Following in the footsteps of Ding Junhui, who swapped China for the Steel City as a teenager to chase his snooker dreams, many Chinese players have taken the same route over the last two decades.

Ken Doherty has dismissed Stephen Hendry’s theory that Ding Junhui will be jealous that Zhao Xintong has become China’s first world snooker champion. Ding has been China’s standard-setter ...

Zhao Xintong's historic World Snooker Championship title is set to spur the game to even greater heights in China and sparked predictions the country could come to dominate the sport.He says Chinese ...

Ding Junhui will be 'slightly envious' of his countryman Zhao Xintong for doing what he's so far been unable to and taking the World Snooker Championship home to China. But he'll also be satisfied ...

Stephen Hendry believes Ding Junhui may be "fuming" after Zhao Xintong became the first Chinese world champion in snooker. Zhao, 28, shocked the world after defeating seasoned pro Mark Williams in ...

The 28-year-old was implicated in the sport's biggest match-fixing scandal before coming back from suspension to take the world title ...

The crowning of Zhao Xintong as Asia’s first world snooker champion will have come as a surprise to many unfamiliar with the sport, who will have also been unaware of its vast popularity in China ...

World champion Zhao Xintong had already caught the eye of fellow Chinese star Ding Junhui's father before his triumph at the Crucible. Ding is celebrated for revolutionising snooker in China ...

At the end of tournament that he’d only been entered into as a wildcard in order to drive local interest in Beijing, Ding had become the second-youngest ranking event winner in snooker history ...