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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1987-04-01 ) 1 April 1987 (age 39) , Yixing , Jiangsu, China
- Sport country
- China
- Nickname
- The Dragon
- Professional
- 2003–present
- Highest ranking
- 1 (December 2014, January–February 2015)
- Current ranking
- 15 (as of 5 May 2026 )
- Century breaks
- 725 (as of 4 May 2026)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Ding
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- China
- Place of birth
- Yixing
- Educated at
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Participant in
- 2004 Masters
- Sport
- snooker
- Country for sport
- China
- Official website
- www.snookerding.com
- Image
- Ding Junhui at Snooker German Masters (DerHexer) 2015-02-05 01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ding Junhui
- date of birth
- 1987-04-01
- century breaks
- 698
- highest break
- 147
- prize money
- 5260394
- competition won
- 2008 Jiangsu Classic
- name in native language
- 丁俊晖
- nickname
- The Dragon
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Encyclopedic overview
Ding Junhui (Chinese: 丁俊晖; born 1 April 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He is the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport. Throughout his career, he has won 15 major ranking titles, including three UK Championships (2005, 2009, 2019), and in 2014, became the first Asian world number one. He has twice reached the final of the Masters, winning once in 2011. In 2016, he became the first Asian player to reach the final of the World Championship.
Ding began playing snooker at age nine and rose to international prominence in 2002 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championship and the Asian Championship. At age 15, he became the youngest winner of the IBSF World Under-21 Championship. In 2003, Ding turned professional at the age of 16. His first major professional successes came in 2005 when he won the China Open and the UK Championship, becoming the first player from outside Great Britain and Ireland to win the title.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ding Junhui” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.