{"id":231984,"date":"2026-06-10T14:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231984"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:54:29","slug":"world-snooker-champion-zhao-xintong-succumbs-to-crucible-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231984","title":{"rendered":"World snooker champion Zhao Xintong succumbs to &#8216;Crucible curse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLAND &#8211; Defending champion Zhao Xintong fell victim to the &#8220;Crucible curse&#8221; as he was knocked out of the World Snooker Championship on Wednesday following a 13-10 quarter-final defeat by Shaun Murphy. Zhao, 29, was the first Chinese player to be crowned world champion when he beat three-time winner Mark Williams 18-12 in last year&#8217;s<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/sport\/world-snooker-champion-zhao-xintong-succumbs-crucible-curse\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLAND &#8211; Defending champion Zhao Xintong fell victim to the &#8220;Crucible curse&#8221; as he was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231984-world-snooker-champion-zhao-xintong-succumbs-to-crucible-curse.webp",480,319,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231984-world-snooker-champion-zhao-xintong-succumbs-to-crucible-curse-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231984-world-snooker-champion-zhao-xintong-succumbs-to-crucible-curse-300x199.webp",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231984-world-snooker-champion-zhao-xintong-succumbs-to-crucible-curse.webp",480,319,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231984-world-snooker-champion-zhao-xintong-succumbs-to-crucible-curse.webp",480,319,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231984-world-snooker-champion-zhao-xintong-succumbs-to-crucible-curse.webp",480,319,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231984-world-snooker-champion-zhao-xintong-succumbs-to-crucible-curse.webp",480,319,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231984-world-snooker-champion-zhao-xintong-succumbs-to-crucible-curse.webp",480,319,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231984-world-snooker-champion-zhao-xintong-succumbs-to-crucible-curse.webp",480,319,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231984-world-snooker-champion-zhao-xintong-succumbs-to-crucible-curse.webp",480,319,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}