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Zhao Xintong becomes China’s 1st world snooker champion

AFP on MSN · 11h

Zhao's historic snooker title sparks talk of China world domination

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.He says Chinese players will dominate snooker within three to five years.

CNN International · 3d

Zhao Xintong becomes China’s first world snooker champion after comeback from ban

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 chapter in Zhao’s remarkable rise and fall story.

The Week US on MSN · 2d

Zhao Xintong: China's controversial snooker champion

The 28-year-old was implicated in the sport's biggest match-fixing scandal before coming back from suspension to take the world title

The Economist1d

The men’s and women’s world snooker champions are now both Chinese

He could well be right. Half of those viewing the final on television are thought to have been in China, where, some ...

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China’s snooker king Zhao Xintong on fame, Wang Chuqin and blowing prize money on watches

Asia’s first world champion has a penchant for timepieces – ‘different brands’ – but his manager says she will not let him ...

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China's Zhao targets more titles after historic world snooker triumph

Fresh off becoming the first Chinese player to win the World Snooker Championship, Zhao Xintong is eyeing more titles, hoping ...

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China is ready to take over snooker thanks to a talent factory in Sheffield

You would miss it were it not for the small sign on the outside which simply reads “Victoria Snooker”. The “V” is rather ...

Agence France-Presse on MSN6d

Snooker star Zhao: from ban to cusp of Chinese sporting history

In 2015 a teenage Zhao Xintong told a documentary that he wanted to be like trailblazer Ding Junhui. "My goal when I was ...

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World Snooker Championship: The Crucible is sporting theatre that needs to be seen to be believed

Why watching the Snooker World Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield is like an intimate Paul McCartney acoustic gig ...

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