Former champions Mark Selby, Ali Carter and Mark Williams all qualified for the German Masters on the final day of preliminaries in Barnsley. However, the action on Friday saw many of the top seeds fall by the wayside in their attempt to reach the last 32 in Berlin. Shaun Murphy,[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Irish Season Continues with President’s Cup
The third ranking event of the Irish senior amateur campaign takes place this weekend in Carlow. The President’s Cup, sponsored by Eamonn Kearns, has a season low of 55 entrants competing for the €500 winner’s cheque. The top 9 seeds, including Brendan O’Donoghue and TJ Dowling who won the opening two[Read More…]
Maximum Magic for Ali Carter and Ross Muir
A dramatic day of action in the German Masters qualifiers saw two 147 breaks being compiled at the Metrodome in Barnsley. The perfect breaks came within minutes of each other, with Carter compiling his second career 147 in his 5-0 whitewash win over Wang Yuchen. Shortly after on a nearby[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan Scrapes Past Hill
Ronnie O’Sullivan won the last two frames as he fought back to beat Darryl Hill in a decider at the German Masters qualifiers. The 41 year-old, who lost to Mark Selby in an entertaining UK Championship final on Sunday before celebrating his birthday the following day, trailed 2-0 and 4-3[Read More…]
Jimmy White One Step Closer to German Masters
Jimmy White beat Zhou Yuelong 5-3 in a battle of ages to move into the final qualifying round for the German Masters. At 54, White represents the oldest competitor on the Main Tour while he was up against one of the youngest in 18 year-old Zhou. It was the pair’s[Read More…]
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
With a memorable victory over Ronnie O’Sullivan in the UK Championship on Sunday, Mark Selby earned another £170,000 to help propel an already bulging bank balance. The winnings see Selby’s total at the top of the rolling two-year rankings system reach a whopping £994,942. With just over £5,000 to go, Selby[Read More…]
Superb Mark Selby Wins Second UK Championship
Mark Selby has won the 2016 UK Championship after a marvelous 10-7 victory over Ronnie O’Sullivan in York. In a final which had a bit of everything, the ‘Jester’ once again had the last laugh in one of the sport’s biggest rivalries. While O’Sullivan was chasing a record-equaling sixth UK[Read More…]
2017 Masters Draw
The draw for this season’s prestigious invitation event, The Masters, has been made during the mid-session interval of the UK Championship final in York. Defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan will return to the Alexandra Palace in London next month in search of a record seventh Masters crown. This edition will be[Read More…]
A Corker in Yorkshire: Mark Selby vs Ronnie O’Sullivan
Two of the snooker’s best players and primary rivals will do battle in the UK Championship final on Sunday. Mark Selby and Ronnie O’Sullivan provide the dream climax at the Barbican Centre for viewers everywhere after emerging from contrasting semi-final encounters on Saturday. Selby’s superior tactical awareness was the telling[Read More…]
UK Championship in York Until 2018
The Betway UK Championship will remain at the York Barbican until at least 2018 thanks to an extension of the current agreement for an extra two years. The tournament is one of snooker’s Triple Crown events alongside the World Championship and the Masters and it has been staged in York[Read More…]