| Gong Chenzhi | |
| Professional: | 2024–present |
| High Ranking: | 99 (July 2024) |
| Best Finish: | Last 32 (2023 Wuhan Open) |
Gong Chenzhi is a Chinese snooker player. In 2024, he won a place on the World Snooker Tour from the 2024–25 snooker season.
In June 2023, Gong beat three-time Women’s World Champion Ng On Yee 4-0 at the Asia-Oceania Q School in Bangkok.[1]
He reached the semi-finals at the 2023 CBSA Zhang Jiagang Youth Event Under-21 tournament. He was awarded a wildcard for the 2023 Wuhan Open.[2] At the event he defeated Daniel Womersley and Jordan Brown.[3] He was then beaten 4-5 by compatriot He Guoqiang.[4] At the 2023 Shanghai Masters in September 2023, he played Iranian top-16 player Hossein Vafaei and lost 6-1.[5]
Awarded a wildcard into the 2023 International Championship in Tianjin in November 2023, he was defeated by compatriot Wang Xingzhong 5-6, who at 12 years-old, became the second youngest player to ever compete at a ranking event, after Liam Davies at the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out.[6]
At the WSF Junior Snooker Championship held in Albania in February 2024, he reached the final before being defeated by Hungarian Bulcsú Révész.[7] [8]
In qualifying for the 2024 World Snooker Championship he was defeated by veteran Rod Lawler 10-7.[9]
Through his performances on the CBSA China Tour he earnt a place on the World Snooker Tour from the 2024–25 snooker season.[10] He made his professional debut at the 2024 Championship League in Leicester in June 2024.[11] He defeated Gerard Greene in the third match of his round robin group.[12] At the 2024 Xi'an Grand Prix he defeated Tom Ford before facing countryman Si Jiahui.[13]
| Tournament | 2023/ 24 | 2024/ 25 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking[14] | [15] | [16] | |||||||
| Ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Championship League | A | RR | |||||||
| Xi'an Grand Prix | NH | 2R | |||||||
| Saudi Arabia Masters | NH | ||||||||
| English Open | A | ||||||||
| British Open | A | ||||||||
| Wuhan Open | 2R | LQ | |||||||
| Northern Ireland Open | A | ||||||||
| International Championship | LQ | ||||||||
| UK Championship | A | ||||||||
| Shoot Out | A | ||||||||
| Scottish Open | A | ||||||||
| German Masters | A | ||||||||
| Welsh Open | A | ||||||||
| World Open | LQ | ||||||||
| World Grand Prix | DNQ | ||||||||
| Players Championship | DNQ | ||||||||
| Tour Championship | DNQ | ||||||||
| World Championship | LQ | ||||||||
| Non-ranking tournaments | |||||||||
| Shanghai Masters | 1R | ||||||||
| Performance Table Legend | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LQ | lost in the qualifying draw |
| lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin) | QF | lost in the quarter-finals | |
| SF | lost in the semi-finals | F | lost in the final | W | won the tournament | |
| DNQ | did not qualify for the tournament | A | did not participate in the tournament | WD | withdrew from the tournament | |
| NH / Not Held | means an event was not held | ||||
| NR / Non-Ranking Event | means an event is/was no longer a ranking event | ||||
| R / Ranking Event | means an event is/was a ranking event | ||||
| MR / Minor-Ranking Event | means an event is/was a minor-ranking event | ||||