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Liang made a fantastic start to the 2009/10 season, and in the process gave notice that he is ready to challenge Ding Junhui as snooker’s most potent force from the East.
At the Roewe Shanghai Masters, the Chinese left-hander knocked out David Gilbert, Peter Ebdon, Ali Carter, Ricky Walden and Shaun Murphy to reach the first ranking final of his career.
Cheered on by his fans at the Shanghai Grand Stage, Liang gave it his best shot against Ronnie O’Sullivan, but fell to a 10-5 defeat. "In the first session I played well and put Ronnie under some pressure, but it was hard to keep doing that in the second session. I need more experience in finals like this," he said.
O’Sullivan was full of praise for his opponent and admitted being frightened by Liang’s attacking style and unorthodox shot selection. "Liang pots so many difficult balls, and that's hard to play against,” said the Rocket. “You think you’ve got him in trouble and you’ll get back to the table, then he pots a long ball and you have to stay in your seat, so you can get frustrated. His potting ability is so good, that wherever you leave the white, you don't know if it's safe. He's improved a lot since I played him at the Crucible (in 2008).”
Liang went on to reach the quarter-finals of the Pukka Pies UK Championship, but then first-round defeats in the next two ranking events left his chances of getting into the top 16 of the official world rankings for the first time hanging in the balance.
Crucially, he won his qualifying match for the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship, thrashing Rod Lawler 10-2. The random draw for the first round proper at the Crucible pitched him against O’Sullivan, and though he made a spirited comeback from 9-3 down to 9-7, he eventually lost 10-7.
“Trailing by such a big margin after the first session, I was relaxed because you feel deep down that the match is maybe out of your reach,” said Liang, who finished the season at number 16 in the world. “So I just wanted to go out there, play my game, and hopefully to produce my best for all the fans to see. This is the World Championship, it's the most important tournament and you always want to play your best in this one.”
Liang showed his amazing break-building talent in a 5-1 victory over Martin Gould in the 2008 Bahrain Championship qualifiers. He made his first official 147 break as well as runs of 115, 139, 58 and 139.
Earlier in 2008, Liang had captured the imagination as his swash-buckling style took him to the quarter-finals at the Crucible
After winning four qualifying matches just to get to Sheffield, beating Ian McCulloch in the last round, he scored a surprise 10-5 victory over former champion Ken Doherty.
More drama was to follow as he edged out Joe Swail 13-12 in arguably the match of the championship. That set up a dream quarter-final against O’Sullivan, and though Liang ran the Rocket close in the early stages, he finally bowed out 13-7.
He won the 2005 World Under-21 Championship, beating countryman Tian Pengfei 11-9 in the final in Bahrain.
Away from snooker, Liang is a keen football fan and is a close friend of former Manchester City and China defender Sun Jihai.