It has been a long time coming. On May 5th a soft-spoken, left-handed 28-year-old named Zhao Xintong (pictured) raised the famed trophy in the legendary Crucible Theatre in the northern English city ...

You would miss it were it not for the small sign on the outside which simply reads “Victoria Snooker”. The “V” is rather artistically made up of snooker cues and we are in a Sheffield street just a 10 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Zhao defeated Crucible veteran Mark Williams 18 frames to 12 in Sheffield yesterday, becoming the ...

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. The 28-year-old ...

Within minutes of becoming China's trailblazing world snooker champion, Zhao Xintong was draped in his country's flag as he started to take in the enormity of his achievement. Zhao defeated three-time ...

China is not dominating snooker just yet, but the stars from the powerhouse nation expect it to happen in the near future. Zhao Xintong became China’s first world champion when he beat Mark Williams ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Once considered a saloon or rec-room past-time by many, snooker has long been serious business in the U.K. and much of the rest of the world. Now, it seems, it's China's turn in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brought to China by foreign traders in the 19th century, snooker suffered during the early Communist period, when all pastimes seen as individualistic, bourgeois and foreign were frowned upon. The ...