{"id":31,"date":"2022-03-10T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/snooker\/?p=27"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:46:31","slug":"zhao-xintong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/zhao-xintong\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhao Xintong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Zhao Xintong<\/strong>&nbsp;is a Chinese professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player. Long considered one of the brightest talents in the game, he won his first ranking title (also his first&nbsp;Triple Crown&nbsp;title) at the&nbsp;2021 UK Championship, defeating&nbsp;Luca Brecel&nbsp;10\u20135 in the final. With this win, he entered the top 16 in the world rankings for the first time at number nine, and became eligible to compete in his first&nbsp;Masters.&nbsp;He won his second ranking title less than two months later when he whitewashed&nbsp;Yan Bingtao&nbsp;9\u20130 in the final to win the&nbsp;2022 German Masters. In doing so, Zhao became only the third player in professional snooker history, after&nbsp;Steve Davis&nbsp;and&nbsp;Neil Robertson, to win a two-session ranking final without conceding a frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhao Xintong&nbsp;is a Chinese professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player. Long considered one of the brightest talents in the game, he won his first ranking title (also his first&nbsp;Triple Crown&nbsp;title) at the&nbsp;2021 UK Championship, defeating&nbsp;Luca Brecel&nbsp;10\u20135 in the final. With this win, he entered the top 16 in the world rankings for the first time at number nine, and became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rankings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}