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Liu Song

The 2008/09 season didn’t see Liu reach his own expectations, as he won just two matches. The first came with a 5-1 victory over Matthew Selt in the Northern Ireland Trophy. The second came in the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship; a 10-9 final frame victory over Supoj Saenla in the first round of qualifiers was not enough to prevent 25-year-old Liu falling six places to in the rankings to No 59.
Liu showed that he has the potential to follow in the footsteps of fellow Chinese ace Ding Junhui with some outstanding results in the 2007 Royal London Watches Grand Prix.
He made his way through the round robin phase in the qualifiers and again at the venue, beating the likes of Matthew Stevens and Dave Harold in Aberdeen.
Liu then scored a sensational 5-3 defeat of Stephen Maguire to reach the quarter-finals. “It’s an important win for me,” he said. “Ding has won three ranking titles and is well known in Britain, but now I’m in a quarter-final so I’m happy." But that was as far as he went as a 5-0 defeat to Marco Fu followed.
Despite failing to make a major impact on any of the season’s remaining tournaments, Liu shot 19 places up the ranking list to No 53.
Liu became the first Chinese player ever to qualify for the final stages of a ranking event when he reached the 2004 Welsh Open in Newport.
He won four qualifying matches, culminating in victory over Fergal O’Brien, before losing to Marco Fu at the venue. However, that was not enough to keep Liu on the Tour and he dropped off at the end of the season.
But the talented Beijing cueman regained his professional status by finishing first out of nearly 200 players in the 2005/06 Pontin’s International Open Series. He won one of the eight events and reached the final of two more.
Liu reached the final of the IBSF Under-21 World Championship in 2003, losing 11-5 to Australia’s Neil Robertson in Taupo, New Zealand.

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