Two-time Ranking Last 16
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China’s Chang Bingyu earned a two-year World Snooker Tour (WST) tour card by defeating Ryan Thomerson 6-1 to win the 2025 Asia-Pacific Snooker Championship in Albury, Australia.
The success marks a return to the professional ranks for Chang after receiving a two-year ban from professional competition in 2023.
Born in 2002, he first turned professional in 2019 having earned his position due to his results on the CBSA Tour.
Chang had previously competed as an amateur at ranking events including the 2018 China Championship where he defeated Jimmy Robertson and Mark Davis to reach the last 32 before losing to eventual champion Mark Selby.
He equalled this run three years later at the 2021 UK Championship, defeating Sam Craigie and former runner-up Mark Allen, before losing 6-5 to compatriot Zhou Yuelong in the third round.