A busy opening day at the International Championship has come to a conclusion in Daqing on Sunday. The fifth edition of the most lucrative ranking event in China began with a few upsets, but most of the star competitors managed early victories. Liang Wenbo, perhaps understandably, suffered a hangover following[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
The Best Player Without a Ranking Event Win
From time to time the subject of the best player to have never won a ranking event raises its head once again. It has been a popular debate down through the years, and obviously a topic which becomes increasingly more difficult to determine a conclusive outcome as time progresses and[Read More…]
International Championship Preview
Sunday marks the return of the International Championship – China’s most lucrative ranking event. Daqing stages the tournament for a second occasion after its relatively successful initial outing 12 months ago. While the week wasn’t a sellout by any stretch of the imagination, it was a marked improvement from the event’s[Read More…]
£3,150 Raised for Jessie May
English Open title sponsor Coral has raised £3,150 for Jessie May Children’s Hospice At Home. Coral pledged to donate £50 for every century break made during the English Open in Manchester and there were 63 tons made over the seven days of the world ranking event. Jessie May Children’s Hospice[Read More…]
Disability Snooker Strengthening after SWSC Success
World Disability Billiards and Snooker (WDBS) staged its biggest event to date last weekend at the South West Snooker Centre, Gloucester. The second Open Disability Snooker Championship following last year’s inaugural event saw entries almost double in number across five disability classification groups (groups 1-5) from a year ago. As[Read More…]
Liang Wenbo Claims Champion of Champions Spot
Following his maiden ranking event victory at the English Open on Sunday, Liang Wenbo has also now earned an invitation to the lucrative Champion of Champions in November. While the Chinese 29 year-old collected £70,000 for his triumph in Manchester, a further £100,000 will be up for grabs at the[Read More…]
Wonderful Liang Wenbo Wins English Open
Liang Wenbo captured his maiden ranking event title at the English Open after a superb 9-6 victory over Judd Trump in Manchester. In doing so, the Chinese no.2 has become just the fourth Asian ever to win a ranking event – joining snooker royalty from the continent in James Wattana,[Read More…]
English Open Final: Judd Trump vs Liang Wenbo
Judd Trump and Liang Wenbo will contest the English Open final after emerging past contrasting semi-final encounters on Saturday. England’s Trump continued his hot streak of late by winning his 14th match in a row to reach a second successive ranking event final. The 27 year-old wasn’t at his high-scoring[Read More…]
Semi-Finals at the English Open
It’s semi-final day in the English Open as the first leg of the Home Nations Series nears its conclusion in Manchester. Wednesday and Thursday had taken several scalps as the field was almost completely decimated. However, the quartet left in the hunt for glory at Event City is among a group[Read More…]
Judd Trump Continues Good Form Amid English Open Exodus
Judd Trump, Stuart Bingham and John Higgins were a few of the survivors on a day of mass upsets at the English Open in Manchester. The schedule at Event City came under serious scrutiny yesterday and that was heightened today with the fact that the players had to move through[Read More…]