Barry Hearn has spent 30 years telling anyone who cared to listen about how snooker would eventually become dominated by players from the Far East. It was tempting to become sceptical while Ding ...

Barry Hearn once said that he didn’t want his tombstone to read: ‘This is the man who took the World Snooker Championship away from the Crucible’. After today’s news, he can rest easy that won’t be ...