Chinese Snooker Players 中国斯诺克选手
[audio]http://www.24en.com/bbc/dl_mp3/bbc_chinese_snooker_players18.mp3[/audio][color=#3f3f3f][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=12px]Snooker is a big sport in China. Sources suggest there are 300 million snooker players there, which is [b]more than the rest of the world put together[/b].
[p=21, 2, left]So it's no surprise that some of the world's best players come from China. They have been [b]showing off[/b] their talent at the World Snooker Championship, which takes place every year here in the UK at the Crucible Theatre in the northern English city of Sheffield.[/p][p=21, 2, left]The World Snooker Championship is the most important event in professional snooker [b]in terms of[/b] prize money, [b]prestige[/b] and [b]world ranking points[/b].[/p][p=21, 2, left]This year four of the [b]contenders[/b] for World Snooker Champion were Chinese – Marco Fu, Liu Chuang, Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo. Liu Chuang and Liang Wenbo are [b]making their debut[/b] in Sheffield this year, in fact.[/p][p=21, 2, left]However, only one of those players, Liang Wenbo, has [b]made it to the final eight[/b]. Wenbo is currently officially [b]ranked[/b] 53 in the world. His best performance [b]to date[/b] was when he reached the last 32 in the 2006 Welsh Open, so to get through to the final eight in the World Championship is quite an achievement. He may go even further.[/p][p=21, 2, left]The left-handed snooker [b]pro[/b] comes from Heilongjiang and it is hoped he will follow the success of [b]fellow countryman[/b] Ding Junhui.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Wenbo is the first Chinese player to ever reach the[b] quarter finals[/b] of the Championship and he just [b]sneaked[/b] through after an extremely tough second [b]round[/b] game against Northern Ireland's Joe S[url=http://d.24en.com/s/?wd=wail]wail[/url].[/p][p=21, 2, left]After a long and [b]enthralling[/b] battle, Wenbo finally won 13-12 and he now faces twice World Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan. This promises to be another difficult game for the Chinese [b]rising star[/b] as O'Sullivan reached the last eight with an amazing [b]maximum break[/b] of 147.[/p][p=21, 2, left]O'Sullivan would have picked up £157,000 (more than 2 million RMB) prize money but another player, England's Ali Carter, has now matched his achievement in the same tournament. O'Sullivan will have to share the money with Carter, and indeed with anyone else who gets a maximum break before the end of the championship.[/p][/size][/font][/color]
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