Long Zehuang (; born 28 December 1996) is a Chinese snooker player. He has achieved a place on the
World Snooker Tour starting with
2023–24 snooker season
The 2023–24 snooker season is an ongoing professional snooker season with tournaments played between 26 June 2023 and 26 May 2024.
Players
The World Snooker Tour in the 2023–24 season initially involved 130 professional players, but dro ...
.
Career
Before becoming a professional snooker player, Long won
World Junior 9-Ball Championships in 2015 when he was 18 years old.
Long played at the
2018 Haining Open, beating
Liu Hongyu
Liu Hongyu (; born January 11, 1975, in Liaoning) is a female Chinese race walker.
Achievements
See also
*China at the World Championships in Athletics
The People's Republic of China (PRC) first competed at the IAAF World Championships in At ...
before losing to Cai Jianzhong.
He came close to qualifying for the Snooker World Tour in June 2019 but lost the final match in the final round of Q school to
Barry Pinches.
He won a place on the
2023-24 World Snooker Tour by successfully qualifying from the CBSA qualifying events held in Beijing in April 2023. His place was earned with a victory over former professional
Chen Feilong
Chen Feilong (born 4 September 1982) is a former professional Chinese snooker player, playing on the World Snooker Tour from the 2018–19 season.
Career
He has been awarded a two-year professional tour card following his performances on the C ...
in the final qualifying round
2023/24
Long made his debut in a professional draw at the
2023 Championship League held at the
Morningside Arena
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in
Leicester
Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands.
The city l ...
, England from 26 June 2023. He made an auspicious start, going unbeaten in the round-Robin group. He earned a credible draw against
Jackson Page
Jackson Page (born 8 August 2001 in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He is a former European U-21 champion and the former Under-18 World Snooker Champion and in 2017 also became the Under-18 European Snooker Ch ...
, before defeating world number 12
Ali Carter, and young Welshman Ryan Davies, to top the group and progress to the next stage. In the second round-robin he went undefeated, drawing with
Sam Craigie,
Jak Jones
Jak Jones (born 29 July 1993) is a Welsh professional snooker player.
Jones was born in Cwmbran, Wales. He became a professional in 2010 at the age of 16, by winning the 2010 European Under 19 Snooker Championship in Malta.
Career Professio ...
and
Michael White. He secured a place at the latter stages of the
World Open, winning 5-4 against
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh. In the first round of qualifying for the
2024 World Snooker Championship he defeated
Sydney Wilson 10-1.
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Performance and rankings timeline
References
External links
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Living people
Chinese snooker players
1996 births
21st-century Chinese people