Li Yan (snooker Player)
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Li Yan (; born September 17, 1992) is a former professional
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player from the
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.


Career


Early career

Li received a wild card for the 2008 Shanghai Masters, losing 1–5 to Anthony Hamilton. At the
2009 Shanghai Masters The 2009 Roewe Shanghai Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 7–13 September 2009 at the Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai, China. Ronnie O'Sullivan won in the final 10–5 against Liang Wenbo. Prize fu ...
, he defeated
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5–4, before losing to Ryan Day in the last 32.


2011/2012 season

Li qualified for the 2011/2012 professional Main Tour as one of four semi-finalists from the second
2011 Q School The 2011 Q School was a series of three snooker tournaments held at the start of the 2011–12 snooker season. An event for amateur players, it served as a qualification event for a place on the professional World Snooker Tour for the following ...
event. As a new player on the tour Li would need to win four matches in order to reach the main stage of the ranking tournaments. He accomplished this in qualifying for the second biggest tournament on the snooker calendar, the
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, with wins over Stuart Carrington,
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,
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and
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. He faced former world champion
Shaun Murphy Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Snooker Championship, 2005 World Championship and has completed the Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murp ...
in the first round of the event and was beaten 3–6. He could not qualify for another tournament for the remainder of the season but did play in all 12 of the PTC events throughout the season reaching, but not progressing past, the last 16 on three occasions. Li finished the season ranked world number 67, just outside the top 64 who retain their places on the tour. However, due to being ranked 43rd on the PTC
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he secured one of the eight spots for the highest non-qualified players to play in the 2012/2013 season.


2012/2013 season

Li only won two matches in ranking event qualifiers in the 2012/2013 season. His best results in the minor-ranking
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events were last 16 losses in the third Asian PTC and the fourth European Tour Event, to
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and Rory McLeod respectively. He lost seven consecutive games after this, before beating
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10–7 in the first round of World Championship Qualifying, but his season was ended when he lost 10–2 to Jimmy Robertson in the following round. Li dropped 17 places in the rankings during the year to finish it at world number 84.


2013/2014 season

The first ranking tournament Li could qualify for in the 2013/2014 season was the Indian Open by beating
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4–2. He then edged out Jeff Cundy 4–3 to record his first ever win in the main draw of a ranking event, before being thrashed 4–0 by
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. Li also qualified for the
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and World Open during the season, losing to compatriots
Liang Wenbo Liang Wenbo ( zh, s=梁文博; born 5 March 1987) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. During his playing career, he won one ranking title at the 2016 English Open, twice won the World Cup for China in 2011 and 2017 with teammate ...
and
Ding Junhui Ding Junhui (; 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 ...
in the first round. He won more than one match in an event for the only time this season in the
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qualifiers by defeating Elliot Slessor 10–5,
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10–3 and
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10–8, to be just one win away from reaching
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for the first time, but he was thoroughly outplayed by
Xiao Guodong Xiao Guodong (; born 10 February 1989) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2007 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championships. He won his first ranking event 17 years after first turning professional at the 202 ...
in a 10–1 loss. The result ensured Li would not be among the top 64 in the world rankings who keep their places on the snooker tour as he was ranked number 86 and so he played in Q School in an attempt to earn his place back. Li lost in the last 128 of the first event and the last 32 of the second to confirm his exit from the tour.


2014/2015 season

Li entered the three
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events during the 2014/2015 season, but was knocked out in the first round of each. He again entered Q School, but could not win a match in either of the events, losing 4–3 to both Daniel Wells and Jamie Clarke.


2015/2016 season

Li only played in the
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and was eliminated 4–1 in the first round by
John Higgins John Higgins (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 33 ranking titles, placing him in third position on the List of snooker players by num ...
.


Performance and rankings timeline


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Yan 1992 births Living people Chinese snooker players 21st-century Chinese sportsmen