It has been a long time coming. On May 5th a soft-spoken, left-handed 28-year-old named Zhao Xintong (pictured) raised the famed trophy in the legendary Crucible Theatre in the northern English city ...

You would miss it were it not for the small sign on the outside which simply reads “Victoria Snooker”. The “V” is rather artistically made up of snooker cues and we are in a Sheffield street just a 10 ...

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Zhao Xintong's historic World Snooker Championship title is set to spur the game to even greater heights in China and sparked predictions the country could come to dominate the sport. The 28-year-old ...

Within minutes of becoming China's trailblazing world snooker champion, Zhao Xintong was draped in his country's flag as he started to take in the enormity of his achievement. Zhao defeated three-time ...

The defeat also means Ng misses out on the opportunity to claim the world No 1 snooker spot, with Bai claiming that accolade ...

Zhao Xintong became the first Chinese player to win the World Snooker Championship with a victory over Welshman and three-times winner Mark Williams at the Crucible Theatre on Monday, the latest ...

Brought to China by foreign traders in the 19th century, snooker suffered during the early Communist period, when all pastimes seen as individualistic, bourgeois and foreign were frowned upon. The ...

Zhao Xintong made history Monday night in Sheffield, becoming the first Chinese player — and the first amateur — to win the snooker World Championship with a stunning 18-12 victory over three-time ...

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