Billiards prodigy Ding Junhui: Called the "Chinese Dragon" by foreign media, he won the world championship at the age of 15. What is his current situation?

I remember when I was in school, the school strictly prohibited primary and secondary school students from entering the "three halls and one room". This "three halls and one room" refers to the electronic game arcade, video hall, dance hall and billiards room. The purpose It is to prevent those entertainment activities that are saturated with social atmosphere from consuming young people's will, energy and time. But in fact, after billiards, which originated in Western Europe, spread to the British aristocratic circle, it got the nickname "gentleman's sport".

Since billiards was introduced to China in the late 1990s, it has always had a bad reputation in society. This is mainly because people did not play billiards for the purpose of pursuing high-level skills, but purely for the purpose of playing billiards. This is regarded as a fashionable pastime, and the people who come in and out of the billiards hall are mainly gangsters and idle people.

It can be said that in the era before the billiards prodigy Ding Junhui appeared, the billiards hall was indeed a place that was repeatedly boycotted by schools. With the popularity of snooker and the success of Ding Junhui, people have changed their views on billiards. Today, billiards has also become a high-end social entertainment activity.

Billiards prodigy Ding Junhui

On April 1, 1987, Ding Junhui was born in an ordinary citizen's home in Yixing City, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. His father, Ding Wenjun, makes a living by running his own grocery store. He is a financially prosperous small business owner and an out-and-out billiards enthusiast. Regarding his son Ding Junhui, his father always played the role of "strict father" and was extremely strict in disciplining Ding Junhui.

When he was a child, Ding Junhui was bullied by his classmates. He went home and complained to his father. His father criticized him and said: You can't bully others, but you can't be bullied either. Ding Junhui went to the swimming pool to learn swimming. His father threw Ding Junhui directly into the swimming pool and let his son writhe up and down.

In the summer vacation when Ding Junhui was 8 years old, his father went out to play billiards and took his son with him. When his father went to the toilet, the uncles next to him persuaded Ding Junhui to pick up the cue and try it. After playing for a while, I didn't expect that when his father came back, Xiao Ding Junhui had already won all the adults present. An uncle patted Ding Wenjun on the shoulder and said: Your son might be a genius at playing billiards!

Seeing that his son was so good, Ding Wenjun couldn't help but start to consciously train his son to play billiards. Seeing that his son was really talented in billiards, Ding Wenjun made up his mind to make every effort to let his son embark on the road of billiards. And he firmly believes that billiards can change the fate of Ding Junhui and his whole family.

After Ding Junhui became famous, he recalled the past and said: My success is a personal struggle supported by a family. In the future, I will support the entire family with billiard cues.

In order to ensure time for billiards training, his father Ding Wenjun went against all objections and asked his son to only attend math and Chinese classes at school, and only stay in school for half a day, and the other half of the day was spent practicing. Play billiards.

In order to provide Ding Junhui with a professional, convenient and quiet training venue, his father ruthlessly closed the grocery store and invested a lot of money to open a billiards hall, named "Junhui Billiards City". . Later, in order to bring his son's training in line with international professional competitions, his father spent a lot of money to purchase a complete set of billiards equipment specifically for the competition. This effort was just to enable Ding Junhui to follow a professional training route.

You will get something if you put in the effort. Although Junhui Billiards only lasted for more than a year before closing, the results of Ding Junhui’s training are obvious: when he was 9 years old, Ding Junhui played at the Aolin Table in Nanjing. The gym won the first championship in his life. In the same year, he participated in the provincial professional billiards competition and won the fourth place in Jiangsu Province.

The level of professional billiards in Jiangsu Province is naturally not as good as that of developed cities along the southern coast. Ding Wenjun was afraid that his son's skills would stagnate, so he took Ding Junhui to Guangdong at the end of 1998. After finishing primary school, he decided to play billiards. Choose to join the billiards business - play exclusively for the Dong Ying Club in Guangzhou.

In this pool hall where masters gathered, Ding Junhui competed with masters from all walks of life, and his level improved rapidly. In 2000, he participated in the Guangzhou Snooker Competition twice and won each time. When participating in the Asian Billiards Challenge in Hong Kong, he fought against the crowd and won third place in the competition. Since then, the young Ding Junhui has begun to make a name for himself in the Chinese billiards world.

China’s first world champion in billiards

In May 2002, 15-year-old Ding Junhui participated in the Asian Championships. He represented China and became a blockbuster, winning the first Asian championship for his motherland. Championship champion. On August 31, 2002, Ding Junhui participated in the World Youth Snooker Championship and successfully won the championship trophy.

At the age of 15, Ding Junhui was the youngest Snooker Youth Championship champion in the world, and thus opened the way to the world professional snooker ranking competition. In 2003, Ding Junhui became a professional snooker player as he wished. Under the arrangement of a British agent company, he rushed to the UK to participate in a professional snooker competition.

Billiards is very popular in the UK. The British love billiards as much as we Chinese love table tennis. There are many high-ranking professional snooker players in the UK, and Ding Junhui will have a valuable opportunity to compete with snooker players of different styles.

Under the arrangement of a British agency, Ding Junhui actively trained while participating in major and minor events in the World Billiards League, further improving his billiards skills and ability to compete in professional snooker competitions.

Ding Junhui was called the "Billiards Prodigy" when he was a boy. As an adult, Ding Junhui became famous around the world for his calm, sophisticated and ability to control the ball freely. Foreign media called him the "Chinese Dragon". It can be seen how deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is Ding Junhui, who represents the Chinese team in world events.

Having achieved both success in family and career, he already has a mature mentality as a man

In 2012, Ding Junhui and his girlfriend Zhang Yuanyuan had entered a stable period of relationship. Zhang Yuanyuan was stable and generous, and was a member of the magazine. Ding Junhui, a famous editor-in-chief, became acquainted with her through an interview. In 2014, the two successfully got married. In August 2018, their baby daughter came to the world, forming a warm and beautiful family of three.

In July 2015, Ding Junhui's mother unfortunately suffered from rectal cancer. The filial Ding Junhui chose to give up playing and return home during the last period of his mother's life in order to fulfill his responsibilities and obligations as a son.

At the end of 2015, Ding Junhui encountered a low point in his life. He suffered several defeats on the field and was reviled and criticized by fans, but no one knew how much depression Ding Junhui was feeling.

Today, Ding Junhui only lacks a snooker championship trophy in his playing career. Having become famous at a young age, he has long looked down on the ups and downs of life. Now in his thirties, he has achieved both success in his love and career, and his net worth has exceeded 100 million. In his free time, he will run with his wife, which is very comfortable. He already has everything. A man's mature and stable mentality.

Ding Junhui relied on his persistence and hard work to fully display his talent and achieve numerous successes. Although walking on this road of struggle meant giving up and losing many other things, he achieved it. The vow I once made to "support the whole family with a billiard cue".

Let us bless Ding Junhui together and hope that he can win the ultimate trophy as soon as possible!