The inaugural China Championship came to an appropriate conclusion on Saturday with John Higgins pocketing the mammoth cheque in Guangzhou. Not only did the Scot overcome an elite field to win the lucrative invitational and collect £200,000 – the biggest prize ever awarded outside the UK – Higgins duly managed[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
John Higgins and Stuart Bingham Face Off for £200k
John Higgins and Stuart Bingham will contest the inaugural China Championship final after emerging from contrasting last four encounters in Guangzhou. Higgins comfortably conquered Mark Allen, who disappointed with a flat performance following his excellent victory over world no.1 Mark Selby on Thursday. Higgins raced into a 3-0 lead with[Read More…]
Final Four Gun for Guangzhou Glory
Mark Allen edged world champion Mark Selby in a 6-5 thriller to reach the semi-finals of the inaugural China Championship on Thursday. The Northern Irishman compiled a hat-trick of centuries as he established a 5-2 lead, only for Selby to launch one of his trademark comebacks and eventually force a[Read More…]
Eight Left in China Championship
The field of 16 has been reduced to eight after the opening two days of the inaugural China Championship in Guangzhou. Mark Selby showed no signs of relinquishing his control on the Main Tour as he comfortably outscored Anthony McGill for a 6-2 victory on Tuesday. The 33 year-old, who[Read More…]
Coral Continues Home Series Support
World Snooker is delighted to announce Coral as the title sponsor of the new Home Nations series. The three remaining events in the series – the Northern Ireland Open, Scottish Open and Welsh Open – will all be title-sponsored by Coral. This follows their successful sponsorship of the recent Coral[Read More…]
China Championship Preview
The inaugural Evergrande China Championship gets under way on Tuesday as the 2016/17 campaign continues to build momentum. 16 players have been invited to Guangzhou for the lucrative five-day event, with a whopping £200,000 on offer for the champion crowned on Saturday – the most ever to be awarded outside[Read More…]
Mark Selby Strolls to International Championship Success
Mark Selby has won the International Championship for the first time after destroying Ding Junhui in the final 10-1. The ‘Jester’ failed to replicate the high level of power scoring from his superb semi-final victory over Stuart Bingham, but gained the upper hand early and duly never relinquished his advantage.[Read More…]
Mark Selby to Play Ding Junhui in Another Final
Mark Selby has joined Ding Junhui in the final of the International Championship after a superb performance in beating Stuart Bingham 9-3 on Saturday in Daqing. The world no.1 lost the opening two frames as Bingham raced out of the blocks with runs of 58 and a terrific 127. However,[Read More…]
Ding Junhui Nears 13th Ranking Title
Ding Junhui is the first man into the International Championship final after a 9-4 victory over Judd Trump earlier in China. The home favourite, champion of this event in 2013 when it was previously staged in Chengdu, was always in control after nicking the opening two scrappy frames. The 29[Read More…]
International Championship Down to Final Four
Judd Trump continued his marvelous stretch of form by coming from behind to pip Shaun Murphy in a dramatic International Championship quarter-final in China. The Englishman will play home favourite Ding Junhui in the last four on Friday after the Chinese no.1 produced an excellent performance in ousting the defending[Read More…]