Barry Hawkins produced a scintillating display of heavy scoring to beat Ryan Day 10-7 and win the World Grand Prix in Preston. The contest had been billed as quite a close looking affair, with both men fairly evenly matched on paper. As the top 16 player, Hawkins naturally began as[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Brendan O’Donoghue Wins Irish Masters
Brendan O’Donoghue has won his second ranking event of the Irish amateur season after victory in the Douglas Jewellers Irish Masters in Carlow. The Nenagh native beat Robert Murphy 4-1 in the final at the Ivy Rooms, the same player he overcame for success in the Barracks Classic at the[Read More…]
Welsh Open Preview
The World Grand Prix reaches its conclusion later today but thoughts will immediately turn to the next ranking event, which starts in Cardiff with the Coral Welsh Open on Monday. Staged every year since 1992, the Welsh Open is the third longest continuously running ranking event behind only the World[Read More…]
QUIZ! Welsh Open
The World Grand Prix is yet to conclude but this extremely hectic month of February shows no sign of letting up with the Welsh Open set to commence on Monday. Before the Barry Hearn era began in 2010, the Welsh Open had been considered by some as one of the[Read More…]
World Grand Prix: Semi-Final Preview
After eight sessions of snooker, the field of 32 in the World Grand Prix has been whittled down to the final four in Preston. The world’s top seven ranked players, and Ronnie O’Sullivan, are notable in their absence but the line-up remains compelling in the mere fact that it’s so[Read More…]
Improving Philip Browne Looks Forward to Irish Masters
The fifth senior ranking event of the Irish season takes place this weekend with the Douglas Jewellers Irish Masters in Carlow. A total of 56 competitors will descend on the Ivy Rooms this Saturday, with top seed Michael Judge looking to extend his recent dominant form. The 42 year-old is gunning[Read More…]
Liang Wenbo Sets Up Barry Hawkins Semi-Final
Barry Hawkins and Liang Wenbo became the first semi-finalists in the World Grand Prix after emerging past two rounds at the Guild Hall on Thursday. The rather peculiar scheduling for this event meant that the top half of the draw was forced to contest both the round of 16 and[Read More…]
Shaun Murphy’s World Grand Prix Reign Continues
Defending champion Shaun Murphy came from behind to beat Ding Junhui and reach the quarter-finals of the World Grand Prix on Wednesday in Preston. Ding led 2-0 and 3-2 but didn’t have a genuine opportunity to seal victory as Murphy limited his opponent to just four points in the last[Read More…]
New snooker triangle created and used by referee Jan Verhaas
By Paul Beck It was several years ago that my colleague and I decided to take time out and try to develop what snooker skills we had. We arranged to rendezvous at a local watering hole and started to play. It wasn’t long before some of our skills resurfaced and[Read More…]
Robotic Ronnie O’Sullivan into Last 16
Ronnie O’Sullivan compiled a brace of centuries as he beat Yan Bingtao 4-2 in the first round of the World Grand Prix in Preston. The ‘Rocket’ began and ended the game in similar fashion, recording breaks of 137 and 128 to see off the 16 year-old challenger from China. Yan[Read More…]