Zhao is with the Chinese-run Victoria's Snooker Academy, a two-floor facility just 10 minutes by foot from the Crucible. Not far away there is also the Ding Junhui Snooker Academy.

He played at an academy in Beijing – one of 300,000 snooker clubs in China – but Sheffield does ultimately remain the finishing school for most of those Asian players trying to take their ...

Why watching the Snooker World Championship at ... but also to Chinese players who base themselves there to use academies and facilities like world No 10 player Ding Junhui’s Snooker Academy. ...

“Ding has his snooker academy in Sheffield. There’s an app where you can pay for food in RMB [Chinese currency] without cash. You can talk to Chinese friends and family.

Ding has long been Chinese snooker's shining star but he's now been eclipsed by World Champion Zhao. ... “Junhui set up an academy here in Sheffield with 18 snooker tables.

“The Chinese players’ work ethic is just incredible,” said Lucky Vatnani, a former Indian player and now manager of the Ding Junhui Snooker Academy, also in Sheffield. “They play seven ...

Mr Lei plays out of the Ding Junhui Snooker Academy in central Sheffield, just above a b&m, a chain of discount stores. Mr Ding, a Chinese former world number one, opened it in 2020.

Zhao is with the Chinese-run Victoria's Snooker Academy, a two-floor facility just 10 minutes by foot from the Crucible. Not far away there is also the Ding Junhui Snooker Academy.

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 ...

Zhao is with the Chinese-run Victoria's Snooker Academy, a two-floor facility just 10 minutes by foot from the Crucible. Not far away there is also the Ding Junhui Snooker Academy.