China prepares for the last-16 match between Ding Junhui and Zhao Xintong – the country's first ranking event winner and trailblazer against its first - and the defending - world champion.

Wu Yize is the second Chinese player to win the world title after Zhao Xintong made history as the first Asian to lift the ...

Snooker’s bid to enter the Olympic Games will be boosted by having back-to-back world champions from China, the sport’s top official said on Tuesday. Wu Yize beat Shaun Murphy 18-17 in a dramatic ...

On April 3, 2005, a grinning Ding Junhui lifted the China Open trophy after defeating Stephen Hendry in the final. Just two days after his 18th birthday, the Chinese teenager had stunned the snooker ...

Trailblazer Ding Junhui called it "our era" as Wu Yize's World Snooker Championship victory went viral back home in China with tens of millions celebrating the country's latest landmark in the ...

A new snooker league has launched in China as the country bids to ‘move from a major billiards nation to a leading powerhouse ...

The bad news for the Brits trying to slow China’s snooker takeover - WORLD SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP: Wu Yize’s remarkable Crucible triumph made it back-to-back Chinese world snooker champions but where ...

The new world champion is the fourth consecutive first-time winner and the UK game faces a challenge to keep up with investment in Asia ...