Image caption: Wu Yize with his parents Image credit: Getty Images Image caption: Wu Yize, 22, is the second-youngest winner of the World Snooker Championship
By Steve Sutcliffe BBC Sport at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
A new Chinese superstar has arrived. A year after Zhao Xintong's breakthrough, 22-year-old Wu Yize sealed a dramatic 18-17 victory over Shaun Murphy to claim the World Snooker Championship at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.
The triumph was intensely personal. Wu moved to the UK from Lanzhou at 16 with his father while his mother remained in China battling long-term illness. He described her as his rock, saying: "My mum wasn't in very good health condition for a long time... She sacrificed everything for me. At that time she told me 'don't come back home, I can manage everything'." He added that she was feeling much better and that he hoped to have her by his side more often.
Wu has used a translator at press conferences and has repeatedly recalled the difficult early years in Sheffield, when he and his father shared a bed in a windowless flat while trying to establish a professional career. That struggle, and his attacking, risk-taking style — a contrast to sno
