China’s Yan Bingtao playing in the 2014 IBSF World Amateur Championship final against Pakistan’s Mohammad Sajjad. Photo: AFP China’s Yan Bingtao playing in the 2014 IBSF World Amateur Championship final against Pakistan’s Mohammad Sajjad. Photo: AFP
China’s Yan Bingtao playing in the 2014 IBSF World Amateur Championship final against Pakistan’s Mohammad Sajjad. Photo: AFP
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The next Ding Junhui? ‘All I can do is be the best Yan Bingtao’ says China’s new snooker star

  • Overnight snooker stardom has been a long time coming for China’s second Masters winner
  • Ronnie O’Sullivan backs 20-year-old to beat Ding, 33, to first world championship

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Jonathan White
Jonathan White

Updated: 3:00pm, 20 Jan, 2021

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China’s Yan Bingtao playing in the 2014 IBSF World Amateur Championship final against Pakistan’s Mohammad Sajjad. Photo: AFP China’s Yan Bingtao playing in the 2014 IBSF World Amateur Championship final against Pakistan’s Mohammad Sajjad. Photo: AFP
China’s Yan Bingtao playing in the 2014 IBSF World Amateur Championship final against Pakistan’s Mohammad Sajjad. Photo: AFP
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