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The 2025 edition of Q School concluded on Sunday with the final spots on the World Snooker Tour from the series being awarded ...
Michaela Tabb, the iconic snooker referee, has decided to retire from the traditional version of the sport, having officiated her final game at Sheffield's renowned Crucible Theatre. The 57 year ...
A man playing snooker at a billiard club in Beijing on May 6, 2025. Zhao Xintong's historic victory at the World Snooker Championship is set to spur the game to even greater heights in China and ...
May 7 - Fresh off becoming the first Chinese player to win the World Snooker Championship, Zhao Xintong is eyeing more titles, hoping his continued success will inspire a new wave of talent in China.
A curious footnote to Zhao Xintong’s triumph at the World Snooker Championship on Monday is that he remains banned from playing in China. He is forbidden to appear at events there, despite being ...
The World Snooker Championship was streamed a record-breaking 29 million times across BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app, a 25% increase from the previous year. The action ...
New world champion Zhao Xingtong has the potential to become the "richest player in snooker history"; Zhao is the first Chinese winner at The Crucible and could help snooker's bid for Olympic ...
Here’s how it works. The World Seniors Snooker Championship 2025 is bringing together the legends of the baize – including Jimmy White and reigning champion Igor Figueiredo – for more green ...
At the end of the tournament he had only entered as a wildcard in order to drive local interest in Beijing, Ding had become the second-youngest ranking event winner in snooker history, behind a ...
You would miss it were it not for the small sign on the outside which simply reads “Victoria Snooker”. The “V” is rather artistically made up of snooker cues and we are in a Sheffield ...
The grand finale of this year's World Snooker Championship is set to kick off this afternoon, with a hefty prize fund on the line. The victor will not only claim the sport's most coveted trophy ...
Higgins requires 100 per cent concentration to get over the winning line and, this being snooker, total quiet is preferable. Advertisement Most noises are frowned upon; coughing boisterously is ...