Yu Delu

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Yu Delu
Yu Delu
birthday 11th October 1987 (age 32)
place of birth Shanxi
nationality China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
professional 2011-2018
Prize money £ 264,555
Highest break 140
Century Breaks 45
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 43 (May – July 2018)

Yu Delu ( Chinese  于 德 陆 , Pinyin Yú Délù ; born October 11, 1987 in Shanxi Province ) is a Chinese snooker player .

Career

Beginnings

Yu Delu already attracted attention in his youth. After some national successes in 2005, he got one of the eight wildcards for the China Open . In his first international professional tournament, he defeated the Englishman Andrew Norman and moved into the main round. There he was defeated by Graeme Dott . He was represented in the tournament in the wildcard round for the next five years. In 2007 against Joe Jogia and in 2009 against Rod Lawler he was able to repeat the entry into the main tournament, but Ali Carter and again Graeme Dott prevented each progressing.

He was also a wildcard player for three years in a row at the Shanghai Masters , introduced in 2007, and was able to defeat Englishman Mike Dunn in 2007 before losing to his compatriot Ding Junhui . At the Wuxi Classic he was one of the four invited Chinese players twice, in 2010 he narrowly lost to Ryan Day , in 2011 he defeated Matthew Stevens before Ali Carter beat him.

The successes in addition to the Main Tour included the quarter-finals at the IBSF U-21 World Cup in 2007 and silver and gold at the East Asian Games in 2009 (in regular and six-red snooker ).

Professional years

Despite these achievements, Yu Delu failed to qualify for the Snooker Main Tour on a regular basis . In 2011, however, he got one of the four WPBSA tour wildcards . In qualifying for the first ranking tournament of the season, the Australian Goldfields Open 2011 , he scored three wins, including over Joe Swail and Joe Jogia . In qualifying for the German Masters 2012 , he defeated the top 20 player Jamie Cope and reached the final round of the tournament, where he first survived the wildcard round and also beat Ding Junhui in the first round and thus made it to the second round. He was also very successful at the Players Tour Championship and reached the quarterfinals of the second and fourth tournaments with victories over several top 50 players. In the last three tournaments, including the World Cup , he reached the fourth qualifying round. He finished the season in 58th place in the world rankings.

In the 2012/13 season he could not quite repeat his successes, but he continued to collect points and temporarily advanced to 46th place. A narrow 9:10 defeat by Mark King at the 2013 World Snooker Championship in the final qualifying round prevented his first entry into the Crucible Theater . The following year he initially only convinced at the Shanghai Masters , where he reached the main tournament and lost just under 4: 5 to Shaun Murphy . Then he reached a semi-finals for the first time at the PTC tournament in Dongguan . In the PTC final , he then defeated Liang Wenbo and Ronnie O'Sullivan and only lost in the quarter-finals to eventual winner Barry Hawkins . He then reached the second round at the China Open .

The 2014/15 season was again not very successful. The best result was the quarter-finals at the Yixing Open 2014 , which was part of the Players Tour Championship. At the 2014 World Cup , he failed for the third time in the round of 48. The following season, he defeated reigning World Champion Stuart Bingham in Round 2 of the 2015 International Championship before he was eliminated. He only got further at the Welsh Open , where O'Sullivan stopped him in the round of 16. Otherwise he never got past the second round in any tournament, which caused him to lose ground in the world rankings. As 63rd, he just managed to qualify for the Main Tour for the following year.

Season 2016/17

The 2016/17 season started for Yu with a 1: 4 defeat against Sean O'Sullivan in qualifying for the Riga Masters and he also lost in qualifying at the Indian Open , this time with 2: 4 to Duane Jones . His first win of the season was the World Open , where he defeated Ian Preece 5-3 and then retired from the tournament. At the Paul Hunter Classic he lost to Michael White in round 1 and in qualifying for the Shanghai Masters he lost 3-5 to Ian Preece. At the European Masters he got through the qualification without a fight because Ding Junhui gave up. In the further course of the tournament he defeated Zhao Xintong before losing to Alfie Burden . At the English Open he lost 4-1 to Rod Lawler and in qualifying for the International Championship he lost 6-1 to Ross Muir . At the Northern Ireland Open he defeated Ding Junhui 4-2, but then lost 4-1 to Robbie Williams . At the UK Championship he lost after a 6: 3 win over Nigel Bond and a 6: 4 win over the then reigning world champion Stuart Bingham with 1: 6 against Luca Brecel . He got even further at the Scottish Open : He defeated Josh Boileau , Mark Joyce , Daniel Wells and Sean O'Sullivan 4-3 each and Liang Wenbo 5-4 before he was defeated 6-1 by Marco Fu in the semi-finals . At the German Masters in Berlin he defeated Peter Lines 1: 5, but lost 3: 5 to Stuart Bingham in the final qualifying round. Due to his success, he was able to qualify, albeit narrowly, for the World Grand Prix , where he lost 4-2 to Ding Junhui in the first round. At the Welsh Open he lost 4-0 to Robert Milkins in the first round . He reached the main round of the China Open with a 5-0 win over Hammad Miah , but then lost 3: 5 to Michael White . He narrowly missed the main round of the World Snooker Championship after a 10: win over Itaro Santos and a 10: 7 against Robbie Williams by a 7: 10 defeat against Martin Gould . Delu finished the season as the fifth best Chinese player in world number 47 .

Season 2017/18

The next season started for Yu with a 3-5 loss in qualifying for the China Championship against Cao Yupeng . At the Paul Hunter Classic he defeated Stuart Bingham 4-0 before losing to Craig Steadman 3-4 . At the Indian Open he defeated Ian Burns 4-2 in qualifying and Robert Milkins 4-3 before he was eliminated 3-4 against Liam Highfield . He reached the main round of the World Open with a 5: 2 against Zhang Yong , but he lost 4: 5 to Joe Perry . At the European Masters he lost 4-1 to Michael Georgiou in qualifying , and at the English Open he lost 4-4 to Mark Joyce in the first round . The main round of the International Championship he reached thanks to a 6-2 win over Lü Haotian , but he lost in the first round 4-6 against Mark Williams . In contrast, the main round of the Shanghai Masters - in qualifying he had beaten Sean O'Sullivan - went better: He defeated Ryan Day 5: 4 and lost in the round of 32 with 3: 5 to Kurt Maflin . The Northern Ireland Open ended for him in the second round with a 3-4 loss to Noppon Saengkham after he defeated Craig Steadman 4-1 in the first round. At the UK Championship he defeated Ian Preece in the first round and lost 4-6 to Kyren Wilson in the second . He also reached the second round of the Scottish Open - after beating Lee Walker 4-2 - where he lost 4-2 to Zhou Yuelong . He won the qualifying games for the German Masters 5: 0 against Jamie Rhys Clarke and 5: 2 against Jimmy White , but he was eliminated in the main tournament with 4: 5 against Joe Perry . At the Welsh Open , he achieved his best result of the season when he made it to the quarterfinals: He defeated Billy Joe Castle and Oliver Lines 4: 2, Ben Woollaston 4: 0 and Liang Wenbo 4: 1 and finally lost 2: 5 to Gary Wilson . At the Gibraltar Open he lost after victories over Louis Heathcote , Thor Chuan Leong (both 4-1) and Jamie Cope (4-2) in the round of 16, where he lost 4-1 to the eventual finalist Cao Yupeng. He missed the China Open with a 5-6 defeat in qualifying to Duane Jones . After a 10: 8 win over Sean O'Sullivan in the first qualifying round of the Snooker World Championship , he lost against the eventual round of 16 Jamie Jones with 7:10. He finished the season in world number 43 .

Lock

Yu Delu was banned from the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association from December 1, 2018 until February 24, 2029 due to match- fixing in several cases .

swell

  1. ↑ Yu Delu. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , January 11, 2015, accessed July 25, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Career-total Statistics for Yu Delu. Professional. In: CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed October 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Player profile at Global Snooker ( Memento from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Profile ( memento of April 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Top147.com (Chinese), March 26, 2007
  5. ^ Result list of the U-21 World Cup 2007 , Cue Sports India
  6. ↑ Billiard results East Asian Games 2009 (PDF file; 182 kB), Asian Pocket Billiard Union
  7. ↑ Ron Florax: Yu Delu - Season 2016-2017 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, 2017, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  8. ↑ World Rankings. WPBSA , May 2, 2017, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Ron Florax: Yu Delu - Season 2017-2018 - Professional Results. CueTracker.net, 2018, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  10. ↑ World Rankings. WPBSA , May 7, 2018, archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .
  11. ↑ WPBSA statement. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , December 1, 2018, accessed December 1, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Yu Delu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 于 德 陆 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Shānxī Province , People's Republic of China