Zhang Yong (; born 21 July 1995) is a Chinese former professional snooker player.
Career Prior to turning professional Zhang featured in Asian Players Tour Championship events from 2012 to 2015, as well as being a semi-finalist in the 2015 ACBS Asian Snooker Championship. He made losing wildcard appearances at the 2014 Shanghai Masters and 2015 China Open.
Zhang earned a two-year professional World Snooker Tour card for the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons after his performances in the 2014/2015 Asian Tour events, with the highlight being a quarter-final appearance in the 2015 Xuzhou Open where he beat professionals Jimmy Robertson and Dechawat Poomjaeng, seeing him finish 25th on the Order of Merit.
Zhang won three matches in the early part of the 2015/2016 season, but then lost seven in a row until he beat Joe Swail 10–7 in the first round of World Championship qualifying, before losing 10–3 to Matthew Stevens. He qualified for the 2016 Indian Open, World Open and Riga Masters but was knocked out in the first round of all of them. Later in the 2016–17 season he qualified for the German Masters by beating Mike Dunn 5–4 and Mark Davis 5–3 and he was beaten 5–3 by Stuart Bingham in the opening round. After losing in the opening round of the 2017 World Championship qualifiers to compatriot Tian Pengfei, Zhang lost his place on the tour at the end of the season due to being ranked outside of the top 64 in the world rankings. He then entered Q School to try to regain his tour card and, after winning eight matches over the two events, he emerged as the highest placed qualifier via the Q School Order of Merit list, thus earning a new two-year professional tour card for the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons.
Performance and rankings timeline
Tournament 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 RankingIt shows the ranking at the beginning of the season.He was an amateur.New players on the Main Tour don't have a ranking.98Players qualified through Q School started the season without prize money ranking points.70 Ranking tournaments Riga Masters Not Held MR1R LQ3R A International Championship A A A LQ LQ2R LQ A China Championship Tournament Not HeldNR WD LQ A English Open Tournament Not Held1R3R2R A World Open A A A A1R LQ LQ A Northern Ireland Open Tournament Not Held1R2R1R A UK Championship A A A1R1R1R1R A Scottish Open MR Not Held1R2R3R A European Masters Tournament Not HeldLQ 1R1R A German Masters A A A LQ1R LQ LQ A World Grand Prix Not Held NR DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ Welsh Open A A A1R1R1R1R A Shoot-Out Non-Ranking Event3RQF1R A Players ChampionshipThe event was called the Players Tour Championship Grand Finals (2012/2013) DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ Gibraltar Open Not Held MR2RQF1R A Tour Championship Tournament Not Held DNQ DNQ World Championship A A A LQ LQ LQ LQ A Non-ranking tournaments Haining OpenNot HeldMR3R4R A3R Former ranking tournaments Australian Goldfields Open A A A LQTournament Not Held Shanghai Masters A AWR LQ LQ LQRanking Paul Hunter Classic Minor-Ranking Event 1R 1R 3R NR Indian Open NH A A NH1R LQ1R NH China Open A AWR LQ LQ LQ LQ NH Former non-ranking tournaments Shoot-Out A A A ARanking Event Performance Table LegendLQ lost in the qualifying draw#R lost in the early rounds of the tournament(WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)QF lost in the quarter-finalsSF lost in the semi-finalsF lost in the finalW won the tournamentDNQ did not qualify for the tournamentA did not participate in the tournamentWD 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. Notes
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