Zhao Xintong of China has become Asia's first world snooker champion after beating Mark Williams 18-12 in the final.

Zhao defeated veteran three-time champion Mark Williams in Monday's final at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

With “The Cyclone’s” victory demonstrating China's growing power in the sport, chair of the World Professional Billiards and ...

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

Zhao Xintong became the first Chinese player to win the World Snooker Championship with a victory over Welshman and ...

China is edging closer to having its first world snooker champion after Zhao Xintong established an 11-6 lead over Mark ...

Shaun Murphy claims his snooker rivals are ‘fuming’ that the World Snooker Tour (WST) have ‘backtracked’ on their own rules ...

Shaun Murphy claims a number of players on the professional snooker tour questioned why Zhao Xintong was allowed to compete ...

Zhao Xintong revealed the one thing he could splash out on after earning £500,000 in prize money from his maiden World ...

SNOOKER’s new world champion Zhao Xintong has hinted at the luxuries he might splash some of his £500,000 winnings on. But the manager of Asia’s first ever Crucible king warned the ...

In one of the most remarkable career turnarounds in sports, Zhao Xintong left behind the ghosts of match-fixing ban and ...

Zhao demolished three-time winner Williams to become China’s first world champion but his complex past means that ...