One of snooker’s biggest events, the UK Championship, is almost upon us
Zhao Xintong is set to play his first professional snooker event since returning from his match-fixing ban by competing at this month’s UK Championship. The high-profile scandal engulfed snooker in early 2023 as 10 Chinese players were charged with varying degrees of match fixing and ultimately Liang Wenbo and Li Hang were banned from the sport for life. Former world No 11 Liang’s behaviour was identified as “particularly disgraceful” by the WPBSA Disciplinary Commission that carried out the hearing.
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Seven-time snooker world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan has been granted residency in Hong Kong, with the star lavishing praise on the Chinese city in a government promotional video released Thursday.Snooker is one of Hong Kong's sporting successes, the city having produced three-time women's world champion Ng On-yee and former men's world championship semi-finalist Fu. Thursday's video also showed O'Sullivan passing through Hong Kong immigration and thanking the official in Mandarin.