The excitement for this year’s World Snooker Championship is building and the general expectation received another jolt of energy on Monday with the announcement of the qualifying stages draw. A total of 128 players, made up of 113 professionals ranked outside the world’s top 16 and 15 additional wildcard amateurs[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Rodney Goggins Triumphs in RIBSA Grand Prix
The sixth ranking event of the Irish domestic campaign finally concluded on Sunday with victory for Rodney Goggins in the RIBSA Grand Prix. Goggins beat David Morris 4-1 in the Hawks Nest Snooker Club in Waterford – two weeks after the event initially took place at the Ivy Rooms in[Read More…]
World Snooker Championship Qualifying Draw
The eagerly anticipated World Snooker Championship qualifying draw was announced by World Snooker on Monday. A total of 128 players will head to the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield from Wednesday hoping to win the three matches required to reach the main event at the Crucible Theatre in less[Read More…]
Mark Selby Defends China Open
Mark Selby continued his dominance in Beijing with an 11-3 victory over Barry Hawkins in the final of the China Open on Sunday. The world number one had been enduring one of his most prolonged periods in the doldrums coming into his defence of the penultimate ranking event of the[Read More…]
World Snooker Championship Qualifying Draw on Monday
While Sunday’s focus will be the rich showdown between Mark Selby and Barry Hawkins in the final of the China Open, attention will immediately turn to the upcoming final tournament of the season. The World Snooker Championship gets under way at the Crucible Theatre in just under a fortnight but,[Read More…]
China Open Final: Mark Selby vs Barry Hawkins
The final of the lucrative China Open will be contested between Mark Selby and Barry Hawkins on Sunday in Beijing. The English pair emerged from their semi-finals on Saturday to set up the showdown for glory, with a whopping £225,000 on offer for the champion. The champion’s cheque, which is[Read More…]
China Open: Semi-Final Preview
The revamped China Open is down to its final four contenders after another dramatic day of action at the Olympic Sports Center in Beijing on Friday. Kyren Wilson and Barry Hawkins both emerged with dramatic deciding frame victories over fellow English pair Jack Lisowski and Tom Ford respectively. Former champions[Read More…]
Top 16 Confirmed for the World Snooker Championship
Jack Lisowski’s defeat to Kyren Wilson in the quarter-finals of the China Open means that the 16 players who will qualify automatically for the upcoming World Snooker Championship are now known. Lisowski and fellow Englishman Tom Ford were the only two players who could have still broken into the elite[Read More…]
China Open: Quarter-Final Preview
A last-gasp clearance of 67 from Mark Williams saw Mark Allen crash out of the China Open in the third round on Thursday, leaving his World Championship fate out of his own hands. The Northern Irishman appeared set to complete a sterling comeback from 3-0 down against the three-time champion[Read More…]
China Open: Last 16 Preview
Mark Selby remains on course for a morale-boosting defence of his China Open title after emerging unscathed from his opening few rounds in Beijing. The “Jester” has only made three appearances in the quarter-finals of ranking tournaments this season in what has been the world number one’s worst spell in[Read More…]