Ding Junhui (Chinese:丁俊暉; pinyin:Dīng Jùnhuī; born 1 April 1987 in Yixing,Wuxi,Jiangsu) is a Chinese professional snooker player.Ding Junhui is China's most successful player ever,having become only the second teenager,after John Higgins,to win three ranking titles.As a prolific breakbuilder Ding has compiled more than 200 century breaks during his career.
In December 2006,he enrolled at Shanghai Jiao Tong University to study Business Administration and Management.He is a resident of England during the snooker season.He is good friends with fellow countryman Liang Wenbo and they are training partners in Sheffield World Snooker Academy.
Ding started playing snooker at the age of nine,when his father took him to the Chinese national team training centre near Shanghai.His father persuaded his mother to sell their house in order for Ding to continue playing snooker as a career.
Ding shot to international prominence in 2002,when he won the Asian Under-21 Championship,the Asian Championship and the IBSF World Under-21 Championship (became the youngest ever winner of the World Under-21 Championship at the age of fifteen).He was unable to progress much in 2003,as both the Asian Championship and Under-21 Championship had to be cancelled because of the SARS virus crisis,but he was a semi-finalist in the IBSF World Under-21 championship,and was awarded a Main Tour concession by the WPBSA,which enabled him to turn professional in September 2003.In 2003,he became the number one ranked player in China.