Zhao Xintong was banned for 20 months in sports after being caught in a fixed scandal.
Who is China’s first world snooker champion Zhao Xintong and why did he have been banned for 20 months in sports?
Zhao was selected as China’s first world snooker champion. Mark Williams to finish the 18-12 victory in the crucible from Mark Williams.
The 28 -year -old boy got a famous trophy and £ 500,000 check, became the only third qualifier and the first amateur player to win Crucible, and lost his tour card in the match fixed scandal in January 2023.
Zhao stimulated the effort to fix or fix two games related to his former master winner, Yan Bingtao.
He was one of the ten Chinese snookers involved in the economic fixed investigation, but was received by the WPBSA. Zhao has been found to bet on a snooker match against “being a party to other players who fix two games.” He also had to pay 7,500 pounds for the operation.
Despite frequent expressions of his participation, there may be those who believe that his victory is contaminated.
Zhao mentioned the 20 -month ban, which expired in September, and said, “I have not been able to play at the tour competition for almost two years.
“I can’t believe it to be a champion, but I have come back now and I want to go.”
Ronnie O’Sullivan talked about Zhao’s ban on sports.
Ronnie O’Sullivan said: “Yes, I think it’s unfortunate for some boys, I think they didn’t actually be involved in it from what I collected, so some of them are really harsh for them, I caught in a honest place for you.
Zhao went to China to showcase the trophy this week, and it has been a long time since the original Snooker Trail Blazer Ding Junhui won the first of three British career titles in 2005.
However, Ding was short in the crucible, and when the 2021 Masters Champion Yan Bingtao, another major winner of China, was banned from the economic fixed incident by 2027, there was a fear that the love and profitability of China’s sports peaked.
Ranking point and prize money
Jason Ferguson, the chairman of the Sports Global Rule, says Zhao should maintain the ranking point after securing the tour card through the Q Tour, not the Sheffield.
Ferguson said about the game fixed scandal:
“We worked with the player to prevent the same mistake again. We are convinced that we have been done through the sports guy and we can move forward.”
Zhao beat Mark Williams, secured world titles, and became the first winner of the tournament in China.
The BBC Pundit Ken Doherty expressed concern that some players were “going up the weapon,” and says that there is no opinion among experts about what Zhao’s crucible income is calculated in his ranking.
In 1997, the World Champion said, “The biggest problem at this point is about the prize money.” Many players have raised some weapons about it. The rules may have changed. When he wins in the championship, he must keep the prize money and scrape it when he listens to the tour card. “
His victory over Williams is a Zhao’s tournament in 49 games after starting a comeback with 3-0 White Warp (Vilius Schulte-Ebbert) in the abnormal surrounding environment of the Q Tour event in Sofia in September. It was 49 games since ranking 47th in 9th and 49th games.
The heirs are obvious
After being swept by the British title in 2021, Zhao’s ban was afraid to ruin the career of the players who chose him by the players like O’Sullivan and Jimmy White immediately after receiving the first tour card in 2016. The third winner, Williams, depicts the BRUISING Opporing 3 After complimenting the winners, after complimenting the three winners, Willias, the three winners, “after describing Opporing”
Wales Far Williams said, “What is Porter Zhao?” I came through the qualifiers only with the admiration of what he did. He did not play for two years and struck everyone. There is a new superstar of the game. “
Williams later added:
“Xintong will now be a national hero, and he will be on the first page of all news outlets and that the Chinese company is ready to throw Zillions to him.
“It is better to attack our sports and put young people at the top.”
A new era of Chinese stars
Zhao’s breakthrough victory in Sheffield, called Cyclone, will guide the bright new era of Chinese stars.
He is one of the five Chinese players who finished the season in the world’s 16th place, one of the 14s in the world’s top 50th place.
Wu yise
WU YIZE reached second place this season
Lanzhou, 21 -year -old, won the second -largest finals this season and scored up to 20 points in the world and lost to Neil Robertson and Lei PeiFan. The tall and fast-wrapped WU pushed Mark Williams in the first round of Sheffield this year, and the finalist was defeated by 10-8.
Yuan
Yuan Sijun joined the tour at the age of 17 in 2017.
Yuan joined the tour as a 17 -year -old player in 2017 and did not take long for some great people in the game to ring. Yuan quickly popped out of the relegation during the Covid, and last season, the frame was decided to head to the German master’s semi -finals through Mark Allen and Neil Robertson.
Gao
Yang Gao is an aggressive left -handed man with several world junior titles.
The 20 -year -old, 20, who is a left -handed attack with several world junior titles, wins the WSF World Crown in February and returns to the main tour next season. This year, GAO fulfilled his intention to the Crucible qualifiers and lost the final frame determinant to Lei PeiFan, Stephen Maguire 10-3.
Ray Payan
Lei PeiFan won the Scottish Open this season
Ray, a 21 -year -old, became the lowest player who won the ranking title for more than 30 years when he won the Scottish Open this season, and fought the same decision as Alan and Sean Murphy. Ray exhibited his rock temperament in Crucible even by dumping the defensive champion Kyren Wilson through another determinant on the opening day.
He’s guoqiang
He won the famous new title of the year by Guoqiang.
Hunan’s 24 -year -old, he has already edited an impressive scalp. In the first season, he sank Kyren Wilson and threw Mark Williams in German Masters to win the famous rookie title of the year. He led to two victories with Ronnie O’Sullivan, respectively, in the Championship League and English Open this season, respectively.
