Liu Hongyu (; born 21 April 2004) is a Chinese snooker player. He won the APBSF Asia-Pacific Championship on 1 May 2023 to qualify for the

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, on a two-year card, starting from the

2023–24 snooker season The 2023–24 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played from 26 June 2023 to 26 May 2024. Players The World Snooker Tour in the 2023–24 season initially involved 130 professional players, but dropped to 129 players. The de ...

Early life

Liu is from

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in the

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

province of China.

Career

In June 2021, at the Chinese national team championship he played as a member of Dongguan Team under coach Jin Di alongside team members Zhao Hanyang and Liang Xiaolong. At the 2022 Q School first event defeated Belgian

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which included a break of 137. He also scored centuries in Q school against Alfie Lee, and a 134 against Andy Milliard.

2022–23 season

In February 2023 he lost in the quarter finals to eventual winner

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at the WSF Championship in

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. During the tournament he had impressed with his high scoring, including breaks of 138 and 133. In April 2023 Liu lost in the final of the first CBSA

qualifying tournament to

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. The following month he won the Asia-Pacific Championship with a 6-1 win in the final against Yuchen Wang to be the APBSF Asia Pacific qualifier on to the World Snooker Tour for the 2023-24 snooker season, on a two-year card.

2023–24 season

He started the 2023-24 season with the 2023 Championship League held at the

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, England from 26 June 2023. With victories over

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and

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, Liu topped his group at the Championship League on his tour debut. In the second stage round-robin, he lost to

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before beating

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and drawing with Daniel Wells to finish as runner-up in the group to Saengkham. He earned another professional win on 17 August 2023, at the

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qualifying in Leicester, with a 4-1 win over

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. He qualified for the

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, held in Germany, but had to pull out of the event when an issue with his visa prevented his travel. In October 2023, at the

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, he came from 3-1 down to defeat former World Champion

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4-3. He followed this up with credible wins over ranking event finalist Joe O'Connor and former snooker shoot-out winner

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before defeating another former world champion Mark Williams to reach his first ranking event quarter-final. He then triumphed over compatriot

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to reach his first ranking semi-final, before losing to

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by 2-6. In December 2023, he recorded a second win of the season over Shaun Murphy, winning 4-1 at the Scottish Open. He qualified for the

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with a 5-0 whitewash over the experienced

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. In the qualifying round of the

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he defeated

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10-3.

2024-25 season

He reached the fourth round of the

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with a 4-1 win over

. At the 2024 English Open in Brentwood in September 2024 he reached the last 64 where he was defeated on a deciding frame by

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. He reached the last-64 at the

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2025-26 season

He started the 2025-26 season in June 2025 in the qualifying round for the

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with a creditable win over established professional Ian Burns. That month, he recorded a 4-0 whitewash win over

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qualifying. He then topped his group in the round-robin stage of the 2025 Championship League against Ian Burns, Patrick Whelan and

Performance and rankings timeline

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Liu, Hongyu Living people 2004 births Chinese snooker players 21st-century Chinese sportsmen People from Taishan, Guangdong