Liu Wenwei
Chinese snooker player (born 2003)
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Liu Wenwei (born 8 December 2003) is a Chinese snooker player. He earned a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour, starting with the 2025-26 snooker season.
Career
In March 2024, he was a semi-finalist in the U21 Asia Pacific Regional Snooker Championships in Sydney, Australia, won by Lei Peifan.[2]
Competing at the Asia-Oceania Q School Event 1 in Thailand in May 2025, he earned a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour after he recorded wins over former professionals Tian Pengfei and Manasawin Phetmalaikul before having 4-3 victoires over Nattanapong Chaikul and compatriot Luo Zetao. His eligibility is from the 2025-26 snooker season.[3][4][5][6]
2025–26 season
He started the 2025-26 season in June 2025 in the qualifying round for the Wuhan Open with a creditable 5-4 defeat against established professional Jamie Jones.[7]
He was drawn in the round-robin stage of the 2025 Championship League, a ranking tournament in Leicester in June 2025, against Jackson Page, Jordan Brown and English amateur champion Zachary Richardson.[8] He topped the group after a 3-0 win over Brown, beating Page 3-1 and coming away with a 2-2 draw against Richardson, from 0-2 down.[9] He recorded a 6-4 win over former world champion Luca Brecel in qualifying at the 2025 International Championship.[10]
Performance and rankings timeline
| Tournament | 2025/ 26 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking[nb 1] | [nb 2] | ||||||||
| Ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Championship League | 2R | ||||||||
| Saudi Arabia Masters | 1R | ||||||||
| Wuhan Open | LQ | ||||||||
| English Open | LQ | ||||||||
| British Open | LQ | ||||||||
| Xi'an Grand Prix | LQ | ||||||||
| Northern Ireland Open | LQ | ||||||||
| International Championship | 1R | ||||||||
| UK Championship | LQ | ||||||||
| Shoot Out | 1R | ||||||||
| Scottish Open | LQ | ||||||||
| German Masters | LQ | ||||||||
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | ||||||||
| Players Championship | DNQ | ||||||||
| Welsh Open | 1R | ||||||||
| World Open | 1R | ||||||||
| Tour Championship | DNQ | ||||||||
| World Championship | |||||||||
| 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. | |||
