Chinese snooker has had its ups and downs but looks in rude health again with a string of top players and the re-emergence of the country’s most promising talent. Ding Junhui’s shock win at ...

There are an estimated 300,000 snooker clubs in China, and of the last 32 players at the World Championship this year, a record 10 were Chinese. Six of them made it through to the last 16.

SHEFFIELD, England — Ten Chinese snooker players were charged Wednesday for their alleged roles in a match-fixing scandal that has plunged the sport into its biggest corruption crisis. An ...

Yan Bingtao, who won the Masters in 2021, previously practised there but, with Zhao, was among 10 Chinese players suspended in 2023 as part of snooker’s biggest-ever match fixing investigation.

And that was where and when "snooker's dark side took hold". In early 2023, 10 Chinese players were charged with varying degrees of match-fixing.

SNOOKER star Chang Bingyu has made a statement return to the baize after seeing out his suspension alongside World Snooker champion Zhao Xingtong. Both Zhao and Chang were given lengthy bans for ...

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 ...

Chinese make up ten of the top 32 players in the world and China boasts more than 300,000 snooker or billiards clubs, up from 34,000 in 2005, state media says.

Snooker's 'dark side' It is "surprising" that Zhao is China 's first world snooker champion, said The i Paper. The game arrived in China in the 1980s, taking off after it became part of the Asian ...