Zhao Xintong’s triumph at the 2025 World Championship completed a journey that began with Ding Junhui 20 years ago ...

In 2015 a teenage Zhao Xintong told a documentary that he wanted to be like trailblazer Ding Junhui. "My goal when I was ...

The World Snooker Championship has reached its climax at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield with the 2025 final the only match ...

Zhao bounced back from a 20-month ban over a match-fixing scandal to become China's first snooker world champion.

Zhao Xintong began this season banned from snooker but is tipped to be the sport's new "megastar" after becoming the first Chinese player to win the World Championship.

In 2015 a teenage Zhao Xintong told a documentary he wanted to be like Chinese snooker trailblazer Ding Junhui.

In the documentary, Zhao's mother recalls: "I asked him, when you've finished university what job will you do? "He said, 'Play snooker'. He said it very firmly, he didn't need to think about it." ...

In 2015 a teenage Zhao Xintong told a documentary that he wanted to be like trailblazer Ding Junhui. Now 28, Zhao is on the cusp of becoming China's first snooker world champion -- and if he does ...