Zhao Xintong continues his bid to instrumentality to snooker’s nonrecreational ranks and is doing truthful successful style, making a 147 astatine Q Tour Event 3 successful Sweden connected Saturday.
The erstwhile UK Championship victor returned from his prohibition from the athletics past period astatine the 2nd Q Tour lawsuit of the season.
The 27-year-old was progressive successful the immense match-fixing ungraded successful the athletics and was recovered to beryllium be enactment to different subordinate fixing 2 matches and betting connected snooker matches himself.
As helium ne'er threw a lucifer himself, his punishment was the lightest of the 10 players who received bans and helium returned to the baize successful Bulgaria past month.
Q Tour is the amateur circuit beneath the main World Snooker Tour and offers a way backmost into the nonrecreational crippled for adjacent season.
Zhao was taking connected the talented teen from Hong Kong Shaun Liu connected Saturday successful the past 64 successful Stockholm and made a maximum interruption successful the last framework of his 4-1 win.
It was a portion of past for the Chinese cueist arsenic it is the archetypal 147 ever made connected the Q Tour, illustrating the immense prime helium possesses portion competing successful the amateur ranks. He besides made breaks of 80 and 68 successful the victory.
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