Former Riga Masters champion Neil Robertson heads an interesting last eight line-up that will fight it out for the 2018 edition on the final day of action in Latvia on Sunday. The Australian, the winner two years ago in the Eastern European capital city, was in trademark high-scoring form as[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Reigning Champ Ryan Day Exits Riga
Ryan Day’s first defence of a ranking event ended in immediate disappointment as he lost 4-3 to Ali Carter in the last 64 of the Riga Masters on Friday. The Welshman, who landed his maiden ranking title just over 12 months ago in the Latvian capital city, was handed a[Read More…]
Preview: Riga Masters
Viva la Riga! After one of the most prolonged spells of downtime on the professional circuit in years, snooker returns on Friday in the Latvian capital for the first ranking event of the new season – the Riga Masters. Okay, so in the beginning of July a bout of qualifying[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan Joins SightRight
In a move that demonstrates his commitment to achieving further success in the sport, Ronnie O’Sullivan has announced his decision to join the SightRight coaching stable from the start of this season. SightRight, run by Stephen Feeney, has become a well-known coaching program across snooker, darts, and golf over the[Read More…]
David Grace Wins Challenge Tour 2
David Grace became the second winner of the new Challenge Tour after winning six matches across two days of action at the Preston Guild Hall this week. The Englishman began the competition with a hard-fought 3-2 victory over Jamie O’Neill before seeing off Simon Bedford, Phil O’Kane, and James Cahill[Read More…]
Stephen Maguire and Ryan Day Avoid Upsets
Stephen Maguire and Ryan Day both survived scares before booking their places in the main draw of the World Open after deciding frame qualification victories in Preston on Monday. Maguire edged Main Tour rookie Adam Stefanow 5-4 while Day repeated the scoreline against Ross Muir in what proved to be[Read More…]
Sluggish Mark Selby Qualifies for World Open
Mark Selby began slowly but eventually got his season off to a positive start on Sunday by sealing qualification for the World Open in China next month. The world number one looked rusty as he trailed amateur Luke Simmonds 3-1 at the mid-session interval but fought back in trademark fashion,[Read More…]
Stuart Bingham and Shaun Murphy Lose
Stuart Bingham lost a qualifying match for the second successive tournament after a 5-4 defeat to Zhang Anda in the preliminaries for the World Open on Friday at the Preston Guild Hall. Shaun Murphy also crashed out with a similar loss to another Chinese competitor, Mei Xiwen, but there were[Read More…]
World Open Qualifiers to Start in Preston
A day after the conclusion of the preliminary round for the Riga Masters, the World Open qualifiers are set to take place this weekend at the Preston Guild Hall. Riga Masters qualifying finished on Thursday with the majority of the higher ranked players again emerging with early victories at the[Read More…]
Mark Allen in Rapid Riga Qualification
The Riga Masters qualifiers continued at the Preston Guild Hall on Wednesday with Mark Allen, Kyren Wilson, and Anthony McGill all progressing to the main stages. Masters champion Allen, with an average shot time of less than 15 seconds, won an entertaining contest with Daniel Wells 4-2 while Wilson, the[Read More…]