Tian Pengfei

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Tian Pengfei
Tian Pengfei
birthday 16th August 1987 (age 33)
place of birth Dàlián shì
nationality China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
professional 2006–2008, since 2011
Prize money £ 341,978 (as of August 30, 2020)
Highest break 139 (3 ×)
Century Breaks 120 (as of August 30, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 45 (April – May, July 2016)
Current WRL location 54 (as of August 17, 2020)

Tian Pengfei ( Chinese  田鹏飞 , Pinyin Tián Péngfēi ; born August 16, 1987 in Dalian , Liaoning Province ) is a Chinese snooker player .

Career

Tian Pengfei had his greatest success as a youth in 2005 at the IBSF U21 World Championship in Bahrain , where he finished second behind his compatriot Liang Wenbo . Already in the following season of the International Open Series of the amateurs he had his breakthrough when he won two of the eight tournaments and thus qualified for the Snooker Main Tour .

In his very first professional tournament, he managed to get into the round of 32 at the Northern Ireland Trophy , where he failed 4: 5 to Shaun Murphy . At the Asian Games , Tian won two gold medals, in doubles with Ding Junhui and in the team with Ding and Wenbo.

In his second season Tian started as 69th in the world rankings . However, he did not follow any further highlights, mostly he failed in the first qualifying rounds, which is why he had to say goodbye to the Main Tour after two years.

In the following years he did not succeed in returning to the professional circus and Tian was only represented as a wildcard player in the Chinese professional tournaments. There he made his second main round entry at the Shanghai Masters 2009 with a victory over Andrew Higginson . The following year he had his biggest Main Tour success so far when he defeated world number three Ronnie O'Sullivan at the China Open after winning the wildcard round over Mark Davis in the first main round . With the victory in July 2010 at the BTV International in Beijing, he triumphed for the first time at an invitation tournament with prominent professional participation. He beat Stephen Hendry , Stephen Maguire and Ryan Day in the final . In November of that year he defended the team title with Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo at the Asian Games.

In the 2010/11 snooker season , he only got past the first round once in the Players Tour Championship, which is open to amateurs . At the China Open he benefited from a problem his opponent Jimmy White had with the entry visa, so that he moved into the main round of a world ranking tournament as a wildcard player for the third year in a row. At the end of the season he qualified again for the Snooker Main Tour via the second Q-School tournament .

As number 66 in the snooker world rankings, in 2014 he just missed the places that would have secured his stay on the Main Tour. But he was able to qualify for two more years via the Q School's first tournament after the end of the season.

His greatest success to date as a professional player was in October 2015 at the Ruhr Open . For the first time he reached the final of a tournament for world ranking points and defeated, among others, the defending champion Shaun Murphy . The tournament victory went to the Englishman Rory McLeod , who beat Tian 4-2.

successes

  • Finalist of the U21 World Cup 2005
  • Gold medal in doubles at the 2006 Asian Games
  • Gold medal with the team at the Asian Games in 2006 and 2010
  • Gold medal with the team at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 2013

swell

  1. ↑ a b Profile of Tian Pengfei on CueTracker (as of October 31, 2018)
  2. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 344 kB) After The 2016 BAIC Motor China Open. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , April 4, 2016, accessed April 4, 2016 .
  3. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 350 kB) After The 2016 Indian Open. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , July 11, 2016, accessed July 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Player profile at Global Snooker ( Memento from December 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Past Champions - World Under 21 Snooker Championship , International Billiards & Snooker Federation
  6. ^ Pontins International Open Series ( Memento February 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Chris Turner's Snooker Archive
  7. ^ Northern Ireland Trophy 2006 , WWW Snooker
  8. ↑ Ding Junhui Wins Gold Medal in Doha , Life of Guangzhou, December 6, 2006
  9. ^ 15th Asian Games Doha 2006 - Day Six , gettyimages
  10. ↑ Last season's rankings , search at WWW Snooker
  11. ↑ China Open 2010 - Matches , Snookerblog, March 8, 2010
  12. ↑ BTV Cup Beijing International Snooker Challenge , Snookerforum.ro, July 21 to 24, 2010
  13. ^ 2010 Asian Games: India bag silver in Asian Games snooker team event , NDTV
  14. ↑ Visa problems end White's Beijing hopes ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), World Snooker, March 28, 2011
  15. ^ BTV International 2010 ( memento of September 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), list of results, Top-Snooker.com

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Tian is the family name here, Pengfei is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Tian, ​​Pengfei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 田鹏飞 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Dàlián shì , Liáoníng , People's Republic of China