{"id":702,"date":"2026-05-19T10:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/?p=702"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:56:49","slug":"xiao-guodong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/xiao-guodong\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiao Guodong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He turned professional in 2007 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championships. He won his first ranking event 17 years after first turning professional at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2024_Wuhan_Open_(snooker)\">2024 Wuhan Open<\/a>, beating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Si_Jiahui\">Si Jiahui<\/a>\u00a010\u20137 in only the third all-Chinese ranking event final.\u00a0He also took part in the first ever all-Chinese ranking event final, when he lost 6\u201310 to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ding_Junhui\">Ding Junhui<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2013_Shanghai_Masters\">2013 Shanghai Masters<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xiao_Guodong#cite_note-4\">[<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In 2025, he retained his Wuhan Open title, defeating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Wilson_(snooker_player)\">Gary Wilson<\/a>\u00a010\u200d\u2013\u200d9 in the final, becoming only the fourth player in professional snooker history to defend their maiden ranking title, after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Parrott\">John Parrott<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Allen_(snooker_player)\">Mark Allen<\/a>\u00a0and Wilson himself<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He turned professional in 2007 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championships. He won his first ranking event 17 years after first turning professional at the\u00a02024 Wuhan Open, beating\u00a0Si Jiahui\u00a010\u20137 in only the third all-Chinese ranking event final.\u00a0He also took part in the first ever all-Chinese ranking event final, when he lost 6\u201310 to\u00a0Ding Junhui\u00a0in the\u00a02013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rankings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}