A few days ago, Chinese snooker player Liang Wenbo was fined 1380 pounds and completed 96 hours of community labor in 12 months for being filmed arguing with a woman on the street and having a physical conflict, causing an uproar in the domestic sports world.
Although Liang Wenbo apologized for his misconduct and the parties afterwards, his image in the hearts of netizens has collapsed. Snooker is one of the most elegant, quiet and noble sports in the world. Handsome competition costumes, polished and dazzling leather shoes, brilliant lights, and orderly competition occasions are the sports stages that many athletes dream of.
Ding Junhui once said in an interview that the reason why he fell in love with snooker was to be able to experience the feeling of wearing a suit to play. The physical clash between Liang Wenbo and his friends not only damaged his personal image, but also made the sport and snooker players questionable. Some netizens said that the snooker project is the most gentlemanly game, and each male player is not in a hurry, calm thinking, decisive out of the game, and is engaged in a "war without smoke".
World Number One Selby, World Champion O'Sullivan, etc., whether on the field or in life, give people the first impression of being gentle and elegant, behaving decently, and no lace news is exposed. After Liang Wenbo's incident was exposed by the British media, many foreign netizens even believed that the Chinese player's behavior would be a negative teaching material in the history of world snooker, smearing other snooker players. In the domestic snooker industry, Liang Wenbo is a player of the same era as Ding Junhui, and in 2005, the fledgling Liang Wenbo won the Under-21 World Youth Championship.
Subsequently, he successfully embarked on the path of professional players. Since 2008, Liang Wenbo and Ding Junhui have been praised by everyone as the "twin stars" of China's snooker, and in the World Snooker Championship that year, Liang Wenbo, who participated for the first time, reached the quarterfinals. In 2009, he was even more unstoppable to reach the final of the Snooker Shanghai Masters, creating the best record in the history of his career ranking competition. In the 2016 season, Liang Wenbo, who started again, won the snooker English Open championship and became the third Chinese player to win the ranking championship. Although his fame and achievements are not as good as Ding Junhui,the outside world still has a high evaluation of him.
When China's snooker players have broken out one after another, and everyone is about to forget this former predecessor, Liang Wenbo has once again entered the public eye in this way. Liang Wenbo said in an interview that the parties were his friends, and the two had a dispute over trivial matters at that time, and they failed to control their emotions and made inappropriate behaviors, and they must reflect deeply in the future. This matter has had a lot of negative impact on the Internet, and even some netizens said that they will not watch Liang Wenbo's game again in the future!
(Luo Treasurer)