Tuesday marks the opening day in the 2016 Ladbrokes Players Championship in Manchester. Half of the last 32 matches will be played out today while the remaining first round encounters take place on Wednesday. Much like the World Grand Prix in Llandudno a couple of weeks ago, the early stages[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Players Championship Preview
After the last week of rest this season, snooker returns to our screens on Tuesday with the Players Championship in Manchester. 32 players make up the field at Event City, in much the same format which shaped the recent World Grand Prix. It’ll be best of sevens until the semi-finals,[Read More…]
Selby Withdraws from Players Championship and China Open
News has filtered through today that Mark Selby has withdrawn from the upcoming two ranking events due to personal reasons. The world no.1 was expected to feature prominently at the Players Championship next week in Manchester before flying to Beijing to defend his China Open crown. However, the 32 year-old[Read More…]
Carter Coping With Crohn’s
Ali Carter believes that his new vegan diet will help him tackle Crohn’s Disease as he looks ahead to next week’s Ladbrokes Players Championship in Manchester. Three-time ranking event winner Carter has suffered from the illness for 13 years and was recently told by his consultant he may need more[Read More…]
Boileau Seeks Sponsorship to Support Tour Ambitions
“My name is Josh Boileau and I’m trying to raise money for my snooker career.” These are the honest words of European under-21 champion Josh Boileau, who is seeking sponsorship ahead of his rookie season on the professional Main Tour. The 20 year-old’s triumph in Poland earlier this year was[Read More…]
Framing Formats
There has been a lot of chatter lately on social media surrounding the various formats used in events. Since the beginning of the Barry Hearn era around six years ago, there has been a dramatic influx of tournaments on the calendar. This has been widely hailed as a huge success,[Read More…]
Murphy Enjoys World Grand Prix Victory
Shaun Murphy won the World Grand Prix on Sunday after a 10-9 victory over Stuart Bingham in Llandudno. In doing so, the 33 year-old gained a modicum of revenge for his defeat to Bingham in the final of the World Championship last May. For large quantities of the match in[Read More…]
CrossGuns Junior Series Event 7 on Saturday
The seventh meeting in the inaugural CrossGuns Junior Series will take place next Saturday, March 19th in Dublin. CrossGuns Snooker Club owner Fin Ruane began the initiative back in September of 2015, with the promise of staging a single day of dedicated competition for Under-19 and Under-14s alike each month until May. At[Read More…]
Murphy and Bingham in Repeat Final
Stuart Bingham and Shaun Murphy will contest the final of the World Grand Prix on Sunday. It marks the first time that the pair have met each other since their World Championship showdown at the Crucible ten months ago. Bingham got the better of the 2005 champion in a close[Read More…]
RIBSA Grand Prix in Carlow
The RIBSA Grand Prix takes place on Saturday at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow. The sixth ranking event of the Irish amateur season has a year-low 43 entries but the majority of the front-runners at the top of the rankings are in attendance. Among them is recent European Under-21 champion Josh[Read More…]