Former Masters champion Yan Bingtao and 2021 UK champion Zhao Xintong amongst 10 Chinese language snooker gamers who face match-fixing fees; every participant is provisionally suspended by World Skilled Billiards and Snooker Affiliation (WPBSA), with Yan and Zhao lacking final week’s Masters
Final Up to date: 18/01/23 12:08pm
Yan Bingtao, the 2021 Masters champion, has been charged with fixing matches and betting on snooker
Ten Chinese language snooker gamers, together with former Masters champion Yan Bingtao, will face match-fixing fees.
Yan in addition to countrymen Zhao Xintong, Lu Ning, Li Cling, Zhao Jianbo, Bai Langning, Chang Bingyu, Chen Zifan, Zhang Jiankang and Liang Wenbo have been provisionally suspended by the World Skilled Billiards and Snooker Affiliation (WPBSA).
Yan and Zhao Xintong, the latter who gained the UK Championship in 2021, had been barred from competing eventually week’s Masters occasion at Alexandra Palace, with their spots going to Dave Gilbert and Hossein Vafaei.
An unbiased disciplinary tribunal will now be convened to contemplate the proof.
Yan has been charged with fixing matches and betting on snooker, whereas Zhao Xintong has been charged with worrying in fixing and betting on snooker.
Zhao Xintong, who gained the UK Championship in late 2021, is among the 10 Chinese language gamers to face match-fixing fees
An announcement learn: “The (10) gamers are presently suspended from attending and competing on the World Snooker Tour and in different WPBSA ruled occasions till the conclusion of the listening to or hearings and the willpower of this matter.
“This matter might be referred to a proper listening to earlier than an Unbiased Disciplinary Tribunal that may happen at a venue and on a date to be confirmed.”
Talking to the BBC final week, six-time world champion Steve Davis mentioned: “If the allegations are confirmed to be true, it exhibits a breath-taking degree of stupidity by these gamers.
“What impact it has on the sport, it is arduous to guage for the time being. It is embarrassing. I believe all of the gamers are conscious of the state of affairs and luckily the WPBSA is on prime of it.”
