Zhang Yong (; born 21 July 1995) is a

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former professional snooker player.

Career

Prior to turning professional Zhang featured in Asian

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events from 2012 to 2015, as well as being a semi-finalist in the 2015 ACBS Asian Snooker Championship. He made losing wildcard appearances at the 2014 Shanghai Masters and 2015 China Open. Zhang earned a two-year professional

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card for the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons after his performances in the 2014/2015 Asian Tour events, with the highlight being a quarter-final appearance in the 2015 Xuzhou Open where he beat professionals Jimmy Robertson and

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, seeing him finish 25th on the Order of Merit. Zhang won three matches in the early part of the 2015/2016 season, but then lost seven in a row until he beat

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10–7 in the first round of

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qualifying, before losing 10–3 to

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. He qualified for the

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, World Open and Riga Masters but was knocked out in the first round of all of them. Later in the 2016–17 season he qualified for the

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by beating Mike Dunn 5–4 and

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5–3 and he was beaten 5–3 by

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in the opening round. After losing in the opening round of the 2017 World Championship qualifiers to compatriot

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, Zhang lost his place on the tour at the end of the season due to being ranked outside of the top 64 in the world rankings. He then entered Q School to try to regain his tour card and, after winning eight matches over the two events, he emerged as the highest placed qualifier via the Q School Order of Merit list, thus earning a new two-year professional tour card for the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons.

Performance and rankings timeline

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References

External links

Zhang Yong at ''CueTracker.net: Snooker Results and Statistic Database''Zhang Yong
at ''worldsnooker.com'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhang, Yong 1995 births Living people Chinese snooker players Sportspeople from Hunan 21st-century Chinese people