Tian Pengfei

There he lost 2–4 to Mark Selby, but finished a lofty 30th on the PTC Order of Merit, just outside the top 26 who qualified for the Finals.

Tian's season ended when he was beaten 7–10 by Jimmy White in the second round of World Championship Qualifying, to finish the campaign ranked world number 70.

Tian Pengfei (born 16 August 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player.

He began his career by playing the Challenge Tour in 2004, at the time the second-level professional tour.

Tian played on the Main Tour in 2006 and competed on the World Snooker Tour for two seasons until he dropped off in 2008.

He won the Beijing International Challenge, and returned to the Main Tour the following year.

Tian first competed on the Main Tour in the 2006–07 season, dropping off the tour in the following season.

During the season, Tian also received a one-year ban from China's cue sports administration, following an investigation into allegations that he had sexually abused and beaten his fellow team-mate, Zhou Mengmeng, at the Doha Asian Games in 2006, in which she subsequently gave a formal apology regarding this.

As a wild card, Tian defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–3 in the last 32 of the 2010 China Open at the Students University Stadium in Beijing.

In an astonishing finish to the match, O'Sullivan missed a simple final black off its spot which would have levelled the score at 4–4.

He also recorded some impressive victories in the Wuxi Classic, by beating Mark Selby 5–3 and Joe Perry 5–1, before being whitewashed 6–0 by Ding Junhui.

Despite these results, he was not awarded a wild card by World Snooker to compete on the main tour.

The next professional tournament he competed in was the Beijing International Challenge.

In the group stages he recorded wins over Stephen Hendry and Stephen Maguire, before beating Liang Wenbo 6–4 and Ryan Day 9–3 to win the title.

Tian qualified for the 2011–12 main tour as a semi-finalist from the second 2011 Q School event.

As an unranked player, Tian would need to win four matches to qualify for the main draw of the ranking event tournaments.

He failed to do this throughout the season, coming closest in his first event, the Australian Goldfields Open.

He won his first two matches against Aditya Mehta and Anthony McGill (making three centuries in a 5–1 win) before being given a bye into the final qualifying round due to the withdrawal of Anthony Hamilton.

In the final round Tian lost 4–5 to Mark Davis.

Tian finished the year ranked world number 78, out of the top 64 who guarantee their places for the 2012–13 season.

However, he was awarded the first nomination from the Chinese national governing body for a spot on the tour, guaranteeing him entry into all the ranking event qualifiers in the upcoming season.

Tian could not qualify for the main draw of any of the ranking events during the season.

However, he had a very good season in the minor-ranking Players Tour Championship Events.

At the second European Tour Event he won four matches which included a last 16 triumph over top 16 player Stuart Bingham to reach the quarter-finals, where he was whitewashed 0–4 by Neil Robertson.

Tian went one better at the sixth European Tour Event with wins over the likes of Jamie Burnett, Mark Davis and Martin Gould in the quarter-finals to advance to the semis.

In his opening match, Tian defeated Luca Brecel 5–3 to qualify for the 2013 Wuxi Classic in China where he was whitewashed 5–0 by Jack Lisowski in the first round.

He then lost in the qualifying rounds for three successive events, but reached the first round of the International Championship with a 6–0 thrashing of Alexander Ursenbacher.

He faced Mark Allen and was beaten 6–1.

Tian edged past Michael Wasley 5–4 to play in the German Masters, where he matched the best performance in a ranking event of his career.

He saw off Andrew Higginson 5–3 in the first round and then recorded the finest result of his career so far by beating world number one Neil Robertson 5–1.

His last 16 match against Rod Lawler went to the colours in the deciding frame with Lawler potting the brown, blue and pink to win 5–4.

Tian was eliminated in the first round of the World Open by Graeme Dott and went a stage further at the China Open, but lost 5–3 against Mike Dunn.

He ended the season ranked world number 66, falling just short of the top 64 who remain on tour.

Tian entered the 2014 Q School and won a two-year tour card for the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons in the first event, whitewashing Eden Sharav 4–0 in his final match.

Tian beat Ronnie O'Sullivan 4–2 to reach the quarter-finals of the Paul Hunter Classic, where he lost 4–3 to Judd Trump from 3–2 up.

He was knocked out at the same stage of the Haining City Open 4–2 by Jimmy Robertson.

Tian lost 6–3 in the first round of the UK Championship and won his first ranking event match of the season 4–2 against Tom Ford at the Welsh Open.

He was beaten 4–1 by Luca Brecel in the second round.

A pair of 4–1 victories set up Tian's best run in a ranking event this year at the Indian Open, but he was thrashed 4–0 by Ricky Walden in the last 16.

Tian defeated Noppon Saengkham and Yu Delu both 5–1 and Matthew Stevens 5–0 to play in the final qualifying round of the 2015 Shanghai Masters, losing 5–4 to Mark Davis.