Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tana tukinga whakatuwhera o te waa, i hinga a Xiao i a Andrew Norman 5<unk>3 kia eke ki te 2013 Wuxi Classic i Haina i reira ia i patu ai i a Peter Ebdon 5<unk>3 i te rauna tuatahi me Li Hang 5<unk>4 i te tuarua. Kāore hoki a Xiao i taea te tiki i tētahi anga i te rauna tuatahi o te
Australian Goldfields Open, i a ia e ngaro ana 0<unk>5 ki a Joe Perry. I wikitoria e ia e toru nga tukinga hei tohu mo te Shanghai Masters, ana i reira ka hinga ia i a Yuan Siyun 5<unk>0 i te rauna Wildcard. I whai hua a Xiao i te mahi ngoikore a Stephen Maguire i te rauna tuatahi ki te patu i a ia 5<unk>2 ka kite i a Peter Lines 5<unk>3. I haere tonu ia ki te mahi i nga hawhe-mutunga o te huihuinga rangatira mo te wa tuatahi i a ia e hoki mai ana mai i te 4<unk>2 ki raro ki te patu i a Mark Davis 5<unk>4 i muri mai i tana mahi me Terry Griffiths hei take nui ki tana angitu. I roto i te semis i takaro ia ki a Michael Holt i hanga hoki i tana whakataetae tuatahi o te whakataetae, a, mai i te 3<unk>3 Xiao i pakaru i te 111, i tapiri i te anga e whai ake nei, ka kati i te tukinga 6<unk>3 me te 127 pakaru. I takaro ia ki a Ding Junhui i te whakamutunga o te raarangi Hainamana katoa ka whiua ia 10<unk>6, engari ko te tiwhikete a te kaihauturu mo te £ 35,500 te mea nui rawa atu o tana umanga tae noa ki tenei wa, ana ka uru ia ki nga 32 o runga o te ao mo te wa tuatahi.