Xu Si

Xu Si
birthday	24th January 1998 (age 22)
place of birth	Jiexi , Guangdong
nationality	People's Republic of China
professional	since 2017
Prize money	£ 80,500 as of August 31, 2020
Highest break	145 ( International Championship 2016 )
Century Breaks	14 (as of August 31, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-
World rankings
Highest WRL place	71 ( July-August 2018 )
Current WRL location	110 (as of August 17, 2020)

Xu Si ( Chinese  徐 思 , Pinyin Xú Sī ; born January 24, 1998 in Jieyang ) is a Chinese snooker player from Dongguan .

Career

Xu Si was born in Jiexi County, Jieyang Metropolis . He started playing snooker in 2009, and just a year later, at the age of 11, he won his first national youth tournament. He received his education in Dongguan , where Ding Junhui was also at home.

In 2013, at the age of 15, he took part in the Players Tour Championship open to amateurs for the first time . The following year he first attracted attention at the Haining Open when he defeated two professionals with Andrew Pagett and Noppon Saengkham and finished in the last 32. After two more individual tournaments the following year, the PTC tournaments were discontinued. So he got his next chance in professional snooker again at the World Open 2016 . With a wildcard he got the opportunity to qualify for the main tournament, which he also managed with a win over James Wattana . A little later he was even more successful at the International Championship , where he came back to the main tournament and then in round 1 the world number 14. Mark Williams defeated 6-5. For the second time he was among the last 32.

Two months earlier, Xu Si had competed at the U21 World Cup in Belgium. There he defeated two players, Kacper Filipiak and Alexander Ursenbacher , who had already been professionals. The 6: 5 victory over Ursenbacher in the final, after 3: 5 deficit, brought him the title of Junior World Champion. It also meant qualification for the Snooker Main Tour for the next two seasons from 2017.

successes

• U21 world champion : 2016

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1. ↑ Profile of Xu Si at CueTracker (as of August 9, 2018)
2. ↑ 去 英国 打 职业 赛 1 年 要 30 万 18 岁 斯诺克 新星 犯难 , Sina , October 13, 2016
3. ↑ 徐 思  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Xu Si) in the Chinese Snooker Youth Series, as of July 12, 2016, accessed on May 26, 2017  
4. ↑ IBSF Snooker Championships U21 - Mol / Belgium 2016 (results), IBSF, August 2016
5. ↑ 世青赛 ： 徐 思 绝杀 瑞士 新星 夺冠 获 两年 职业 资格 (Junior World Championship), CBSA, August 26, 2016

Web links

Commons : Xu Si  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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