Mark Selby is a two-time world champion after beating Ding Junhui 18-14 in an entertaining final at the Crucible. The 32 year-old joins Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis, Ronnie O’Sullivan, John Higgins and Mark Williams as multiple winners in Sheffield. It was a superb final that ebbed and flowed throughout, with[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
World Championship Snooker in Sheffield until 2027
World Snooker and Sheffield City Council have agreed a momentous deal to keep the sport’s biggest tournament in the city for the next decade. The World Championship will remain in Sheffield until at least 2027. One of the great events in global sport, the World Championship is watched by over[Read More…]
Substance over Style
It’s Day 17 in the Betfred World Snooker Championship. That means that, by the end of tonight (or into tomorrow morning!) we’ll know this year’s worthy champion at the Crucible in Sheffield. The final’s opening day was a dramatic, tense affair which had people split down the middle in terms[Read More…]
World Championship Final Preview: Mark Selby vs Ding Junhui
It’ll be Mark Selby who takes on Ding Junhui in the final of the 2016 Betfred World Championship in Sheffield. After an epic, grueling contest with Marco Fu, the 2014 champion edged into his third final after a titanic 17-15 victory in which the clock was edging near midnight on[Read More…]
Delectable Ding into First World Final
Ding Junhui is into his first World Championship final after defeating Alan McManus 17-11 in the last four in Sheffield. The Chinese superstar compiled an incredible seven centuries – a record in a Crucible match – as he held off a gutsy challenge from the Scottish 45 year-old. Resuming 14-10[Read More…]
Crunch Time in Semi-Finals
By the end of Saturday the two finalists in the 2016 Betfred World Championship will be known. A dramatic penultimate day of semi-final action on Friday has left both encounters delicately poised, but China’s Ding Junhui has one foot in the showpiece final. The 11-time ranking event winner has conjured[Read More…]
Q-School to Provide Four Extra Tour Cards
Following a record level of entries to 2016 Q School, World Snooker has decided to increase the number of tour cards available from eight to 12. A total of 182 players have entered Q School, which runs from May 11 to 22 at the Meadowside Leisure Centre in Burton. The[Read More…]
Joyce and Smith Winners in CrossGuns Junior Series
By Fin Ruane Event 8 in this season’s CrossGuns Junior Snooker Series took place earlier in April. Entry numbers were somewhat effected by several regular entrants opting to play in the RIBSA intermediate and junior events that were hosted the same weekend. Aside from this, another day of top junior[Read More…]
Irish National Championship Starts on Saturday
Most attention this weekend understandably surrounds the Betfred World Championship at the Crucible. Yet, the next two days mark the start of an important event on the Irish amateur calendar as well – with the opening stages of the National Championship in Carlow. 100 hopefuls head to the Ivy Rooms[Read More…]
Barry Hearn Announces 10-Year Deal with Eurosport
World Snooker and Eurosport have agreed a 10-year deal to broadcast the snooker season in its entirety. World Snooker supremo Barry Hearn made his second annual press conference at the Crucible today and the eagerly awaited “huge” announcement is a continued relationship with the continental sports broadcaster. The deal includes the[Read More…]