(2000-02-16) 16 February 2000 (age 24) Zibo, Shandong, China
Sport country
China
Nickname
The Tiger[1]
Professional
2016–2023
Highest ranking
10 (March 2021)
Century breaks
153
Tournament wins
Ranking
1
Medal record
Representing China
Men's Snooker
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
2017 Ashgabat
Six-red singles
2017 Ashgabat
Team
Yan Bingtao
Traditional Chinese
顏丙濤
Simplified Chinese
颜丙涛
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yán Bǐngtāo
IPA
[jɛ̌npìŋtʰáʊ]
Yan Bingtao (Chinese: 颜丙涛; born 16 February 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player who is currently serving a five-year ban from professional competition after committing a range of match-fixing offences. He rose to prominence by winning the ISBF World Snooker Championship, the sport's world amateur title, in 2014 at age 14, which made him the tournament's youngest ever winner.[2] He turned professional in 2016.[3]
Aged 17 years and 284 days, Yan became the youngest player ever to contest a ranking final when he faced Mark Williams at the 2017 Northern Ireland Open, but lost in a deciding frame.[4] Yan claimed his first ranking title at the 2019 Riga Masters, becoming the third Chinese player, after Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo, to win a ranking event.[5] He made his Masters debut at the 2021 event, where he defeated John Higgins 10–8 in the final to win his first Triple Crown title. Aged 20, Yan became the youngest Masters winner since then-19-year-old Ronnie O'Sullivan won it in 1995.[6]
In December 2022, the WPBSA suspended Yan from the professional tour amid a match-fixing investigation.[7] Following an independent disciplinary tribunal, he was banned from competing professionally until 11 December 2027.[8]
^"Yan Bingtao". World Snooker Tour. Archived from the original on 19 March 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
^admin (14 July 2022). "Yan Bingtao - Player Profile, Career Summary, Stats". SnookerHQ. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
^"Yan Bingtao Is Snooker's Bright Young Hope Making Ronnie O'Sullivan Eat His Words". The Sportsman. 29 January 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
^"Can Yan Bingtao Create Snooker History At The Northern Ireland Open?". The Sportsman. 25 November 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
^Ting Yuan (29 July 2019). "颜丙涛打破尘封13年纪录 20岁前丁俊晖三夺排名赛" [Yan Bingtao broke the dusty 13-year record before the age of 20, Ding Junhui won three rankings]. Sina Sports. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
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^"Yan suspended from tour amid match-fixing probe Yan will now be banned for the next 5 years". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
^Huart, Matt (18 January 2023). "WPBSA Statement | 18 January 2023". WPBSA. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
YanBingtao (Chinese: 颜丙涛; born 16 February 2000) is a Chinese former professional snooker player who is currently serving a five-year ban from professional...
showdown with YanBingtao". www.sportinglife.com. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021. "YanBingtao wins Masters snooker...
having won the 2021 final 18–15 against Shaun Murphy. He lost 10–13 to YanBingtao in a second-round match that produced the longest frame ever played at...
"Igor Figueiredo 2014/2015". Snooker.org. Retrieved 28 April 2015. "YanBingtao Tour Card Deferred". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and...
YanBingtao played Gould, making five breaks higher than 50 and tying the score at 4–4, having only played eight frames in their opening session. Yan...
against YanBingtao, while Yan scored a break of 133 in frame two, before Trump won frame three. Yan then won the next four frames to lead 5–2. Yan missed...
second ranking title at the 2022 German Masters when he whitewashed YanBingtao 9–0 in the final, becoming only the third player, after Steve Davis and...
comfortable win over YanBingtao". Eurosport. Retrieved 8 December 2019. Phillips, Owen (6 December 2019). "UK Championship: YanBingtao beats John Higgins...
Tour Championship ranked third on the one-year ranking list. He beat YanBingtao 9–6 in the quarter-finals before being defeated 2–9 by Mark Allen in...
quarter-finals to Zhao Xintong, who went on to meet YanBingtao in the final. Aged 24 and 21 respectively, Zhao and Yan had the youngest combined age of any two...
time, the other four debutants being David Grace, Noppon Saengkham, YanBingtao, and Zhou Yuelong. The draw for the first round of the main competition...
Vafaei, defeating Lee Walker of Wales 10–9. In 2014, fourteen-year-old YanBingtao beat Pakistan's Muhammad Sajjad 8–7 to become the youngest ever world...
reach the final of the event, defeating compatriots Liang Wenbo and YanBingtao, both 6–2, in the two intervening rounds. Ding's opponent in the final...
Open final. At the World Snooker Championship, his 10–8 victory over YanBingtao earned him a place in the second round, where he was defeated by Ronnie...
compete in the event. YanBingtao defeated Mark Joyce 5–2 in the final, winning the event and earning his first career ranking title. Yan became the first...
from mainland China to win a ranking title, after Ding, Liang Wenbo and YanBingtao. His win enabled him to enter the top 16 for the first time and secure...
amateur snooker and become the 2nd youngest player after Chinese player YanBingtao at world amateur snooker champion in the world. He represented Pakistan...
Chinese player to win a ranking title, following Ding Junhui, Liang Wenbo, YanBingtao, and Zhao Xintong. Fan started playing snooker at the age of 5 in Harbin...
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