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.

World snooker chief Jason Ferguson says Chinese trailblazer Zhao Xintong's world championship triumph in Sheffield will take the sport to "another level". This is going to take snooker to another level.

Zhao Xintong has made history with his World Snooker Championship final win over Mark Williams at the Crucible.Zhao needed just one more frame in Monday night’s fourth and final session in Sheffield to clinch the title and eventually wrapped up an 18-12 triumph following a last-gasp rally from Williams,