Ding Junhui also known to the world as Enter the Dragon, has been one of the most successful players in snooker. He has won 14 major tournaments during his career, and has reached the final of two World Championships. He is actually considered the greatest Asian player of all time.
His father, a passionate snooker fan, introduced the Chinese pro snooker player to the game when he was eight years old. As a kid, he went to Shanghai's national snooker team and has been a major success there.
In 2007, Ding became the youngest player in history to make a televised 147 break. Ding won the IBSF World Under-21 Championship the following year. He won this title for the first time and was ranked nineth in the world at the conclusion of the 2006/07 season.
Ding has won 14 major ranking titles in his career. Ding is also a former three-time UK Champion. Ding began playing professionally at sixteen years old and has recorded more than 500 century breaks during his entire career. Unfortunately, Ding's absences in recent times have had a detrimental impact on his match-sharpness. Ding is a popular Chinese social media user.
Ding reached 18 years of age and reached the China Open final. After that, he became the first player not from Great Britain or Ireland to win an international ranking title. He also defeated Marco Fu in his first all Asian final.
Ding's status as the top ranked snooker player has been lost despite the success of his country. His career has seen a decline over the past six year. He currently ranks 9th in the world. Since 2017, he has not been in a major ranking event.
However, the 34-year-old has a strong resume. He has won nearly $5 million in major tournaments. He won five ranking events tournaments in 2013-14 and made it to semifinals of Ladbrokes World Grand Prix. But he lost to Barry Hawkins and Shaun Murphy in the quarter-finals.
In 2019, Ding won ten matches, and has compiled ten centuries breaks. Ding also reached the semifinals at the Ladbrokes Players Tour Championship. Therefore, it is probable that Ding will return to January's World Championship.
In addition, he beat 16 of the top world players. He defeated Joe Perry (Mark Williams), James Cahill (James Cahill), and Thepchaiya U-Nooh. In addition, he achieved seven centuries during the semi-finals in the Shangai Masters.
He won the Chinese National Championship at 18 and became the youngest player ever to achieve six maximum break records. After that, his ranking increased by seven spots to become the ninth-best snooker player in the world.
Ding had remained in the top 16 ranks for a while before this. He fell out of the top 16 eventually. Ding has been a regular in the Asian Snooker scene all his life.