Ding Junhui

Ding Junhui is a pro snooker player. Ding Junhui is regarded as the top Asian player competing in the professional leagues. He has succeeded in impressing the local players and viewers in the UK despite being an alien.

Ronnie O’Sullivan, who is regarded as the best snooker player of all time, Peter Ebdon, Stephen Hendry, and many other players have been defeated by Junhui.

Early Years and Early Career

Ding Junhui was born in Yixing, Wuxi, China, on April 1st, 1987. He was the sole child of his mother, Ding Wenjun, and father, Chen Xijuan (as far as we are aware).

Junhui’s father, a snooker fanatic, introduced him to the sport when he was just eight years old.

Ding’s father used to accompany him to the neighborhood pool club so that he could practice and compete against a pro.

Ding seized the opportunity to play against the professional one day when his father was preoccupied with other things; by the time his father arrived, Ding had already won the match.

His parents discovered their son was a snooker prodigy at that precise moment. After that, his parents gave him their full support as he pursued his dream of being a professional snooker player.

Ding’s father took him to see the Shanghai Chinese national snooker team when he was nine years old.

His father convinced his mother to sell their supermarket and home business since they were not financially stable.

The family relocated to Dongguan in Guangdong after Ding’s snooker career, where he postponed his official education to concentrate on snooker.

He used to train for eight hours a day when he was 11 years old.

When it came time for him to play in the major leagues, all of his hard work finally paid off. Ding became one of the finest players in China by the age of 15 after winning local and national contests.

Net Worth

Ding Junhui’s entire net worth is thought to be around $10 million, according to our analysts. Including all the significant events he has won, Ding has earned about $5 million.

He makes a sizable sum of money from minor league play in addition to his sizable tournament earnings, and let’s not forget that he is the top player in Chinese snooker.

Despite having spent his entire life devoted to snooker, he is not a stupid person.

In order to provide a better future for his family, he has made some wise decisions and invested his earnings.

Facts of Ding Junhui

Career

He participated in the Asian Under-21 Championship and the Asian Championship in 2002 when he was only 15 years old, and he won both events.

At age 15, he became the youngest snooker player to ever win the IBSF World Under-21 Championship, which he also won the same year.

He started playing snooker professionally a year later, in 2003. But he didn’t win his first snooker championship as a professional until 2005.

Ding also won the China Open and the UK Championship in 2005. It’s uncommon for someone to take pride in winning one of the triple crowns (UK Championship) at the age of 18.

Ronnie O’Sullivan, who won the UK Championship at age 17, held the record; Ding was just one year away from breaking it.

He also won the Northern Ireland Trophy in 2006, bringing his total number of victories to three, making him the second player to do so before turning 20. John Higgins is the only other player to accomplish this.

The following year, Junhui enrolled at Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a business administration and management major.

After winning the Northern Ireland Trophy in 2006, Ding had a blast, but his winning streak came to an end when he played Ronnie O’Sullivan in 2007.

Ding and Ronnie The Magician squared off in the 2007 Masters finals. Ding suffered a heartbreaking defeat as a result of Ronnie’s 10-3 victory over him.

Following the 2007 Masters defeat

The star of the east, however, was unfazed by this; he continued to compete and has now won 14 major championships overall.

He defeated Stephen Maguire with a score of 10-6 to win the 2019 UK Championship, the most recent ranking victory.

The only Asian player to ever make it to the World Championship finals, Ding faced Mark Selby back in 2016. With a score of 14–18, Mark won the championship.

Ding is also recognized for this break; he has a total of 6 record-breaking breaks (147), and he has made more than 400-century breaks.

He held the world’s No. 1 snooker player ranking from December 2014 to February 2015 during that time. He is also the only Asian to ever hold the top spot.

In his birthplace of Yixing, Ding won the Chinese National Championship during the 2007–2008–2009 season. With a one-point advantage, 5-4, he was able to defeat Cao Xinlong.

Ding made his first maximum break (147) when competing against Anthony Hamilton at the 2007 Masters. Additionally, it marked the competition’s first maximum break since 1984.

He became the youngest player to ever make a televised maximum break with the 147-point break. He was the second-youngest player after his appearance in that year’s Master finals.

Even though he won the opening two frames, things became worse from there. Ronnie won the contest by outplaying Ding.

The match was a best of 19 frames, however, Ding thought it was a best of 17 frames and gave up in the 12th round with a score of 8-3.

He thought he had lost after the 12th round and fled the table in tears, but he still had a chance because it was a 19-frame match rather than the 17 he had thought it was.

He made a mistake there that cost him the title of Master.

He was defeated in the opening round of his following two ranking competitions after his defeat in the Master.

In the opening round of the Malta Cup, the Chinese-born player was defeated by Stephen Maguire.

Similar to that, he was defeated by Jamie Cope in the Welsh Open’s opening round. He began his 2008–2009 season with a bang, defeating Mark Selby at the Jiangsu Classic by a score of 6–5.

Seasons 2015 and 2016

Ding suffered a string of defeats prior to competing in the world championship competition. He was defeated by Kyren Wilson in the Shangai Masters quarterfinals.

Similar to this, he was eliminated in the second round of the 2015 International Championship after losing to amateur player Adam Duffy.

He expressed his rage over it and his displeasure with the York Barbican’s playing conditions.

Additionally, he was defeated by amateur snooker Adam Duffy in the first round of the 2015 UK Championship. Think about a complete amateur defeating the best nine players in the world.

The same thing transpired once more. In the first round of the German Master, Stuart Bingham defeated Ding instead of Adam, knocking him out of the tournament.

He was defeated by Neil Robertson in the quarterfinals of the 2016 BetVictor Welsh Open.

produced his sixth career maximum break and a 120 during the game, but he was unable to overcome Neil’s dominance.

In addition, he advanced to the semifinals of the 2016 Ladbrokes World Grand Prix by beating players like Peter Ebdon, Ben Woollaston, and Thepchaiya Un-Nooh before falling to Shaun Murphy.

Barry Hawkins was defeated in the 2016 Ladbrokes Players Tour Championship quarterfinal by a score of 4-2. He also lost to Lee Walker, which prevented him from qualifying for the 2016 China Open (5-1).

Finalist for a world championship

He had to qualify for the World Championship after two seasons without a championship. Ding accomplished this by winning three straight games while dropping just seven frames.

During the three straight victories, he also broke the 400-year barrier.

Ding overcame Mark Williams in the quarterfinals (13-3) and Alan McManus in the semifinals after defeating Martin Gould (10-8) in the first round and Judd Trump (13-10) in the second (17-11).

He made seven-century breaks during the semifinal match against Alan, which is a World Championship record; nonetheless, he shares the honor with Stephen Hendry and Judd Trump.

Ding was the first Asian player to advance to the World Championship finals before losing to Mark Selby (14-18), shattering some records in the process.

Additionally, Ding made 15-century breaks throughout the whole 2016 World Championship, falling only one short of Stephen Hendry’s all-time record.

The UK Championship has only ever been won by Ding, a player from outside the British Isles. The first adolescent to win three titles was John Higgins, and he is the most successful Chinese snooker player.

He practices at the Sheffield World Snooker Academy with Wenbo Liang, with whom he has a close friendship.

The journey of Ding from a timid young boy to a self-assured professional snooker champion is chronicled in the animated anime Dragon Ball No. 1. In 2010, China’s television stations aired the 26-episode series.

The World Taiwan Federation of Fame Hall of Fame has recognized him.

Husband and Children

Outside of his professional snooker career, Ding Junhui keeps a lot to himself. He keeps a lot of things to himself. However, he just traveled to China with his wife and daughter to attend an event.

His daughter’s attractiveness charmed everyone. Everyone complimented her cuteness and the attractiveness of Ding and Apple Zhang, his wife.

The first kid or daughter of the pair was born on August 8, 2018. Ding spends the majority of his time away from his family attending games.

He frequently expressed how much he missed his wife and his young kid.

2014 saw the marriage of Apple and Ding. He hasn’t revealed anything else about his family other than that.

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Links on social media

Although Ding Junhui does not have a large international following, his Chinese social media following is vastly more than his Instagram following.

He primarily shares images of his gorgeous daughter and his daily life on Instagram. He has 20.4k followers on Instagram.