Manya Koetse

And he said that what the country's been seeing from Zhao Xintong now to Wu Yizhe, that this is no longer just a single breakthrough.

This is the arrival of an era that belongs to us.

That is what he literally wrote.

So I feel this is really seen as a big moment for China's snooker.

Oh, yes.

Well, I think according to estimations, there are around 60 million active snooker players in China now.

So that's a lot.

And I think an important point here is that what you see with all of these successful snooker players in China is that they all started at a very early age because you see so many snooker halls.

And like you just said, even sometimes in the open air, just in the middle of the street, you see a snooker table.

So

Children will come in touch with this sport at an early age.

And you saw that with Wu himself, because he was a kid when he went to a snooker hall with his dad and immediately fell in love with the game.

And also, let's not forget that in China especially, this is very much a family effort.

So afterwards, in Wu's case, his mom actually bought a snooker table.

It didn't properly fit into the living room.

So they had the entire structure of the house altered and knocked through an entire bedroom wall to make space for the table.

And I think that detail tells you something about how seriously Wu and his family took it from early on.