Ken Doherty, Fergal O’Brien and David Morris all qualified for the Indian Open after winning the one match necessary in Barnsley. Doherty needed all seven frames to overcome Sanderson Lam 4-3 while fellow veteran Dubliner O’Brien had a much easier time of it in his whitewash win over William Lemons.[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Players Set for RIBSA Masters
The RIBSA Masters, the fifth senior ranking event of the Irish season, takes places this weekend at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow. Again, a relatively low number of players have entered the tournament with only 41 due take part. Of these participants, Rodney Goggins will be hoping to consolidate his[Read More…]
Bingham Wins Championship League
Stuart Bingham won the 2015 Championship League yesterday after a 3-2 victory in the final over Mark Davis in Crondon Park. With the seven players involved, the Winners Group was expected to be a tight affair and that duly was the case as only two points separated the entire field[Read More…]
Should Snooker Lose Bookie Sponsorship?
Irish amateur John Sutton’s suspension pending a hearing into an alleged betting scandal once again threw the sport of snooker into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Last week’s German Masters was a superb spectacle, in particular Fantastic Friday’s evening session which produced four out of four deciding frame[Read More…]
Xiao Completes Championship League Winners Group Line-up
Xiao Guodong won the seventh group of the 2015 Championship League to seal the final place in the Winners Group at Crondon Park. The former Shanghai Masters finalist won four out of his six round-robin encounters to advance from the league format into the play-offs, where a brace of 3-0[Read More…]
Sutton Suspended Until Hearing
WPBSA earlier released the following statement: As a result of suspicious betting patterns on the match between John Sutton and Jamie Burnett at the International Championship in Barnsley on 24th September 2014, Nigel Mawer, the Chairman of the WPBSA Disciplinary Committee, launched an investigation supported by the International Centre for Sport[Read More…]
Selby’s Success in Germany
Mark Selby emerged victorious in the German Masters final as he came from behind to see off Shaun Murphy in the Berlin final 9-7. In doing so, the world champion denied Ronnie O’Sullivan the world no.1 position as he himself takes top spot in the rankings once again. Sunday’s showdown[Read More…]
Selby and Murphy for German Glory
Mark Selby and Shaun Murphy will contest the German Masters final today in Berlin. It’s fitting that arguably the tournament of the season so far will come to a climax featuring the current world and Masters champions. Murphy at times looked supreme during his hard-fought 6-4 victory over Liang Wenbo[Read More…]
Majestic Murphy into Berlin Final
Shaun Murphy is the first player into the final of the 2015 German Masters after an entertaining 6-4 victory over Liang Wenbo in Berlin. In front of a capacity audience inside the fabulous Tempodrom arena, the Masters champion held his nerve despite a mid-match wobble to see off the spirited[Read More…]
Deciding Matters in German Masters
The greatest session of snooker ever? That’s certainly what the German fans who were lucky enough to be present at the Tempodrom auditorium on Friday evening will be thinking as they awake from their well-deserved slumber this morning. For yesterday evening’s set of quarter-finals must surely go down as one[Read More…]