Fergal O’Brien booked his place in the last 16 of the Ruhr Open on Saturday after winning his opening three matches in Germany. The Dubliner conceded only two frames as he comfortably overcame amateurs Luke Garland and Adam Duffy 4-1, before whitewashing Michael Wasley in the third round. The 42[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Defending Champion Allen Out of Ruhr Open
The top half of the field at the Ruhr Open got whittled down on Friday as the first eight players booked their last 16 spots in Germany. Read more here.
Portugal Poised for Professional Snooker
The first ever professional snooker event in Portugal will take place in December, as the country’s capital city hosts the Lisbon Open. Running from December 11 to 14 and televised live on Eurosport (Dec 12-14), it will be the fifth European Tour event of the season, with all professional and amateur players[Read More…]
Ruhr Open Up and Running
Professional snooker returns this week with the Ruhr Open in Germany – the fourth European Tour event of the campaign. Proceedings got under way on Wednesday with the start of the preliminary amateur rounds and there was already disappointment for two of the Irish contingent travelling. John Sutton, who came within[Read More…]
Irish Foursome Head to World Amateurs
105 players from around the globe head to Bangalore for the 2014 IBSF World Championship in India this week. Of that immense number, four Irish hopefuls will attempt to capture the annual blue riband event of amateur snooker. Back-to-back Irish champions came in 1989 and 1990 when wins for Ken Doherty[Read More…]
The Dafabet Masters until 2017
Dafabet has extended its title sponsorship of snooker’s most prestigious invitation tournament, The Masters, for the next three years. Dafabet sponsored the event for the first time in 2014 and has now signed up until 2017. The 2015 Dafabet Masters runs from January 11 to 18 at Alexandra Palace in[Read More…]
O’Donoghue Wins in Carlow
Brendan O’Donoghue won the second Irish ranking event of the season yesterday as he overcame Rodney Goggins in a thriller 4-3 in Carlow. 147 Club’s Goggins had been gunning for back-to-back rankers following his success in Letterkenny last month, but fell just short as Nenagh’s O’Donoghue pipped him in a[Read More…]
Awesome O’Sullivan the Champion of Champions
The 2014 Champion of Champions concluded on Sunday with a familiar sight – that of Ronnie O’Sullivan lifting the winner’s trophy aloft. The soon-to-be 39 year-old produced a trademark stylish performance to see off Judd Trump 10-7 in an enthralling final that was played in the highest quality. On any[Read More…]
Robertson Completes Champions Semi-Final Line-up
Neil Robertson was the last man to book his place in the semi-finals of the Champion of Champions on Friday. Following a small run of bad form, in which the Australian lost in the early rounds of both the Shanghai Masters and International Championship, Robertson looked to be approaching somewhere[Read More…]
World Open Cancelled
World Snooker has released the following: “World Snooker has announced that the World Open will not take place during the 2014/15 season.” “The world ranking event was staged in Haikou, China, in 2012, 2013 and 2014, but the contract with the promoter has not been renewed. “Concerted efforts were made[Read More…]