Who are the greatest snooker players ever? It is not easy to compare eras and, while century breaks are off the charts now ...

Zhao defeated veteran three-time champion Mark Williams in Monday's final at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

Zhao Xintong of China became Asia’s first world snooker champion after beating Mark Williams 18-12 in the final on Monday, ...

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

Why watching the Snooker World Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield is like an intimate Paul McCartney acoustic gig ...

In 2007, Hicks defeated Hann 10-4 to claim his first win at snooker’s blue-ribbon event since his debut run to the semi-finals in 1995. Controversial Australian Hann had already been warned for ...

Snooker, though, is now played and watched by more people in China than anywhere else and their long wait for a first world ...

John Virgo is one of the most recognisable voices in snooker and has been part of the BBC's coverage of the sport for over 30 ...

The possibility of the World Snooker Championship moving outside the UK has been mooted if the Crucible is ditched over the ...

Virgo’s personal life has had its ups and downs too. He went through two failed marriages and has a son, Gary, and a daughter ...

Desislava Bozhilova was a landscape architecture student in Bulgaria when she first had designs on becoming a snooker referee ...