Ten Chinese Snooker players have received lengthy bans from the sport following their roles in the match fixing scandal that has thrown a dark shadow over the sport in recent months.
The sports governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, today released a statement detailing the lengths of the bans. They include two lifetime and eight lengthy bans which affect some of the brightest young prospects in the sport.
Former ranking event winner Liang Wenbo is one of the players to be handed a lifetime ban. He won the 2016 English Open and reached the final of the 2015 UK Championship. He was charged with 'being concerned in fixing matches and approaching players to fix matches on the World Snooker Tour, seeking to obstruct the WPBSA investigation and failing to cooperate with the investigation." Hence the severity of his supension.
