Zhao Xintong became the first Chinese player to win the World Snooker Championship with a victory over Welshman and three-times winner Mark Williams at the Crucible Theatre on Monday, the latest chapter in Zhao’s remarkable rise and fall story.

World snooker chief Jason Ferguson says Chinese trailblazer Zhao Xintong's world championship triumph in Sheffield will take the sport to "another level". This is going to take snooker to another level.

Zhao Xintong has come away victorious from a Crucible final, and the 28-year-old has been informed in what regard he's held by countryman Ding Junhui's father.