Lu Ning
Born |
Jilin, China[1] | 1 January 1994
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Sport country | China |
Professional | 2014–2016 |
Highest ranking | 94 |
Career winnings | £10,117[2] |
Highest break | 134 (2012 International Championship) |
Century breaks | 7[2] |
Best ranking finish | Last 16 (2012 China Open) |
Lu Ning (Chinese: 魯寧, born 1994 in Jilin) is a former professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China.
Career
Lu's first appearance in a ranking tournament was in the wildcard round of the 2012 World Open, where he defeated 1996 British Open winner Nigel Bond 5–4 in Haikou. He met Mark Selby in the first round and, despite taking the first two frames, Lu lost 3–5.[3] Lu continued to show his talent in the next local ranking tournament, the 2012 China Open. He was awarded a wildcard to compete against Welsh player Jamie Jones, where Lu won 5–3.[4] He produced a tremendous match by knocking out 2005 world snooker champion Shaun Murphy by 5–2, with two centuries.[5] However, in the second round Ali Carter proved to be too tough for the Chinese player, winning 5–1.[6]
In the 2012/2013 season Lu was awarded a place in the wildcard round for five ranking events, losing at this stage in four of them.[7] At the International Championship he beat Barry Pinches 6–5, before losing in the first round 6–4 to Ricky Walden.[7] He played in all three of the new Asian Players Tour Championships, but could not advance beyond the third round in any of them to finish 45th on the Asian Order of Merit.[8]
In July 2013 he became the IBSF Under 21 World Champion, defeating Zhou Yuelong 9–4 in the final.[9] He came through the wildcard round of the Wuxi Classic by beating Adam Duffy 5–3, before losing 5–1 to Matthew Stevens.[10] His Under-21 title earned him a two-year main tour card starting with the 2014/2015 season.[11] He failed to qualify for any ranking events besides the UK Championship and the Welsh Open for which all players on the tour gain automatic entry at the venue stage. Lu lost 6–2 to Stephen Maguire in the first round of the UK and 4–0 to Ricky Walden at the Welsh.[12] He was placed world number 114 after his first season as a professional.[13]
It was a similar story in the 2015/2016 season as Lu only reached the UK Championship and Welsh Open, losing in the first round of both.[14] He was relegated from the tour at the end of the season due to being ranked 101st in the world, well outside of the top 64.[15]
Performance and rankings timeline
Tournament | 2011/ 12 |
2012/ 13 |
2013/ 14 |
2014/ 15 |
2015/ 16 | |||
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Ranking[16][nb 1] | UR | UR | UR | UR[nb 2] | 114 | |||
Ranking tournaments | ||||||||
Australian Goldfields Open | A | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||
Shanghai Masters | A | WR | WR | LQ | LQ | |||
International Championship | NH | 1R | A | LQ | LQ | |||
UK Championship | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | |||
German Masters | A | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||
Welsh Open | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | |||
Players Championship Grand Final[nb 3] | A | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||
China Open | 2R | WR | A | LQ | LQ | |||
World Championship | A | A | A | LQ | LQ | |||
Former ranking tournaments | ||||||||
Indian Open | Not Held | A | LQ | NH | ||||
Wuxi Classic | NR | WR | 1R | LQ | NH | |||
World Open[nb 4] | 1R | WR | A | Not held |
Performance Table Legend | |||||
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LQ | lost in the qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) |
QF | lost in the quarter-finals |
SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament |
DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | #R | withdrew from the tournament |
NH / Not Held | means an event was not held. | |||
NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event. | |||
R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event. | |||
MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event. |
References
- ↑ "Holt Bares Teeth To Escape Zhu". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- 1 2 "Career-total Statistics for Lu Ning - Professional". CueTracker Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "2012 Haikou World Open results". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ↑ "Lu Ning 2011/2012". Snooker.org. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ↑ "Shaun Murphy loses to Lu Ning in China Open first round". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ↑ "2012 China Open results". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- 1 2 "Lu Ning 2012/2013". Snooker.org. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ↑ "Asian Order of Merit 2012/2013". Snooker.org. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ↑ "IBSF Snooker Championships U21 - Beijing China 2013 Knockout draw". IBSF. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
- ↑ "Lu Ning 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- ↑ "Lu Ning crowned World Under-21 Champ". IBSF. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- ↑ "Lu Ning 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
- ↑ "World Rankings After 2015 World Championship". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ↑ "Lu Ning 2015/2016". Snooker.org. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ↑ "Historic Seedings After 2016 World Championship". Snooker.org. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
- ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lu Ning. |
- "Official player profile of Lu Ning". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. "Players Alphabetical" section.
- Lu Ning at CueTracker.net: Snooker Results and Statistic Database