Yu Delu

Yu Delu
于德陆

Yu Delu at the 2011 Paul Hunter Classic
Born October 11, 1987 (1987-10-11) (age 24)
Shanxi Province, China
Sport country  China
Professional 2011–
Highest ranking 72 (2 months)
Current ranking 73
Highest <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">break</dfn> 137 Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy

Yu Delu (Chinese: 于德陆) (born 11 October 1987) is a professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China.

Yu made his first appearance at the China Open as a wild card in 2006. He defeated Andrew Norman, before losing to Graeme Dott in the last 32. He would be awarded a wild card for every China Open event between 2006 and 2011, and for the first three Shanghai Masters events in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

He was awarded a place on the 2011/2012 professional Main Tour as wildcard by World Snooker. In Yu's first ranking event qualifier, the Australian Goldfields Open he beat Michael White 5–4, Joe Swail 5–1 and Joe Jogia 5–2 before losing in the final qualifying round 5–0 to Ryan Day.

He has made one maximum break during China Snooker Professional Tour in ZhengZhou against Jin Long in 20th September 2009. The maximum made him the first person to score 147 in China Professional Tour. However, it is not recorded by World Snooker Association.

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournaments 2005/
06
2006/
07
2007/
08
2008/
09
2009/
10
2010/
11
2011/
12
Rankings UR UR UR UR UR UR UR[nb 1]
Ranking tournaments
Australian Goldfields Open Not Held LQ
Shanghai Masters NH 1R WR WR A LQ
World Open A A A A A A
UK Championship A A A A A A LQ
German Masters Not Held A
Welsh Open A A A A A A
China Open 1R 1R WR 1R WR WR
World Championship A A A A A A
Non-Ranking Tournaments
The Masters A A A A A A A
Masters Qualifying Event A A A A A Not Held
Premier League Snooker A A A A A A A
Championship League Snooker A A A A A A
Former Ranking Tournaments
Malta Cup[nb 2] A A NR Not Held
Northern Ireland Trophy NR A A A Not Held
Bahrain Championship Not Held A Not Held
Performance Table Legend
LQ lost in qualifying draw #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)
QF advanced to but not past the quarterfinals SF advanced to but not past the semifinals
F advanced to the final, tournament runner-up W won the tournament
DQ disqualified from the tournament A did not participate in 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.
  1. ^ New players on the tour do not have a ranking.
  2. ^ The event run under different names such as European Open (2001/2002-2003/2004) and Irish Open (1998/1999)

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