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20 April 2010
Sheffield hosts world snooker championships
The World Snooker Championship returns to Sheffield’s world-famous Crucible Theatre from Saturday 17 April to Monday 3 May.
Four Chinese stars - Ding Junhui, Liang Wenbo, Marco Fu and Zhang Anda - made the starting line-up in Sheffield this year. The game in China is thriving. Defending champion John Higgins feels certain that Chinese sensation Ding Junhui will win the World Championship at some stage.
For the first time in the tournament's 33-year Crucible history Chinese Star brand tables will be used instead of the Bristol-made Riley version.
Sheffield and the city’s Crucible Theatre are known worldwide as the ‘home of snooker’, having hosted the World Championship since 1977. This relationship has strengthened with the creation of a World Snooker Academy at the English Institute of Sport Sheffield nurturing champions of the future.
Sheffield boasts a staggering array of world class sporting facilities, achievements and personalities. As well as being the home of snooker, Sheffield has two professional football teams, a podium full of international athletes, as well as an enviable calendar of major sporting events in the city each year.
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