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  3. World Snooker Tour suspends 10 players amid match-fixing investigation

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  1. Snooker match-fixing investigation: What is happening as 10 players

    6 January 2023. Getty Images. Zhao Xintong, Yan Bingtao and Liang Wenbo are among the players suspended. By Frank Keogh. BBC Sport. As snooker prepares to host one of its showpiece tournaments ...

  2. World Snooker Tour match-fixing investigation: China's Zhao Xintong

    The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) have sanctioned the players as part of a match-fixing investigation. Zhao, 25, was due to play four-time world champion Mark Selby ...

  3. Snooker match-fixing investigation

    Liang Wenbo, Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong. Ten Chinese players face match-fixing charges as an independent panel considers the evidence against them at a hearing that begins on Monday. The ...

  4. Ten suspended Chinese snooker players charged with match-fixing

    • Lu Ning has been charged with fixing a match and being concerned in fixing matches and approaching a player to fix a match on the World Snooker Tour, seeking to obstruct the investigation and ...

  5. Lengthy bans expected in snooker match-fixing probe led by ...

    Lu Ning has been charged with fixing a match and being concerned in fixing matches and approaching a player to fix a match on the World Snooker Tour, seeking to obstruct the investigation and ...

  6. Zhao Xintong among 10 Chinese snooker players facing match-fixing

    In the sport's biggest corruption scandal, 10 players receive bans from competing in World Snooker Tour, while the governing body continues to probe allegations they fixed matches, approached ...

  7. China's Zhao and Zhang suspended amid match-fixing investigation

    LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - China's Zhao Xintong and Zhang Jiankang have been suspended from the World Snooker Tour as part of a match-fixing investigation that has already sidelined eight compatriots.

  8. Snooker match fixing: Two further Chinese players suspended from World

    Former UK champion Zhao Xintong and Zhang Jiankang have joined the list of players suspended from the World Snooker Tour during an investigation into alleged match-fixing.. Zhao, who beat Luca ...

  9. World Snooker Tour suspends 10 players amid match-fixing investigation

    Multiple players have been suspended from the World Snooker Tour during as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged match-fixing. Zhao Xintong, the 2021 UK Championship winner, and Zhang ...

  10. Snooker match-fixing: Yan Bingtao among 10 players to be charged by

    18-01-2023 • 8 min read. The snooker world has been rocked after news broke that former Masters champion and current world number 16 Yan Bingtao is among 10 Chinese players charged in relation ...

  11. China's Zhao Xintong and Zhang Jiankang suspended in snooker match

    Former UK champion Zhao Xintong and Zhang Jiankang have become the latest Chinese players to be suspended from the World Snooker Tour during an investigation into alleged match-fixing.

  12. Ten Chinese snooker players hit with match-fixing charges

    18 Jan 2023. Ten Chinese snooker players, including some of the sport's biggest names, have been charged in an alleged match-fixing scandal that has plunged the game into a major corruption ...

  13. Yan Bingtao Suspended from World Snooker Tour Amid Match-Fixing

    The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association has suspended Yan Bingtao from the World Snooker Tour as part of an ongoing investigation into match-fixing.

  14. Snooker match-fixing investigation

    Zhang Jiankang - Age: 24. Ranking: 82. Charged with fixing a match, failing to report approaches for him to fix matches and betting on snooker matches. Chen Zifan - Age: 27. Ranking: 93. Charged ...

  15. Snooker match-fixing: What happens next after 10 players are charged

    The 10 players suspended from World Snooker Tour events as they were investigated for their involvement in match-fixing have now all been hit with charges as the WPBSA has decided...

  16. Ten Chinese players face match-fixing charges

    Ten Chinese snooker players face match fixing charges following an investigation by the governing World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA)'s integrity unit, it announced on ...

  17. Former Masters champion Yan Bingtao suspended from World Snooker Tour

    The former Masters champion Yan Bingtao has been suspended from the World Snooker Tour after an investigation into match-fixing, the sport's governing body, the WPBSA, has announced. The Chinese ...

  18. Yan Bingtao suspended from World Snooker Tour amid match-fixing

    Yan Bingtao has been suspended by the WPBSA (Isaac Parkin/PA) (PA Wire) Former Masters champion Yan Bingtao has been suspended from the World Snooker Tour amid an ongoing investigation into match ...

  19. Snooker's world No 9 suspended in match-fixing investigation

    Zhao Xintong, the 2021 UK Snooker Champion, has become the highest ranked and 10th Chinese player to be suspended as part of an investigation into match-fixing. Ranked ninth in the world, Zhao was ...

  20. List of snooker players investigated for match-fixing

    Snooker has seen corruption allegations since its inception as a professional sport. Professional player and commentator Willie Thorne considered match-fixing endemic to snooker, noting that he himself was offered a bribe to throw a match. The earliest known case of corruption in the game involved Joe Davis, pioneer of the professional sport and winner of the first 15 world championships, who ...

  21. Two more players banned from World Snooker Tour in ongoing match-fixing

    The World Snooker Tour (WST) has seen another two suspensions as the investigation into allegations of manipulating outcomes of matches for betting purposes continues.. Zhao Xintong and Zhang Jiankang both can no longer attend or compete at the competition, a decision made by WPBSA Chairman Jason Ferguson.. The Chinese professionals see the decision with immediate effect.

  22. Yan Bingtao: Former Masters champion suspended as part of match-fixing

    Yan Bingtao won the Masters on his debut in 2021 aged 20. Former Masters champion Yan Bingtao has been suspended from the World Snooker Tour as part of an ongoing investigation into match-fixing ...

  23. World Snooker Championship 2024: Snooker must 'embrace' new ...

    But his comments, which came amid a match-fixing inquiry involving 10 Chinese players, ... World Snooker Tour. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Top Stories