Ronnie O’Sullivan has hailed ‘phenomenal player’ Zhao Xintong ahead of their World Snooker Championship semi-final and suggested his ban from snooker was ‘a bit unfair’. The pair meet ...

In 2015 a teenage Zhao Xintong told a documentary he wanted to be like Chinese snooker trailblazer Ding Junhui. "My goal when I was younger was to become someone like Ding Junhui," a 17-year-old ...

Zhao captured the sport’s biggest prize — as well as a winner’s check of 500,000 pounds ($670,000) — at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield just months after returning to competitive action ...