Liang Wenbo will remain suspended from all snooker activity until August after he was convicted of an assault that occurred in July 2021.
The 35-year-old was said to have been captured on CCTV punching and kicking a woman in Sheffield city centre before dragging her to the floor. Liang plead guilty to the charge in February 2022 before he was fined £1,380 and given a 12-month community order at Sheffield magistrates' court on April 1.
"Despite this case being a matter outside of the sport itself, and the fact that it had been dealt with by a criminal court, the WPBSA decided that the case was so serious that there was a case for Liang to answer for breaches of the WPBSA Rules and his WSL players contract" read a statement from the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA).
