Lyu also reached the first round of the 2013 China Open courtesy of the withdrawal of Mark Joyce in the wildcard round. He lost 2–5 to Mark Williams. In July, Lyu won the IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship to receive a two-year card for the &lt;a href="2013%E2%80%9314%20snooker%20season"&gt;2013/14&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="2014%E2%80%9315%20snooker%20season"&gt;2014/15 seasons&lt;/a&gt;.