Age, Biography and Wiki
Zhao Xintong was born on April 3, 1997, in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. As of May 2025, he is 28 years old. He joined the professional World Snooker Tour in 2016 and quickly gained attention as a talented teenage player with high potential. Zhao made history by becoming the first Chinese player to win the World Snooker Championship in 2025, defeating Mark Williams in the final at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. This victory is a historic milestone for Asian snooker. Prior to this, Zhao won the 2021 UK Championship and the 2022 German Masters, where he secured a rare 9–0 final win. Despite a setback in 2023 due to a ban related to a corruption scandal, Zhao made a strong comeback to reach the pinnacle of his sport, earning him comparisons to Roger Federer in snooker by legends like Ronnie O'Sullivan.
| Occupation | Snooker Player |
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| Date of Birth | 3 April 1997 |
| Age | 28 Years |
| Birth Place | Bao'an District, Shenzhen, China |
| Horoscope | Aries |
| Country | China |
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His father, Zhao Xiaowei, who transferred from Xi'an to Songgang in 1995, is a finger reconstruction surgeon and the Vice President of Songgang People's Hospital as of the 2010s. Zhao's mother Wen Anxiao is a Songgang local and the head nurse of the same hospital as of the 2010s.
Zhao's early exposure to snooker was shaped by Shenzhen, which is known for having a well-established snooker culture, as the sport spread across the British Hong Kong–Shenzhen border in the 1980s. Zhao began playing at age eight on snooker tables set up outside stores near his house. He was not tall enough for the snooker table but, rather than using a stool, he made up his height by wearing roller skates when practising at a snooker training club in Luohu, Shenzhen, partly to look cool. He could move around the table quickly on roller skates and developed the habit of quick firing. His parents set up a snooker table in their house when Zhao was ten years old.
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Zhao was banned for 30 months and ordered to pay £7,500 in costs, but the WPBSA reduced the ban to 20 months because of Zhao's early admissions and his guilty plea. The Chinese Billiards and Snooker Association (CBSA) upheld the original 30-month ban. WPBSA regulations state that players need to be in "good standing" with their national federation to compete on the World Snooker Tour. However, the chair of the WPBSA, Jason Ferguson, confirmed that Zhao's 30-month ban would apply only to events sanctioned and governed by the CBSA. He was therefore eligible to enter the 202425 Q Tour after 1 September 2024 (the date on which the WPBSA ban expired), as well as any other amateur competition not sanctioned by the CBSA.
Education
In summary, Zhao Xintong is a young Chinese snooker player born in 1997, who has rapidly risen to international prominence by becoming the first Asian World Snooker Champion in 2025. His career is marked by early promise, top-level victories, a setback due to a ban, and an impressive return to the top of the sport.
After graduating from Songgang No.1 Elementary School, he dropped out of Songgang Middle School in 2009 to train full time. It was rare in China for the family's only child to have parental support for quitting middle school. In 2013, he trained at the newly established WPBSA-CBSA Snooker Academy in Changping, Dongguan.
He was narrowly defeated in the first round of the ACBS Asian Snooker Championship. He won three games in the first event of the 2015 Q School but then lost 34 to Alexander Ursenbacher in the penultimate round. He reached the final round of the second event before losing 34 to Duane Jones in a finish in the deciding frame. He completed a 60 of Stuart Carrington to qualify for the 2015 International Championship before losing 26 to John Higgins in the first round. Zhao made his first appearance at a Triple Crown event at the UK Championship, but lost in the first round. He also qualified for the German Masters and Welsh Open, but was knocked out in the opening round of each. He reached the final of the 2015 IBSF World Snooker Championship, but lost 68 to Pankaj Advani. However, Zhao won a two-year card for the main tour after Advani declined the invitation.
Zhao was not ranked high enough at the end of the 201718 season to retain his spot on the World Snooker Tour, so he entered 2018 Q School in a bid to win back his place. He defeated Dechawat Poomjaeng in the second event final of Q School to regain his professional status. He reached his first professional ranking semi-finals at the 2018 China Championship, where he lost 46 to Mark Selby. He reached the quarter-finals of the Welsh Open, losing 25 to eventual finalist Stuart Bingham. Zhao qualified for the World Snooker Championship for the first time in 2019 but lost 710 to Selby in the first round.
