For the past six years, Ronnie O’Sullivan has been telling anyone who wanted to listen about a young Chinese snooker player by the name of Zhao Xintong. “Watch him – amazing – he’s the ...

In a sport deep-seated in tradition and history, a new era may have begun in snooker after Zhao Xintong became the first Chinese winner of the snooker World Championship. Zhao defeated veteran ...

Now, it seems, it's China's turn in the spotlight. Zhao Xintong’s crowning as Asia’s first world snooker champion has put the focus on the growth of the sport in China in a relatively short time.

So, it means we can do theater on the cloud, on the internet. But ‘yun’ also means ‘to speak’ in Chinese,” said Zhao. Angered by a news story in 2022 about a trafficked woman discovered ...

Snooker’s biggest ever match-fixing investigation resulted in the suspensions of a steady stream of Chinese players in late 2022 (Zhao was first suspended in January 2023), culminating with the ...