Down the Rail

After a few qualifying events (overshadowed by +100 football games) and what is now a pointless Championship League ( all credit to Jak Jones for his maiden ranking title, though ), the season is finally about to start properly, with the Shanghai Masters next week. It's fitting to kickoff in China after they have now won the last two World Championships, with Zhao Xintong in 2025 and Wu Yize in 2026. Undeniably we're already living a Chinese storm within snooker and the success of the newest Chinese generation will only drive that forward. That reaises debates all around on whether the UK has a response to that and how the British feel like they're losing grip on the sport that was so overwhelmingly dominated by them in previous decades. Particularly, I don't really care much about players' nationalities, and the fact that we have great young talent coming in good numbers is exciting to me as a fan regardless from where they're from. Still, I think it's a go...