I was having my morning coffee in London when my phone buzzed – it was my cousin from Shanghai sending a blurry screenshot of Zhao Xintong celebrating his comeback victory against Selby. The message read: ‘You’re missing history! Both Chinese players made semifinals!’
That’s when it hit me – while fans back home were watching crisp CCTV Sports broadcasts of the 2025 Snooker International Championship, I was staring at a frozen loading screen on Weibo. The video kept buffering at the exact moment Zhao Xintong lined up his game-winning shot against the former world champion.
Remember watching snooker with your dad? The smell of tea brewing, the sound of balls clicking, and that tense silence before a crucial shot? My dad used to say watching Ding Junhui play was like ‘seeing poetry in motion.’ Now, trying to stream these matches from overseas feels like trying to read that poetry through frosted glass.
What makes this particularly bittersweet is knowing this isn’t just any tournament – it’s the first all-Chinese semifinal in a major ranking event. Zhao Xintong, that brilliant 27-year-old from Xi’an, coming back from 3-5 down against the gritty Selby. Then Wu Yize, the 20-year-old rising star, demolishing Hawkins 6-0 in what commentators called ‘the most dominant quarterfinal performance of the season.’
My British colleague asked me why I seemed distracted yesterday. When I explained about the historic Chinese snooker semifinal, he genuinely didn’t understand why I couldn’t just ‘pull up the highlights.’ I had to explain how geo-restrictions work – how being 5,000 miles away from home suddenly means you can’t cheer for your countrymen in real-time.
The irony? Snooker originated in Britain, but some of its most exciting talent now comes from China. There’s something profoundly frustrating about living in the sport’s birthplace while being digitally locked out of watching your compatriots excel at it.
Later that evening, I managed to find a choppy stream through a friend’s screen recording. Seeing Zhao Xintong’s focused expression during the final frames – that slight tremble in his hand before the match-winning pot – brought back memories of watching similar moments with university friends in Beijing. We’d crowd around a small TV, arguing about shot selection while sharing packets of sunflower seeds.
Maybe you’ve experienced this too – that moment when a notification about a historic Chinese sporting achievement pops up, but the accompanying video just won’t load properly. Or when you try to share the excitement with local friends, but all you have to show them is a pixelated screenshot and your own frustrated description of what should have been a crystal-clear moment of national pride.
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