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…]
Author: David Caulfield
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…]
UK Championship Back in York
The York Barbican will once again host snooker’s top stars at the Betway UK Championship later this year. General admission tickets are now on sale, and tickets for the semi-finals and final will go on sale week commencing May 2. The Betway UK Championship is one of snooker’s most important[Read More…]
Crucible Contenders Down to Final Four
What started as 144, now stands as quite simply the last four. One of Mark Selby, Marco Fu, Ding Junhui or Alan McManus will be crowned the 2016 Betfred world champion on Monday. For Selby and Fu, they have each already won 36 frames of snooker to get to this[Read More…]
QUIZ: World Snooker Championship Semi-Finalists
We now know our last four competitors for the 2016 Betfred World Snooker Championship. The semi-final is when the famous Crucible Theatre comes into its own as one of the best venues for the sport on the calendar. The divide is lifted and two tables become one as the pressure intensifies[Read More…]
Ding Junhui Powers into Last Four
Ding Junhui became the first man into the semi-finals of this year’s World Championship after thrashing Mark Williams 13-3 in Sheffield. The Chinese no.1 required only two out of the scheduled three sessions to oust the twice former champion as he sent out a message to the other contenders for[Read More…]
World Championship: Quarter-Final Preview
From 144, only eight remain in the hunt to claim the 2016 Betfred World Championship in Sheffield. It’s certainly not the octet that most people predicted to be featuring at this stage of proceedings at the Crucible Theatre. Several of the expected heavy hitters have fallen by the wayside but[Read More…]
World Championship: Day Ten Schedule
Monday, 25th April 1:00PM Judd Trump 6-10 Ding Junhui (Session 3) Mark Allen 5-11 Kyren Wilson (S3) 7PM Ricky Walden 6-10 John Higgins (S3) Barry Hawkins 9-7 Ronnie O’Sullivan (S3) TV Times (Scheduled) BBC (subject to regional programming) BBC TWO LIVE, 13:00-18:00; 19:00-20:00 BBC Red Button and Online LIVE, 13:00-18:00; 19:00-23:00 BBC TWO Highlights,[Read More…]