So far, Ding Junhui has won 23 championships! 14 of them are ranking tournament champions and 9 are invitational tournament winners!
Everyone is already familiar with his 14 ranking tournament titles, so let's take a closer look at his performance in the invitational tournament in this issue.
First of all, it was the 2008 Jiangsu Wuxi Classic, where he defeated Mark Selby 6-5 and won the championship prize of 20,000 pounds!
Then, in the same year, he defeated Doherty 6-4 in the final of the European Series in Warsaw to win the £12,000 prize money!
In 2011, he defeated Fu Jiajun 10-4 in the final of the Wembley Masters and won the championship prize of £150,000!
In 2012, he won £22,500 in the Snooker Champions League final with a 3-1 win over Trump!
In the same year, he won 4-2 against McGill at the Scottish Open in the European Series to take home a £15,000 championship bonus!
In 2014, he won 4-2 against Holt at the Yixing Open on the Asian Tour, taking home £13,500!
In 2015, he won 4-3 against Wharton at the Henin Open on the Asian Tour, again earning £13,500!
In 2016, he won the six-ball World Championship twice, beating Bingham 8-7 and Tachaiya 8-6, each with a prize money of £100,000!
To sum up, three of Ding Junhui's 9 invitational championships are heavyweight events, including the Snooker Masters and two Six Red Ball World Championships. The remaining six are small-scale invitational tournaments with relatively small prize money.
Important invitational tournament winners have considerable prize money, such as the champion of the champion of the champion of 150,000 pounds, the Shanghai master prize of 210,000 pounds, and the Riyadh Masters champion prize of 250,000 pounds! It's a pity that Ding Junhui has not been in good form in recent years and failed to win the championship of an important invitational tournament. £210,000 and £250,000 for the winner of the Riyadh Masters! It's a pity that Ding Junhui has not been in good form in recent years and failed to win the championship of an important invitational tournament.