Zhao Xintong made history as the first Chinese player to win the World Snooker Championship as he impressively dominated Mark Williams 18-12 in the final at the Crucible. Zhao booked his place in ...

The only person this evidently did not surprise was Ronnie O’Sullivan himself. He has spent much of the past fortnight warning anyone who cared to listen that he was playing dreadfully. It is also now ...

In the 98 years since Joe Davis became snooker’s first world champion, the famous old trophy has left the United Kingdom just five times. To Australia twice, the Republic of Ireland and Canada once, ...

The long-overdue moment that a first Chinese winner of the World Snooker Championship finally arrived was supposed to be one of unalloyed joy. Yet now it’s here, there is an air of hesitancy around ...

Liang Wenbo was one of 10 Chinese snooker players suspended in 2022 as part of the sport's biggest corruption scandal, before ...