Snooker legend Stephen Hendry slammed for ‘cultural stereotyping’ after comparing Chinese players to robots “To say that Chinese players suffer a 'system failure' was a clumsy thing to say and wasn't fair on Bingtao who did battle back from his errors”

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Snooker legend Stephen Hendry has come under fire for comparing Chinese players with robots. Hendry had stated that Masters champion Yan Bingtao and other Chinese stars were prone to “system failures”. The seven-time world champion made the remarks whilst commentating on Yan’s 10-8 victory over John Higgins in the Masters final. After Yan missed what was regarded as an easy shot, Hendry said, “it’s amazing. You watch the Chinese players, they play so much together in the clubs in Sheffield, hours and hours and hours and when something goes wrong it’s almost as if they don’t know what’s happened, it’s...