1. Liang Wenbo is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
22 Facts About Liang Wenbo
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Liang Wenbo made 292 century breaks in professional competition, including three maximum breaks, and reached a career high of 11th in the snooker world rankings.
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Liang Wenbo finished 104th out of 168 competitors, accumulating 2150 points.
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Liang Wenbo won the 2005 IBSF World Under-21 Championship, for which he received a wildcard nomination to the Main World Snooker Tour despite not qualifying directly because not all of the players that were eligible took their places.
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Liang Wenbo ended his debut season on the professional tour ranked 78th, a position that would not guarantee a place in the following season's tour; however, he had finished inside the top 8 of the one-year ranking list of those who had not qualified, which gave him a place on the main tour for the next season.
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At the Grand Prix, Liang Wenbo came out on top of his qualifying group, above more experienced players such as Gerard Greene and Barry Pinches.
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Liang Wenbo finished the season in 66th place, just outside the top 64.
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At the 2008 World Snooker Championship, Liang Wenbo was the third Chinese player to qualify for the main draw, defeating Ben Woollaston, Rod Lawler, David Gilbert, and Ian McCulloch in the qualifying rounds.
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Liang Wenbo's run to the quarter-finals of the World Championship gained him 5,000 ranking points, as he finished 40th in the world at the end of the season.
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Liang Wenbo reached the main draw of the 2008 Grand Prix by winning two qualifying matches, but then succumbed to O'Sullivan in the first round of the main draw.
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Liang Wenbo lost in qualifying for both the 2012 Wuxi Classic and the Shanghai Masters to Rod Lawler.
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Liang Wenbo failed to qualify for the next two events but won two matches to enter the main draw of both the 2013 Welsh Open and the China Open.
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Liang Wenbo had a very consistent season in the Players Tour Championship series as he advanced to, but not past, the last 16 in five of the ten events.
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Liang Wenbo did not drop a single frame in defeating both Cao Xinlong and Gerard Greene at the 2015 Welsh Open, but was then the victim of a whitewash by John Higgins in the third round.
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Liang Wenbo became the second player from mainland China to win a ranking event and thanked O'Sullivan for his help.
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Liang Wenbo was the highest-ranked player not to make the main tournament.
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Liang Wenbo reached the semi-final of the single- tournament, the 2022 Snooker Shoot Out, where he lost to winner Hossein Vafaei.
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At the invitational version of the 2022 Championship League, Liang Wenbo won group one and qualified for the last four during the Winner's Group.
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Liang Wenbo returned to competition at the 2022 British Open qualifiers.
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In December 2011, Liang Wenbo joined Romford-based snooker academy and management team Grove Leisure.
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Liang Wenbo is married to Chen Xuejiao, and the couple have one child.
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In 2020, prior to the World Grand Prix, Liang Wenbo had pledged to donate any money he would receive at the tournament to the Huizhou Red Cross in response to the coronavirus outbreak in China.