Hong Kong coach Wayne Griffiths part of World Snooker’s plans to grow game globally
- The Welshman is appointed to a coaching panel that he hopes would encourage more armchair fans to take up the sport and increase its popularity worldwide
- His appointment is a result of Hong Kong’s success on the international scene, including that of three-time women’s world champion Ng On-yee
Hong Kong head coach Wayne Griffiths is hoping to play his part in helping to expand snooker’s popularity around the world after he was appointed to the world governing body’s new coaching panel.
Griffiths, a respected coach on the global snooker stage, is part of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association’s (WPBSA) new International Expert Coaching Advisory Panel, which held its first meeting last week.
The panel will look for ways to enhance coaching methods and programmes and ensure all federations around the world have access to accredited coaching courses.
Griffiths has been head snooker coach at the Hong Kong Sports Institute for a decade and has played a key role in the rise of players such as three-time world champion Ng On-yee.
“This appointment has been made possible off the back of good work and great results achieved by the HKBSCC, HKSI and the Hong Kong coaches and players,” Griffiths said. “The aim of the panel is to promote improved structure and more opportunities to develop coaching and grass roots structure across the world.
“We want to get more armchair viewers, of which there are over half a billion in recent years, to join the sport and support the game, to encourage current players to play more often and to get more players having access to structured coaching.