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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alex Lawson

Snookered by China? Masters tournament owner plots Asia expansion

Ding Junhui
China’s Ding Junhui has twice reached the final of the Masters, winning once in 2011. Photograph: Isaac Parkin/PA

The owner of the Masters snooker tournament is plotting an expansion trail across Asia after the pandemic exposed the company’s reliance on China, its chair has revealed.

Steve Dawson, the chief executive of World Snooker Ltd, told the Guardian it was considering staging tournaments in India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Thailand, after its business was held back by three years of Beijing-imposed Covid lockdowns.

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