Xiao Guodong

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Xiao Guodong

Xiao Guodung at the 2013 German Masters
Born (1989-02-10) February 10, 1989
Sport country  China
Professional 2007/08, 2009–
Highest ranking 26 (October 2013)[1]
Current ranking 25 (as of 10 February 2014)
Career winnings UK£ 154,885[2]
Highest break 141 (2007 Grand Prix - Qualifying)
Century breaks 56[3]
Best ranking finish Final (2013 Shanghai Masters)
Xiao Guodong
Medal record
Men's Snooker
Asian Indoor Games
Bronze 2007 Macau Singles
Silver 2007 Macau Team
Men's Six-red snooker
Asian Indoor Games
Gold 2009 Ho Chi Minh City Singles
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
Gold 2013 Incheon Singles

Xiao Guodong (Chinese: 肖国栋; pinyin: Xiāo Guódòng, b. 10 February 1989) is a Chinese professional snooker player, who turned professional in 2007 by winning the Asian Under-21 Championships.

Career

2007–2010

He appeared as a wildcard in the 2007 China Open, and beat the then world number 50 Tom Ford 5-3, before losing 0-5 to Matthew Stevens.

In his first ranking tournament, the 2007 Grand Prix he finished 4th in his qualifying group by winning 3 out his 7 matches. In the 2007 Northern Ireland Trophy he beat Leo Fernandez 5-1 and Jimmy White 5-0, before he lost to David Gilbert 2-5.

He lost his first match in the 2007 UK Championship to Kurt Maflin and to the same player in the 2008 China Open qualfiers too. In the Welsh Open he lost to fellow Chinese player Liu Song 2-5.

A victory over Munraj Pal in the 2008 World Championship qualifiers set up a match with David Roe, which he lost 5-10.

He won the Paul Hunter English Open in 2008.

In the 2009 China Open he beat Michael Holt 5-3 in the wild-card round, progressing to the first round proper where he beat fellow Chinese player Ding Junhui 5-3. This victory earned him the biggest match of his career so far, a second round match against Ronnie O'Sullivan. Despite going 1-3 down in the mid-session interval, he battled back in the next frame, where a controversial 28 points were awarded to him from fouls from one snooker, putting himself just one frame behind O'Sullivan at 2-3. Despite losing the following frame, Xiao won a breathtaking black ball game in the 7th frame to again go just one frame behind at 3-4. However, despite pulling himself back into the match, he lost the next frame and consequentally the match, as O'Sullivan made a 96 break.

On 10 July 2009, on the World Snooker website, he was voted in the top 5 players to watch out for in the 2009/2010 season.

2011/2012 season

Xiao had a good season in the Players Tour Championship series of tournaments in the 2011/2012 season. He reached the quarter-finals of Event 1 and Event 6 and went one better in Event 2, where he was knocked out in the last 4 against compatriot Ding Junhui. The results ensured he reached the 2012 Finals by finishing eighteenth in the Order of Merit.[4] He played in the Finals against the advice of doctors as he had broke a bone in his hand three weeks earlier whilst sleeping on it awkwardly, but despite this beat Dominic Dale 4–2 in the first round of the event.[5][6] Xiao then pulled off the result of his career to date by defeating recent UK champion, Judd Trump 4–2 to advance to his first ever ranking event quarter-final, where he was beaten by Andrew Higginson 1–4.[7][5]

Xiao could not qualify for any of the other ranking events during the season, coming closest in the UK Championship, where he lost to Tom Ford in the final qualifying round.[7] He finished the season ranked world number 41, meaning he had risen 23 places during the year.[8]

2012/2013 season

Xiao Guodung at 2013 German Masters

Xiao qualified for the Australian Goldfields Open and the German Masters during the 2012/2013 season, losing in the first round in both to Barry Hawkins and Kurt Maflin respectively.[9] He took advantage of the new Asian Players Tour Championship events by taking part in all three of them. He had his best result in the second event by defeating the likes of Marco Fu and Barry Hawkins to reach the semi-finals, where he lost 2–4 to Stephen Lee.[9] His performances helped him to eighth on the Asian PTC Order of Merit, high enough to qualify for the Finals.[10] There, Xiao reached the quarter-finals for the second successive year with wins over Graeme Dott and Alfie Burden, before losing 1–4 to Neil Robertson.[11] Xiao's season came to an end when he lost 4–10 to Jimmy White in the third round of World Championship Qualifying, but he finished the year ranked world number 37, his highest position to date.[12][13]

2013/2014 season

In his opening match of the season, Xiao defeated Andrew Norman 5–3 to qualify for the 2013 Wuxi Classic in China where he beat Peter Ebdon 5–3 in the first round and Li Hang 5–4 in the second.[14] He then faced John Higgins in the last 16 and was whitewashed 0–5.[15] Xiao could also not pick up a frame in the first round of the Australian Goldfields Open, as he lost 0–5 to Joe Perry.[14] He won three matches to qualify for the Shanghai Masters and once there defeated Yuan Siyun 5–0 in the wildcard round.[14] Xiao took advantage of a poor performance by Stephen Maguire in the first round to beat him 5–2 and then saw off Peter Lines 5–3.[16] He continued his run to make the semi-finals of a ranking event for the first time as he came back from 4–2 down to beat Mark Davis 5–4 citing afterwards his work with Terry Griffiths as being a key factor in his success.[17] In the semis he played Michael Holt who was also making his ranking event semi-final debut and from 3–3 Xiao made a break of 111, added the next frame and then closed the match out 6–3 with a 127 break.[18] He played Ding Junhui in a first all-Chinese ranking final and was beaten 10–6, but the runner-up's cheque of £35,500 is the highest of his career to date and he also broke into the world's top 32 for the first time.[19]

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournaments 2004/
05		 2006/
07		 2007/
08		 2008/
09		 2009/
10		 2010/
11		 2011/
12		 2012/
13		 2013/
14
Rankings[20][nb 1] UR UR UR[nb 2] 84[nb 3] UR[nb 2] 74 64 41 37
Ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic[nb 4] Not Held Non-Ranking LQ 3R
Australian Goldfields Open Not Held LQ 1R 1R
Shanghai Masters Not Held 1R WR LQ LQ LQ LQ F
Indian Open Not Held LQ
International Championship Not Held LQ 2R
UK Championship A A LQ A LQ LQ LQ LQ 3R
German Masters Not Held LQ LQ 1R QF
Welsh Open A A LQ A LQ LQ LQ LQ
World Open[nb 5] A A LQ A LQ LQ LQ LQ
Players Tour Championship Finals Not Held DNQ QF QF
China Open WR 1R LQ 2R LQ LQ LQ LQ
World Championship A A LQ A LQ LQ LQ LQ
Non-ranking tournaments
The Masters A A LQ A A A A A
Variant format tournaments
Shoot-Out Not Held A 1R 1R
Former ranking tournaments
Northern Ireland Trophy NR A LQ A Not Held
Former non-ranking tournaments
Wuxi Classic[nb 4] Not Held A A 1R A Ranking
Performance Table Legend
LQ lost in the qualifying draw #R lost in the early rounds of the tournament
(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)		 QF lost in the quarter-finals
SF lost in the semi–finals F lost in the final W won the tournament
DNQ did not qualify for the tournament A did not participate in the tournament WD withdrew from 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.
R / Ranking Event means an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Event means an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
  1. ↑ From the 2010/2011 season it shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  3. ↑ He was an amateur.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The event ran under the name Jiangsu Classic (2008/2009–2009/2010)
  5. ↑ The event run under different name as Grand Prix (2004/2005–2009/2010)

Career finals

Ranking event finals: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend
World Championship (0–0)
UK Championship (0–0)
Other (0–1)
Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent in the final Score
Runner-up 1. 2013 Shanghai Masters China Junhui, DingDing Junhui 6–10

Amateur wins

  • ACBS Asian Under-21 Championship, 2007
  • Chinese National Championship, 2011

References

  1. ↑ "Issued after the Shanghai Masters 2013" (PDF). worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Xiao Guodong Player Profile". Snooker Database. Retrieved 25 September 2013. 
  3. ↑ "Xiao Guodong - Season 2013/2014". CueTracker - Snooker Database. Retrieved 15 July 2013. 
  4. ↑ "PTC Order of Merit after PTC12". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 29 December 2011. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Xiao Knocks Out Trump". AOL. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2012. 
  6. ↑ "Betfair Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2012)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 14 March 2012. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Xiao Guodong 2011/2012". Snooker.org. Retrieved 30 April 2012. 
  8. ↑ "Official World Ranking List for the 2012/2013 Season". Retrieved 12 May 2012. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Xiao Guodong 2012/2013". Snooker.org. Retrieved 16 April 2013. 
  10. ↑ "Asian Order of Merit after APTC3". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 23 January 2013. 
  11. ↑ "Dafabet Players Tour Championship Finals". Snooker.org. Retrieved 16 April 2013. 
  12. ↑ "Betfair World Championship Qualifiers". Snooker.org. Retrieved 16 April 2013. 
  13. ↑ "Official World Snooker Ranking List For The 2013/2014 Season". World Snooker. Retrieved 28 May 2013. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "Xiao Guodong 2013/2014". Snooker.org. Retrieved 11 July 2013. 
  15. ↑ "Snooker - Robertson and Higgins roar into last eight at Wuxi Classic". Eurosport. Retrieved 11 July 2013. 
  16. ↑ "Trump and Maguire slump to shock defeats". Eurosport. Retrieved 21 September 2013. 
  17. ↑ "Holt And Xiao Make Semi Breakthough". World Snooker. Retrieved 21 September 2013. 
  18. ↑ "Xiao Powers Into Final". World Snooker. Retrieved 21 September 2013. 
  19. ↑ "Ding Beats Xiao In All-Chinese Final". World Snooker. Retrieved 23 September 2013. 
  20. ↑ "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011. 

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