zhejiang
nationality	People's Republic of China
professional	since 2019
Prize money	£ 17,750 as of August 31, 2020
Highest break	140 ( Welsh Open 2020 )
Century Breaks	8 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	94 ( November – December 2019 )
Current WRL location	102 (as of August 17, 2020)

Si Jiahui ( Chinese  斯 佳 辉 , Pinyin Sī Jiā Huī ; born July 11, 2002 in Shaoxing ) is a Chinese snooker player . In 2019 he qualified for the professional tour .

Career

Si came to snooker through his father, who liked to play billiards himself. At first he played without guidance, but soon outperformed the players around him. In September 2013 he took part in an amateur tournament in Shanghai for the first time. Over time, he played his way into the national youth elite and was one of the top 16 in the Chinese youth championship. Si made big headlines in the first tournament of the national professional tour in 2016 when he beat the Chinese number one, the world-class player Ding Junhui , 4-2 in the opening match. In the following year he was the youngest player to have reached the final of the 6-Red Championship.

International Si entered his early teens only once in appearance when his 13 years with the Haining Open , one for the main tour belonging PTC attended tournament in Asia, but also eliminated the same. In 2019, he joined the Q School in order to qualify directly for international professional business. Already on his first appearance he caused a stir when he won his first four matches to zero and, among other things , beat ex-professional Jamie Curtis-Barrett right from the start . In the semifinals, however, he lost to later qualifier David Lilley . In the second tournament he gave back a few frames and reached the group final, which he lost after 3-0 lead with 3: 4 against Louis Heathcote . In the third tournament , Alexander Ursenbacher , who had just fallen from the Main Tour, turned out to be too strong. But when he reached the group quarter-finals, he was already the best of the Q School Order of Merit , the overall ranking of the tournament without those directly qualified. In this way, at the age of 16, he qualified at the first attempt for the following two seasons of the professional tour.

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1. ↑ Si Jiahui's profile on CueTracker (as of February 16, 2020)

Web links

• Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)
• Si Jiahui 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. Si is the family name here, Jiahhui is the first name.