Snooker Player Form In China Since 2015

Tournament Results in China since 2015

Below are details of winner, beaten finalist and beaten semi-finalists in each of the twenty-five tournaments played in China since 2015:

Tournament + Year	Event Type + entries	Winner +winning score	Beaten Finalist	Beaten Semi Finalist 1	Beaten Semi Finalist 2
World Open 2024	Ranking Event 128	Judd Trump 10-4	Ding Junhui	Jackson Page	Neil Robertson
International Championship 2023	Ranking Event 128	Zhang Anda 10-6	Tom Ford	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Jordan Brown
Wuhan Open 2023	Ranking Event 128	Judd Trump 10-7	Ali Carter	Wu Yize	Lyu Haotian
Shanghai Masters 2023	Invitational 24	Ronnie O'Sullivan 11-9	Luca Brecel	Mark Selby	Neil Robertson
World Open 2019	Ranking Event 128	Judd Trump 10-5	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh	John Higgins	Kyren Wilson
China Championship 2019	Ranking Event 130	Shaun Murphy 10-9	Mark Williams	Mark Selby	Hossein Vafaei
Shanghai Masters 2019	Invitational Event 24	Ronnie O'Sullivan 11-9	Shaun Murphy	Neil Robertson	Mark Allen
International Championship 2019	Ranking Event 128	Judd Trump 10-3	Shaun Murphy	Mark Selby	Mark Allen
China Open 2019	Ranking Event 128	Neil Robertson 11-4	Jack Lisowski	Luca Brecel	Scott Donaldson
International Championship 2018	Ranking Event 128	Mark Allen 10-5	Neil Robertson	Matthew Stevens	Jack Lisowski
China Championship 2018	Ranking Event 128	Mark Selby 10-9	John Higgins	Zhao Xintong	Lyu Haotian
Shanghai Masters 2018	Invitational Event 24	Ronnie O'Sullivan 11-9	Barry Hawkins	Kyren Wilson	Ding Junhui
World Open 2018	Ranking Event 128	Mark Williams 10-9	David Gilbert	Noppon Saengkham	Barry Hawkins
China Open 2018	Ranking Event 131	Mark Selby 11-3	Barry Hawkins	Kyren Wilson	Neil Robertson
Shanghai Masters 2017	Ranking Event 131	Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-3	Judd Trump	John Higgins	Jack Lisowski
International Championship 2017	Ranking Event 128	Mark Selby 10-7	Mark Allen	Martin Gould	Yan Bingtao
World Open 2017	Ranking Event 128	Ding Junhui 10-3	Kyren Wilson	Luca Brecel	Mark Allen
China Championship 2017	Ranking Event 128	Luca Brecel 10-5	Shaun Murphy	Li Hang	Ali Carter
China Open 2017	Ranking Event 132	Mark Selby 10-8	Mark Williams	Kyren Wilson	Hossein Vafaei
China Championship 2016	Invitational Event 16	John Higgins 10-6	Stuart Bingham	Mark Allen	Shaun Murphy
International Championship 2016	Ranking Event 132	Mark Selby 10-1	Ding Junhui	Stuart Bingham	Judd Trump
Shanghai Masters 2016	Ranking Event 136	Ding Junhui 10-6	Mark Selby	Stephen Maguire	Stuart Bingham
World Open 2016	Ranking Event 132	Ali Carter 10-8	Joe Perry	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh	Neil Robertson
China Open 2015	Ranking Event 132	Judd Trump 10-4	Ricky Walden	Stephen Maguire	John Higgins
International Championship 2015	Ranking Event 132	John Higgins 10-5	David Gilbert	Mark Selby	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Asian Tour 2015	Ranking Event 149	Ding Junhui 4-3	Ricky Walden	Jimmy Robertson	Robert Milkins
Shanghai Masters 2015	Ranking Event 136	Kyren Wilson 10-9	Judd Trump	Mark Allen	Stuart Bingham
China Open 2015	Ranking Event 132	Mark Selby 10-2	Gary Wilson	Kurt Maflin	Ding Junhui
Asian Tour 3 2015	Ranking Event 118	Joe Perry 4-1	Thepchaiya Un-Nooh	Tom Ford	Mark WIlliams

Player Form in China since 2015

Below is a table of the aggregate titles, finals and semi-finals of all players who made the semi-final or later of a tournament in China 2015-2023 inclusive:

Player	Titles	Beaten Finalist	Beaten Semi-Finalist
Mark Selby	6	1	0
Judd Trump	5	2	1
Ronnie O'Sullivan	4	0	1
Ding Junhui	3	2	2
John Higgins	2	1	3
Shaun Murphy	1	3	1
Mark Williams	1	2	1
Mark Allen	1	1	5
Neil Robertson	1	1	5
Kyren Wilson	1	1	3
Joe Perry	1	1	0
Luca Brecel	1	1	2
Ali Carter	1	1	1
Zhang Anda	1	0	0
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh	0	2	2
Barry Hawkins	0	2	1
Ricky Walden	0	2	0
David Gilbert	0	2	0
Stuart Bingham	0	1	3
Jack Lisowski	0	1	2
Tom Ford	0	1	1
Gary Wilson	0	1	0
Stephen Maguire	0	0	2
Hossein Vafaei	0	0	2
Lyu Haotian	0	0	2
Scott Donaldson	0	0	1
Matthew Stevens	0	0	1
Zhao Xintong	0	0	1
Noppon Saengkham	0	0	1
Martin Gould	0	0	1
Li Hang	0	0	1
Yan Bingtao	0	0	1
Jimmy Robertson	0	0	1
Kurt Malfin	0	0	1
Robert Milkins	0	0	1
Wu Yize	0	0	1
Jordan Brown	0	0	1
Jackson Page	0	0	1

As you can see from the above table, Mark Selby has been prolific when playing in China from 2015. The former World Champion has made the semi-final or better in an amazing ten of the twenty-eight tournaments played since 2015. Selby has won six of those events, one more than his nearest pursuer, Judd Trump.

The table above does include a coupe of events that were only best of seven frames (up to and including the final) but, in most cases, all of the events were won by one of the top players in the world. Shocks were rare with perhaps only the victories of Joe Perry, Luca Brecel and Ali Carter coming outside the very top named players at that time.

Despite only winning one event in the timeframe above, Mark Allen made the semi-final stages or better on seven occasions, a feat only bettered by Selby and matched by Trump. Neil Robertson also record his seventh trip to a semi-final in China when losing out to Ding Junhui in a final-frame decider in the latest version of the World Open

Anyone looking for a longshot when play resumes in China could do worse than look at the form of Thepchaiya Un-Nooh. The thirty-eight-year-old player from Thailand has made the semi-final or better on seven occasions in his career since 2105 and four of those efforts came in China. 

Perhaps playing in China might be the key to Jack Lisowski winning his first event. Lisowski has made the final of six big events since 2015 and four of those were outside the UK. The Bristol player is thirty-two now and really needs to add a big title to his resume in the next season or so. Perhaps being away from the UK allows Lisowski to relax more and, possibly, a tournament win in China could soon be on the cards. 

Stuart Bingham has made one final and three other semi-finals since 2015 but previous to that Bingham had won five events in China between 2012 and 2014.

Similarly, Ricky Walden has made two finals during the period that the above table covers, but Walden has won three of his four ranking titles in China; The International Championship in 2014, The Wuxi Classic in 2012 and The Shanghai Masters in 2008.