Snooker player Mark King has lost his appeal against a five-year ban for match-fixing. King was handed the ban in November 2024 after an independent disciplinary committee found the Englishman guilty ...

The World Snooker Championship was streamed a record-breaking 29 million times across BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app, a 25% increase from the previous year. The action ...

China's Zhao Xintong becoming world champion could help snooker's bid to enter the Olympic Games, says the sport's chair. The 28-year-old became the first Chinese player to win the World Championship ...

Watch the best shots from the 2025 World Snooker Championship at the Crucible, including "perfect" shots from Ronnie O'Sullivan and tournament runner-up Mark Williams.

Thank you for joining us during our coverage of the 2025 World Snooker Championship. We hope you have enjoyed following it as much as we've enjoyed working on it over the past 17 days. China's ...

Frame ball is a simple black to the corner - one Zhao Xintong will have potted millions of times in practice. Snookers required now for Mark Williams, who has put up an extremely brave fight ...

Watch the best shots as Zhao Xintong beats Mark Williams 18-12 in the final of the World Snooker Championship to become the first player from China to win the title.

Zhao Xintong gets in first in frame 28 but his break ends on six when a cut-back red stays up. Over to you again, Mark Williams. He's been frozen out of a lot of it and he hasn't performed but the ...

Zhao Xintong began this season suspended from snooker after a match-fixing scandal but has been tipped by Ronnie O'Sullivan to be the sport's new "megastar" if he becomes the first Chinese player ...

Six reds left on the table, Zhao has a lead of 21.