Jeao Sinton: The Snooker World Champion who has no right to play in his home country
Exactly 20 years. It took for so long to have its first global snooker champion. Two distillations ago, in an attempt to increase its audience and permanently enter the Asian market, the World Snooker Association entrusted Beijing to organize the organization of the China Open, which had not been held for three years.
| The popularity of Din, also known as the Dragon’s nickname, gradually made the snooker one of the most watched sports in China. To date, there are 300,000 snooker clubs in the country. |
Each household has the opportunity to watch the Battles on the Green Succo on TV thanks to CCTV5. The figures show that more than half of the global snooker audience is precisely from China – for reference, this year’s World Cup finale was viewed by 150 million Chinese.
A record number of Chinese at Crucibel
A total of 10 Chinese have entered the main scheme in Crussibel – an absolute record for the Asian country. All this – exactly 20 years after the pioneer for China, Din Junhui, took his first rancing title at all, which unleashed a new wave of popularity for snooker in the one -millionaled Asian country. Jao Sinton of Sian is one of those who, inspired by Din, grab the cue and begin to master the art of the combinations of the white ball with the rest of the colored ones on the table.
Many, including Mark Williams and Ronnie O’Sullivan, predict Jao’s success in the early years of his professional career. The big breakthrough for the cyclone player was in 2021 when he won the UK Championship titles and the German Masters. Along with Din and Jao, success is reaping their other compatriots. The presence of Chinese in the top 16 of the world rankings and finals in major tournaments has become something natural in a sport that has been under the superiority of British since its creation.
| But, by chance or not, in the 1920s, between Din’s breakthrough and Jao’s world title, there are also increasing cases where players have been investigated for attempts to manipulate matches and unregulated bets. |
Prior to 2005, there were only three documented cases of attempts to arrange green suck. And then the scandals follow one after the other, not even passing by world champions Peter Ebden and John Higgins.
With suspended rights for 20 months
| Unlike the World Association, the Chinese holds the maximum raw sanction for Jao Sinton and confirms its initial removal from sports for 30 months – which will officially expire on July 1 this year. |
Until then, the « cyclone » has the right to participate in any tournaments, as long as they are not in Chinese territory. It does not prevent him from being met as a national hero in his home country when he arrived to defile the world title.
While punished, Jao does not stop training, with the masses of his manager Victoria Shi, who owns one of the three Chinese snooker clubs in Sheffield, available. It is in the city where the World Cup is held, living both Jao and Din Junhui, who has his own academy there.
The dream of the Olympics
| Of course, not all are satisfied with Jao’s rise. As a world champion, he automatically receives the right to be placed under number 2 to all professional tournaments for the next season. |
There were doubts about the World Snooker Association, which confirmed that, although it was an amateur status during his march to the summit in Sheffy, Jao Sinton had the right to enjoy all the privileges that professionals are taken.
Jason Ferguson, president of the World Billiards and Snooker World Professional Organization, expressed confidence that Jao would become the player who earned the most money from prize funds in snooker history. Something that seems to be a distant perspective at the moment – the Chinese has earned £ 1,306 712, and for comparison number 1 on this indicator, legend Roni O’Sullivan is nearly 15 million. However, something else that Ferguson may be right about is that the sensation created by Jao Sinton can be a huge plus for accepting snooker in the Summer Olympics program. With a huge market like the Chinese, bearing an audience of hundreds of millions, in addition to the UK traditions in sports, snooker can appear in Brisbane 2032. And if he continues to make breaks of such ease, Jao Sinton will certainly be the number 1 favorite in the first Olympic champion.
