Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Selby will do battle in a mouthwatering Northern Ireland Open semi-finals encounter on Saturday at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. The pair of Englishmen will renew one of the sport’s biggest rivalries after emerging from their respective quarter-final ties with David Gilbert and Thepchaiya Un-Nooh unscathed.[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Preview: Northern Ireland Open Quarter-Finals
Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Selby, and Judd Trump are among the eight players who have reached the Northern Ireland Open quarter-finals at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. The trio of stars emerged from two rounds on Thursday to reach Friday’s last eight, where the format will increase from the best of[Read More…]
Defending Champion Mark Williams Beaten by Ali Carter
Defending champion Mark Williams is out of the Northern Ireland Open after a scrappy 4-3 defeat to Ali Carter at the Waterfront Hall on Wednesday. The Welshman captured a first ranking title in almost seven years when he edged Yan Bingtao in a dramatic final twelve months ago, a victory[Read More…]
Barry Hearn: “prize money has grown from £3.5 million to £15 million.”
World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn has taken apparent swipe at recent comments made by Ronnie O’Sullivan, saying that snooker “is a land of opportunity.” In recent days, O’Sullivan has taken to social media platform Twitter to voice his discontent with the current state of the game. The world number three,[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan Starts Strongly in Belfast
Ronnie O’Sullivan produced another scintillating display of scoring to comfortably beat Soheil Vahedi 4-0 in the first round of the Northern Ireland Open on Tuesday in Belfast. O’Sullivan had spent much of the morning before his game on social media complaining about the current state of the sport. In particular,[Read More…]
Mark Allen Beaten in Northern Ireland Open
Mark Allen’s bid to claim a title on home soil ended in immediate disappointment as he exited the Northern Ireland Open in the first round on Monday. In a day full of upsets, Stuart Bingham’s bid for an unlikely million pound bonus for capturing all four Home Nations trophies in[Read More…]
Northern Ireland Open Draw and Preview
The next stop on the snooker roadshow is Belfast with the return of the Northern Ireland Open draw to the Waterfront Hall this week from Monday. Mark Williams is the defending champion after his dramatic 9-8 triumph over teenager Yan Bingtao in last year’s final. It was a win that[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan is the Champion of Champions Again
Ronnie O’Sullivan is the Champion of Champions for the third time after a rollercoaster 10-9 victory over Kyren Wilson in Sunday’s final in Coventry. The world number three, who previously won the title in 2013 and 2014 before finishing runner-up in both of the last two editions at the Ricoh[Read More…]
Champion of Champions Final: Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Kyren Wilson
Kyren Wilson beat Mark Allen 6-5 in a thrilling match to set up a Champion of Champions title decider with Ronnie O’Sullivan in Coventry on Sunday. The Kettering cueist held off a late charge from Allen to book his place in the final at the Ricoh Arena for the first[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan Gains Revenge on Shaun Murphy at Ricoh Arena
Ronnie O’Sullivan progressed to the final of the Champion of Champions for a fifth time after a 6-3 victory over Shaun Murphy at the Ricoh Arena on Friday evening. The two-time champion, who has never failed to reach the title deciding match in Coventry when he has entered, avenged his[Read More…]