Born | 22 September 2006 |
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Sport country | China |
Professional | 2024- |
Best ranking finish | Last 32 (2023 Wuhan Open) |
Gong Chenzhi is a Chinese snooker player. In 2024, he won a place on the World Snooker Tour from the 2024–25 snooker season.
In June 2023, Gong beat three-time Women’s World Champion Ng On Yee 4-0 at the Asia-Oceania Q School in Bangkok.[1]
He reached the semi-finals at the 2023 CBSA Zhang Jiagang Youth Event Under-21 tournament. He was awarded a wildcard for the 2023 Wuhan Open.[2] At the event he defeated Daniel Womersley and Jordan Brown.[3] He was then beaten 4-5 by compatriot He Guoqiang.[4] At the 2023 Shanghai Masters in September 2023, he played Iranian top-16 player Hossein Vafaei and lost 6-1.[5]
Awarded a wildcard into the 2023 International Championship in Tianjin in November 2023, he was defeated by compatriot Wang Xingzhong 5-6, who at 12 years-old, became the second youngest player to ever compete at a ranking event, after Liam Davies at the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out.[6]
At the WSF Junior Snooker Championship held in Albania in February 2024, he reached the final before being defeated by Hungarian Bulcsú Révész.[7][8]
In qualifying for the 2024 World Snooker Championship he was defeated by veteran Rod Lawler 10-7.[9]
Through his performances on the CBSA China Tour he earnt a place on the World Snooker Tour from the 2024–25 snooker season.[10]
Tournament | 2023/ 24 |
2024/ 25 | |||||||
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Ranking[nb 1] | [nb 2] | [nb 3] | |||||||
Ranking tournaments | |||||||||
Wuhan Open | 2R | ||||||||
International Championship | LQ | ||||||||
World Grand Prix | DNQ | ||||||||
Players Championship | DNQ | ||||||||
World Open | LQ | ||||||||
Tour Championship | DNQ | ||||||||
World Championship | LQ | ||||||||
Non-ranking tournaments | |||||||||
Shanghai Masters | 1R |
Performance Table Legend | |||||
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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 |