Cao Yupeng
Name | Date of Birth | Country |
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Cao Yupeng | 27-10-1990 | China |
Career
Early career
Cao was selected as a wild-card for the China Open twice, losing to Stuart Pettman in 2009 and Kurt Maflin in 2011. In April 2011, he beat Hossein Vafaei 7–3 in the final of the Asian Under-21 Championship,and in doing so earned a place on the main professional snooker tour for the 2011/2012 season.
2015/2016
Cao qualified for the International Championship with a 6–2 win over Liam Highfield, but was beaten 6–2 by Tian Pengfei in the first round. He could only win a total of four matches all season to finish 72nd in the world rankings.This meant that Cao had to enter Q School and he earned his place back on the tour at the first event with five match wins.
2016/2017
Cao was on a losing streak of 11 matches until he played in the Shoot-Out where he knocked out three players, before being defeated by David Grace. Aside from that he only won two matches during the season.