Zhao Xintong defeated Mark Williams 18-12 in the final to become the first Chinese player to win the Snooker World Championship.

Zhao Xintong, nation's first world champion of the green baize, will inspire youngsters throughout the land, including Hong Kong China has waited a long time for its first world snooker champion. Zhao ...

The overall TV reach across BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Four over the tournament was 12.6m - with a peak of 3 million on BBC Two ...

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

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

Zhao Xintong made history at the Men’s World Snooker Championship this week when he became the first player from any Asian country to win the title. The win also marks Zhao’s return to the sport after ...

Shaun Murphy claims "a lot of" players on the professional snooker tour have questioned why Zhao Xintong was allowed to ...

The World Snooker Championship was streamed a record-breaking 29 million times across BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website, and ...

Zhao is prohibited from taking part in events in mainland China even after becoming his country’s first world champion.

Zhao Xintong announced himself as a snooker superstar by becoming the sport's first Asian world champion, but he remains ...

Zhao Xintong's World Snooker Championship victory saw him rake in half-a-million pounds - and the Chinese star is now being ...