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In 2002
Liu won six out of seven group matches in the 2002 World under
21 championship in Latvia, knocking in a break of 102 in the
process.
He beat fellow Chinese player Tian Pengfei in
the last 32 and Singapore's Renfred Koh in the last 16, but
like the rest of the field had no answer to the irresistible
talent of China's fifteen year old Ding Junhui, who beat Liu
on his way to lifting the title.
In the 2003 event Song finished as runner up to
Australia's Neil Robertson, an achievement which earned him a
concession to the WSA main tour.
He missed the first event of the season, but
made amends after that, becoming the first Chinese player to
reach the televised stages of a ranking event. He got to the
Last 32 of the Welsh Open where he played Hong Kong's Marco
Fu, going down 5-3, but impressing many pundits as "one to
watch" for the future.
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