The fourth senior ranking event of the Irish campaign takes place this weekend with the DBSL Premier Cup in Carlow. 52 players, led by ranking event champions this season Brendan O’Donoghue, TJ Dowling and Michael Judge, will compete at the Ivy Rooms on Saturday and Sunday for the €500 top[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Barry Hawkins Wins Championship League Group Four
Barry Hawkins beat Mark Williams 3-0 to win Group Four of the Championship League in Coventry on Thursday. The 37 year-old was in strong form throughout the two-day event, topping the initial league phase with five wins from his six round-robin encounters to comfortably move into the knockout phase. In[Read More…]
Money Boosted for Women’s World Championship
World Ladies Billiards and Snooker (WLBS) has today announced that the 2017 Eden World Women’s Snooker Championship will carry a total prize fund of £15,000. The event will be staged at the Billiard Lagoon in Toa Payoh, Singapore, where the champion will take home a top prize of £5,000. This[Read More…]
Preview: The Masters
The 2017 Dafabet Masters gets under way on Sunday at the Alexandra Palace in London. As the defending champion, Ronnie O’Sullivan returns hoping to claim the title for a record seventh time. Standing in his way are the 15 other strong competitors who make up the elite top 16 in[Read More…]
Mark Davis Wins CLS Group Three with 147
Mark Davis won Group Three of the Championship League with a 3-2 final victory over Neil Robertson in Coventry. Davis moved into the Winners’ Group in style as he compiled a maiden maximum break of his professional career. Robertson and Davis, along with Ryan Day and Barry Hawkins, all qualified[Read More…]
QUIZ: Masters Trivia
The 2017 Masters is just a few days away and the excitement is building ahead of the most prestigious invitation event on the calendar. There has been plenty of drama down through the years in the Masters, which is the second oldest professional tournament behind only the World Championship. Most of[Read More…]
Top Players Ready for Women’s Masters
The draw for the Eden Women’s Masters to be held at Cueball Derby this weekend is now available. Three-time defending champion Reanne Evans heads an all-star field which features nine of the top ten ranked players. Former event finalists Ng On Yee, Maria Catalano and Laura Evans all return as[Read More…]
QUIZ: Masters Finalists
One week from today we will be getting ready for the start of the 2017 edition of the Masters at the Alexandra Palace in London. The prestigious invitational event has been running since 1975, making it the second longest running professional tournament behind only the World Championship itself. Open to[Read More…]
Snooker’s Next World Number One
Shaun Murphy was yesterday quoted as saying that he wishes to challenge Mark Selby at the top of the world rankings. It begged the question as to who might be the next new world number one in snooker? While it will inevitably happen eventually, one thing seems for certain –[Read More…]
Anthony McGill Adances to CLS Winners’ Group
Anthony McGill emerged victorious from Group Two of the Championship League on Thursday in Coventry. Welshman Ryan Day was again the victim in the final, losing 3-0 to McGill after previously being halted at the same stage of Group One on Tuesday. McGill only just scraped out of the round-robin[Read More…]