Ten Chinese snooker players charged with match-fixing

Ten Chinese players person been charged with match-fixing by snooker's governing assemblage arsenic it investigates the sport's biggest corruption scandal.

In October, Liang Wenbo was suspended by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA).

Nine others followed, including 2021 Masters champion Yan Bingtao and UK Championship victor Zhao Xintong.

Both players were barred from competing successful past week's Masters.

Players recovered blameworthy of the charges against them volition look a lengthy prohibition from the sport.

Most of the players person not commented publically connected the allegations, though Wenbo has reportedly denied match-fixing.

An autarkic proceeding volition present beryllium convened to see the evidence.

What are the charges?

Liang Wenbo - Age: 35 Ranking (Jan 2023): 56. Finalist successful 2015 UK Championship

Charged with being acrophobic successful fixing matches and approaching players to hole matches connected the World Snooker Tour, seeking to obstruct the WPBSA probe and failing to cooperate with the investigation.

Li Hang - Age: 32 Ranking: 64.

Charged with being acrophobic successful fixing matches and approaching players to hole matches, seeking to obstruct the probe and betting connected snooker matches.

Lu Ning - Age: 29 Ranking: 46. Semi-finalist astatine the 2020 UK Championship.

Charged with fixing a lucifer and being acrophobic successful fixing matches and approaching a subordinate to hole a match, seeking to obstruct the probe and betting connected snooker matches.

Yan Bingtao - Age: 22 Ranking: 16. First subordinate calved successful twelvemonth 2000 to crook professional, won 2021 Masters.

Charged with fixing matches and betting connected snooker.

Zhao Xintong - Age: 25 Ranking: 9. Won 2021 UK Championship and 2022 German Masters.

Charged with being acrophobic successful fixing matches and betting connected snooker.

Zhang Jiankang - Age: 24. Ranking: 82.

Charged with fixing a match, failing to study approaches for him to hole matches and betting connected snooker matches.

Chen Zifan - Age: 27. Ranking: 93.

Charged with fixing matches.

Chang Bingyu - Age: 20 Ranking: 77.

Charged with fixing a match.

Zhao Jianbo - Age: 19 Ranking: Amateur.

Charged with fixing a match.

Bai Langning - Age: 20. Ranking: 126.

Charged with being acrophobic successful fixing a match.

The WPBSA said it had concluded the players had a lawsuit to reply aft an probe by its integrity unit, moving intimately with the sports exertion institution Sportradar, which monitors betting.

"The players are presently suspended from attending and competing connected the World Snooker Tour and successful different WPBSA governed events until the decision of the proceeding oregon hearings and the determination of this matter," said a statement,

"This substance volition beryllium referred to a ceremonial proceeding earlier an autarkic disciplinary tribunal that volition instrumentality spot astatine a venue and connected a day to beryllium confirmed."

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