As snooker prepares to host one of its showpiece ... champion Yan Bingtao has been replaced by David Gilbert, while 2021 UK Championship winner Zhao Xintong's spot has gone to Hossein Vafaei.

Two Chinese snooker ... the 2021 UK Championship winner Zhao Xintong, handed a ban of two years and six months. The investigation primarily related to matches played in the British Open, Welsh ...

For the past six years, Ronnie O’Sullivan has been telling anyone who wanted to listen about a young Chinese snooker ... the UK Championship and German Masters during the 2021-22 season to ...

UK Snooker Championship ... to Scotland's McGill in the last 16 of the 2021 World Championship, but he has won their past five meetings in the shorter format of the game. O'Sullivan was also ...