Watch the best shots as Zhao Xintong beats Mark Williams 18-12 in the final of the World Snooker Championship to become the first player from China to win the title. WATCH MORE: Luckiest frame of snooker? Zhao pots two flukes in final Available to UK users only. Read full article at source...
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 winner Mark Williams 18-12 on Monday to become the first Asian player and amateur to triumph at the Crucible. Williams called the 28-year-old a...
Zhao Xintong is just one frame away from becoming the first player from China to win the World Championship after extending his lead to 17-8 over Mark Williams in the final. The 28-year-old, who is aiming to become the first amateur to triumph at the Crucible, led 11-6 overnight and was able to take three...
Zhao Xintong dominated the opening session of the World Championship final against an out-of-sorts Mark Williams to construct a commanding 7-1 lead. It was the perfect start for Zhao as he bids to become China’s first world champion and only the third player from outside the UK to win the title since 1997. Breaks of...
Three-time champion Mark Williams produced a vintage display to defeat world number one Judd Trump 17-14, becoming the oldest ever player to reach a World Championship final. The Welshman, who turned 50 in March, eclipses his compatriot Ray Reardon, who won the title six times and appeared in the 1982 final as a 49-year-old. Williams...
Zhao Xintong began this season suspended from snooker after a match-fixing scandal but is tipped to be the sport’s new “megastar” if he becomes the first Chinese player to win the World Championship. The 28-year-old, who lives just a 10-minute walk from the Crucible venue in Sheffield, is one match away from joining Terry Griffiths...
Zhao Xintong produced a scintillating display of potting to open up a 12-4 lead against seven-time champion Ronnie O’Sullivan in their World Championship semi-final. With the overnight score at 4-4, Zhao took all eight frames on Friday morning to become only the fourth player to win a session 8-0 against O’Sullivan at the Crucible. Englishman...
Seven-time champion Ronnie O’Sullivan is level at 4-4 with Zhao Xintong after an entertaining opening session to their World Championship semi-final. China’s Zhao, 28, a former UK champion who is competing as an amateur, showed few signs of nerves having reached the single table set-up for the first time, racing into a 2-0 lead with...
The encounter between Trump and Williams will pit the game’s two most decorated left-handed players against each other in a repeat of the 2022 semi-final. Trump edged that nerve-shredding contest 17-16 against the Welshman and expended little energy on Wednesday evening to dispatch Brecel. Unlike the afternoon session when 2019 winner Trump did well to...
Three-time winner Mark Williams held off a spirited John Higgins fightback to win a Crucible classic 13-12 on the black as he reached the semi-finals of the World Championship. Resuming at 8-8 on Wednesday, Higgins was initially left to rue costly misses in each of the first four frames as winner Williams reeled off all...
Four-time world champion John Higgins took advantage of some mistakes from Mark Williams to lead 5-3 after the first session of their World Championship quarter-final. This tie features two of the sport’s all-time greats and two thirds of snooker’s legendary ‘Class of 92’ trio, which also includes Ronnie O’Sullivan. Williams, 50, became the oldest man...
Ken Doherty, the 1997 world champion, played against the ‘Class of 92’ throughout his career and felt this match was “the tie of the round”. “They’ve been at the top of the game since 1992, 33 years, and are still at the top and still producing,” the Irishman said. “As you get older it becomes...
World number one Judd Trump held off Shaun Murphy’s fightback to win an epic last-16 tie and move into the quarter-finals of the World Championship. Trump looked set for a routine victory when he led 12-6 but missed a red into the middle pocket and Murphy capitalised by reeling off four frames in a row....
After his 10-4 win over Zhou Yuelong in the first round, Trump – then on 98 centuries – was asked what an achievement it would be to get to 100. He said: “It would be way better than the achievement last time because I played far more tournaments and far more games [in 2019-20]. “I...
Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen compiled an incredible 147 maximum break during his World Championship last-16 match against Chris Wakelin. Allen was trailing 10-2 at the time after losing all four previous frames in the morning session on Friday. He went straight to the practice table in the mid-session interval and then produced snooker’s moment of...