World Disability Billiards and Snooker (WDBS) recently held its third event at the Woking Snooker Centre in Surrey. The three-day competition was a landmark event for WDBS, as it was the first open to disability classification groups incorporating visual impairments, hearing impairments and learning disabilities. Following an Open Day at[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Aaron Holland Receives CrossGuns Scholarship Award
By Fin Ruane Earlier, I wrote about the final event in the inaugural CrossGuns Junior Series and who captured the two junior titles. But the last award of the series and possibly the most important was the CrossGuns Scholarship Award. It’s an award I wanted to offer to a junior[Read More…]
Event 9 Concludes Inaugural CrossGuns Junior Series
By Fin Ruane The ninth and final event of this season’s inaugural CrossGuns Junior Series took place at the Phibsboro club last Saturday. Once again a good entry field in both categories set the tone for a day of quality junior snooker. Both the CrossGuns Junior Player of The Year[Read More…]
Whirlwind Wins First Match in Almost a Year
Jimmy White won hist first ranking event match since the start of last August after beating Ali Carter 4-1 on Monday. In doing so, the ten times ranking event champion qualified for the Indian Open in July, where he’ll face fellow veteran Joe Swail. White won only one match in[Read More…]
The Big Interview: Josh Boileau
By the time the next World Championship comes around in April and May it’ll be 20 years since Ken Doherty’s famous Crucible triumph. Irish snooker is still waiting for a young talent to emerge and compete with the records that the Dubliner set – a world champion, a six times[Read More…]
High Five
Happy Birthday to, well, me! Or rather, SnookerHQ. The website is five years old today and I would just like to take this opportunity to once again thank all of you for continuing to make it such a success. Year on year traffic has increased with the recent 2015/16 campaign[Read More…]
Indian Open Qualifiers Gets New Season Under Way
The 2016/17 campaign got well under way at the weekend with the beginning of the Indian Open qualifiers at the Guild Hall. 128 players descended on Preston in an attempt to win the one match necessary to reach the venue stages of the returning ranking event. Indeed, there are three[Read More…]
Eight More Turn Pro Via Q-School
Q-School 2 has ended with eight additional players earning their Main Tour cards in Burton for the next two seasons. Michael Georgiou immediately returns despite failing to break into the top 64 in the world rankings before the end of the last campaign. The Cypriot, who previously competed under the[Read More…]
RIBSA Festival of Snooker
The Ivy Rooms in Carlow will stage a festival of snooker on the last weekend of May this month. Saturday 28th will showcase the National Scotch Doubles Championship while the National 6-Reds Championship will take place the following day. Entry for the latter is €20 while the doubles event will[Read More…]
Chinese Conquer Q-School 1
Three players from China have emerged from the first Q-School event with a two-year professional card for the Main Tour. Cao Yupeng secured his immediate return to the circuit after dropping outside the top 64 in the world rankings last season. Cao reached the last 16 of the World Championship[Read More…]