Career
Tian first competed on the Main Tour in the 2006–07 season,dropping off the tour in the following season. During the season,Tian also received a one-year ban from China's cue sports administration, [2] [3] following an investigation into allegations that he had sexually abused and beaten his fellow team-mate,Zhou Mengmeng,at the Doha Asian Games in 2006,in which she subsequently gave a formal apology regarding this. [4]
As a wild card,Tian defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 5–3 in the last 32 of the 2010 China Open at the Students University Stadium in Beijing. In an astonishing finish to the match,O'Sullivan missed a simple final black off its spot which would have levelled the score at 4–4. He also recorded some impressive victories in the Wuxi Classic,by beating Mark Selby 5–3 and Joe Perry 5–1,before being whitewashed 6–0 by Ding Junhui. Despite these results,he was not awarded a wild card by World Snooker to compete on the main tour.
The next professional tournament he competed in was the Beijing International Challenge. In the group stages he recorded wins over Stephen Hendry and Stephen Maguire,before beating Liang Wenbo 6–4 and Ryan Day 9–3 to win the title. [5]
2011/2012 season
Tian qualified for the 2011–12 main tour as a semi-finalist from the second 2011 Q School event. [6] As an unranked player,Tian would need to win four matches to qualify for the main draw of the ranking event tournaments. He failed to do this throughout the season,coming closest in his first event,the Australian Goldfields Open. [7] He won his first two matches against Aditya Mehta and Anthony McGill (making three centuries in a 5–1 win) before being given a bye into the final qualifying round due to the withdrawal of Anthony Hamilton. [8] In the final round Tian lost 4–5 to Mark Davis. [9] Tian finished the year ranked world number 78,out of the top 64 who guarantee their places for the 2012–13 season. [10] However,he was awarded the first nomination from the Chinese national governing body for a spot on the tour,guaranteeing him entry into all the ranking event qualifiers in the upcoming season. [11]
2016/2017 season
Tian lost 4–3 to Matthew Stevens in the second round of the Riga Masters after thrashing Allan Taylor 4–0. A string of qualifying defeats and first round exits followed until the Welsh Open in February 2017 where he overcame Chen Zhe 4–2,before losing 4–0 to Barry Hawkins in the second round. [31] Tian's deepest run of the year was at the China Open,where wins over Anthony McGill and Martin Gould took him into the last 16. He was defeated 5–3 by Judd Trump. [32]
In the World Championship Qualifiers,Tian beat compatriot Zhang Yong 10-4 before an epic match against Fergal O'Brien. In the deciding frame Tian successfully obtained three snookers before missing a difficult final pink,allowing O'Brien to win the match 10–9. That last frame took around 90 minutes and the match finished at 2:30am.
2018/2019 season
Tian reached two more quarter-finals at the European Masters (where he beat Judd Trump) and the Gibraltar Open. In the World Championship qualifiers,Tian beat Soheil Vahedi,Ryan Day and Matthew Stevens to reach the Crucible for the first time. There,he played Stephen Maguire and appeared to have won the match when he led 9–7 with his opponent needing a snooker. However,Maguire got the snooker,fluked the blue,won the frame and eventually the match 10–9.
2020/2021 season
Tian's season was badly affected by a positive test for COVID-19,which forced him to self-isolate for several weeks.
His best performance came in the World Championship. With wins over Billy Castle,Sunny Akani and Graeme Dott,he qualified for the Crucible. There,he faced 4-times world champion John Higgins. Despite leading 7–4,Tian lost the match 10–7,attributing the slump to fatigue.
Tian finished the season ranked 58.
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