After a month filled with various invitational events, snooker makes a return for the masses on the Main Tour this week with a number of qualifying rounds in Preston for upcoming ranking tournaments. The Guild Hall will stage the preliminary rounds for the Indian Open, European Masters, and World Open[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Kyren Wilson Wins World Games Gold
Kyren Wilson has won a gold medal for Great Britain on the final day of the 2017 World Games in Wroclaw. The 25 year-old beat compatriot Ali Carter 3-1 in Sunday’s final, which featured the top two ranked players in the tournament. Carter, despite a beautiful break of 113 in[Read More…]
Four Fight for World Games Medals
Four players will vie for the three medals in the snooker event at the 2017 World Games in Poland this weekend. Sixteen competitors set out for glory on Wednesday and, perhaps unsurprisingly, four of the professional cueists remain in the hunt for a medal. Only one will leave Wroclaw completely[Read More…]
Joe Perry Given Suspended Ban After Betting Breach
After a hearing before the WPBSA Disciplinary Committee that took place on the 18th of July, Joe Perry admitted that between 2009 and 2013 he had breached the WPBSA Members Rules by placing bets on matches using five different betting accounts in his own name. The facts of the case[Read More…]
QUIZ! Snooker’s Sweet 16
Snooker in the World Games gets under way today in Poland with 16 players bidding for global gold in Wroclaw. The number 16 has a special connection with the sport of snooker, having signalled the elite bracket in the game pretty much ever since world rankings came into effect in the 1970s.[Read More…]
Snooker Set for World Games
The next stop on the calendar this summer is Poland, for the tenth edition of the World Games currently being staged in Wroclaw. The World Games is a global multi-sport festival of events featuring sports that are not otherwise contested in the Olympic Games. The World Games, organised by the[Read More…]
Neil Robertson Finds Form in Hong Kong
Neil Robertson was approaching somewhere near his best as he beat Ronnie O’Sullivan to lift the inaugural Hong Kong Masters title on Sunday. The “Thunder from Down Under” defied a tropical cyclone weather warning that threatened to result in the final being played behind closed doors, to eventually overcome the[Read More…]
Hong Kong Masters Final: Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Neil Robertson
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Neil Robertson will contest the final of the Hong Kong Masters as the lucrative eight-man invitational event reaches its conclusion on Sunday. With £100,000 on offer for the champion, it’s sure to be a competitive clash between the Englishman and the Australian. Both players emerged from tight[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan Sets up Judd Trump Hong Kong Clash
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Judd Trump will face each other in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Masters after winning their opening ties at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium on Friday. In front of huge crowds amid an electric atmosphere in this inaugural invitational, the pair of Englishmen set up a mouthwatering[Read More…]
Marco Fu Delights in Hong Kong Masters
Marco Fu thrilled his legion of home support as the inaugural Hong Kong Masters got under way at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium on Thursday. The Hong Kong star came from 3-1 down to beat Barry Hawkins 5-3 and reach the last four of the lucrative invitational tournament. The top eight[Read More…]