Xu Yichen
Chinese snooker player (born 1986)
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Xu Yichen (born 21 November 1986) is a Chinese snooker player. He won a two year card place on the World Snooker Tour starting from the 2025-26 snooker season.
Career
Xu Yichen is from Changsha, Hunan Province. On September 18, 2016, he won the 2016 National Amateur Snooker Masters. He also won a wildcard into the 2016 Shanghai Masters.[2] At the Shanghai Masters, also in September 2016, he was on the receiving end of a maximum 147 break as he lost 5-0 to Stephen Maguire.[3]
At the Asia Oceania Q School in May 2025 he defeated Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon of Thailand 4-3 and Pakistan's Babar Masih to win a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour.[4][5][6] His final round win over Masih was described as dramatic, and was only secured on the final black in the deciding frame. His eligibility is from the 2025-26 snooker season.[7][8]
2025–26 season
He was drawn in the round-robin stage of the 2025 Championship League against Matthew Stevens, Ryan Day and compatriot Lan Yuhao.[9] He reached the last-64 of the 2025 Xi'an Grand Prix in September 2025, with a 5-4 win over Jack Lisowski, recovering a 4-1 deficit.[10]
Performance and rankings timeline
| Tournament | 2016/ 17 |
2025/ 26 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking[nb 1] | [nb 2] | [nb 3] | |||||||
| Ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Championship League | NR | RR | |||||||
| Saudi Arabia Masters | NH | 1R | |||||||
| Wuhan Open | NH | LQ | |||||||
| English Open | A | LQ | |||||||
| British Open | NH | 1R | |||||||
| Xi'an Grand Prix | NH | 1R | |||||||
| Northern Ireland Open | A | LQ | |||||||
| International Championship | A | LQ | |||||||
| UK Championship | A | LQ | |||||||
| Shoot Out | A | 2R | |||||||
| Scottish Open | A | LQ | |||||||
| German Masters | A | LQ | |||||||
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||
| Players Championship | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||
| Welsh Open | A | LQ | |||||||
| World Open | A | ||||||||
| Tour Championship | NH | ||||||||
| World Championship | A | ||||||||
| Former ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Shanghai Masters | WR | NR | |||||||
| 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. | |||
