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 ...

Zhao Xintong of China became Asia’s first world snooker champion after beating Mark Williams 18-12 in the final on Monday, completing a remarkable career turnaround following his involvement in the ...

YORK, England (AP) — Zhao Xintong became the second Chinese player this year to capture one of snooker's three major titles when he won the UK Championship on Sunday. Competing in the first final of ...

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, ...

STOCKHOLM, Oct 7 (Reuters) - China's Zhao Xintong's maximum 147 break in a small club in Sweden shone a spotlight on the snooker satellite tour that seldom hits the headlines but is essential to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Does snooker have its Luke Littler moment? Perhaps not on these shores – that came when Alex Higgins emerged like a hurricane in the Seventies – but, at a global level, this promises to be equally ...

The "long-overdue" moment of an Asian player winning the World Snooker Championship for the first time "was supposed to be one of unalloyed joy", said Luke Baker in The Independent. But there is an ...

Zhao potted three balls with a single shot in the 10th frame of his clash with Murphy. The Chinese cueist had attempted a risky effort into a pack of reds, which could have split them and handed his ...

As Zhao Xintong prepares to defend his World Championship title, his sparkling form in recent months has suggested he could be entering a spell of snooker dominance. The 29-year-old breezed to his ...

SHEFFIELD, England, May 5 (Reuters) - 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 ...