Yu Lijun | Player Profile | PlayGo.gg

Taiwanese women's champion, pro at 14

Biography

Yu Lijun (born 1999 in Taipei) became a professional in 2014 at 14, then the youngest woman professional in Taiwan. Her teacher is Zhou Junxun.

She won the Women's Meijin in 2016 and the Women's Strongest in 2018 and 2020. After high school she spent a year training with Korea's national team, the only Taiwanese player to do so.

In 2019 she won the mixed pairs at the Kooksu Mountains international tournament with O Rissei, and played in the main tournament of the Samsung Fire Cup.

vs. Lee Minjin, 2019 Samsung Fire Cup Qualifier, Round 1

June 30, 2019

Yu Lijun took Black against Korea's Lee Minjin in the first round of the combined qualifier and won by resignation. She went on to play in the Round of 32 of the main tournament, where she lost to Liao Yuanhe.