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Fang Xiongman

Fang Xiongman

Chinese snooker player

In this Chinese name, the family name is Fang (方).

Fang Xiongman (Chinese: 方雄慢; pinyin: Fāng Xióngmàn,born 9 April 1993) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.

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Career

Fang began competing at professional events in 2012,[2][3] which included Asian Tour events as well as wildcard rounds of ranking tournaments.[2] His most notable win as an amateur came at the 2015 Shanghai Masters, where he defeated Jamie Jones 5–1 in the wildcard round,[2] but went on to get eliminated 5–2 by Stuart Bingham in the last 32.[4]

2017 Paul Hunter Classic

In 2016, Fang managed to receive a two-year tour card for the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons after successfully qualifying through 2016 Q School, beating Daniel Womersley 4–3 in the final round of the first event.[2] The Riga Masters was the first ranking event of the year and he qualified for it by overcoming Stephen Maguire 4–2, before losing in the opening round 4–3 to Andy Hicks. Fang's first win of his career at the venue stage of a ranking was a 4–2 success over Martin O'Donnell at the Scottish Open. He exited the tournament 4–0 to Mark Allen in the second round.[5]

He dropped off the tour at the end of the 2017/18 season and did not succeed to win back a place through the 2018 Q School.[6]

Performance and rankings timeline

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More information Performance Table Legend ...
NH / Not Heldmeans an event was not held.
NR / Non-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was no longer a ranking event.
R / Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a ranking event.
MR / Minor-Ranking Eventmeans an event is/was a minor-ranking event.
  1. [N 1]
    It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.
  2. [N 2]
    He was an amateur.
  3. [N 3]
    New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.
  4. [N 4]
    The event was called the Riga Open (2014/2015–2015/2016)
  5. [N 5]
    The event was called the Player Tour Championship Grand Finals (2012/2013) and the Players Championship Grand Final (2013/2014−2015/2016)

References

  1. [1]
    "WORLD RANKINGS After 2017 Kaspersky Riga Masters". World Snooker. Archived from the original on 2017-07-03. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Q School Event One Qualifiers". World Snooker. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Fang Xiongman 2012/2013". CueTracker.net: Snooker Results and Statistic Database. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  4. [4]
    "Snooker World champion Stuart Bingham eases into last 16 of Shanghai Masters". Daily Express. 16 September 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  5. [5]
    "Fang Xiongman 2016/2017". Snooker.org. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  6. [6]
    "Carty and Hirani Earn Maiden Tour Cards". 31 May 2018.
  7. [7]
    "Ranking History". Snooker.org. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
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