Gong Chenzhi

Gong Chenzhi is a Chinese snooker player. In 2024, he won a place on the World Snooker Tour from the 2024–25 snooker season.

Career
In June 2023, Gong beat three-time Women’s World Champion Ng On Yee 4-0 at the Asia-Oceania Q School in Bangkok.

2023/24
He reached the semi-finals at the 2023 CBSA Zhang Jiagang Youth Event Under-21 tournament. He was awarded a wildcard for the 2023 Wuhan Open. At the event he defeated Daniel Womersley and Jordan Brown. He was then beaten 4-5 by compatriot He Guoqiang. At the 2023 Shanghai Masters in September 2023, he played Iranian top-16 player Hossein Vafaei and lost 6-1.

Awarded a wildcard into the 2023 International Championship in Tianjin in November 2023, he was defeated by compatriot Wang Xingzhong 5-6, who at 12 years-old, became the second youngest player to ever compete at a ranking event, after Liam Davies at the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out.

At the WSF Junior Snooker Championship held in Albania in February 2024, he reached the final before being defeated by Hungarian Bulcsú Révész.

In qualifying for the 2024 World Snooker Championship he was defeated by veteran Rod Lawler 10-7.

2024/25
Through his performances on the CBSA China Tour he earnt a place on the World Snooker Tour from the 2024–25 snooker season. He made his professional debut at the 2024 Championship League in Leicester in June 2024. He defeated Gerard Greene in the third match of his round robin group.