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Coronavirus causes World Snooker Championship at Crucible to be postponed

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Next month’s Betfred World Championship at the Crucible has been postponed. The expected decision has been confirmed with an official announcement from World Snooker Tour due on Friday morning.

The 17-day tournament in Sheffield becomes the latest major sporting event to be cancelled, suspended or postponed. And a tournament due to start on April 18 and preceded by a 128-player qualifying event from April 8 looked doomed as the coronavirus pandemic grew in the UK.

This week’s scheduled Tour Championship was first moved behind closed doors and then postponed until July after discussions with broadcasters ITV.

And five-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan claimed on Thursday that many Chinese players were desperate to go home. It will be the

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