The first day of the inaugural Riga Open took place today and it was an excellent day for the Irish amateurs in Latvia. Martin McCrudden, John Sutton, Josh Boileau and TJ Dowling all emerged through the preliminary stage to book their places in the first round proper. Irish senior national[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Riga Open Marks Snooker’s Return
The first European Tour event of the 2014/15 campaign gets under way tomorrow as the Players Championship series welcomes Latvia as a destination for the first time. Capital city Riga will play host as snooker welcomes its newest addition to its growing family as the sport continues its long-term ambition[Read More…]
Riga Open Sponsored by Kaspersky Lab
World Snooker is delighted to announce Kaspersky lab as the title sponsor of the new Riga Open, which startstomorrow. The Kaspersky lab Riga Open is the first ever professional snooker tournament in Latvia and the first event of the 2014/15 European Tour series. Kaspersky lab is a developer of secure[Read More…]
Snooker Returns in August
Snooker’s summer hiatus is almost at an end with just a week until the players return for the inaugural Riga Open in Latvia. There’ll be no excuses of burnout necessary, instead there may be some who have benefited a little too much from the break before the first European Tour[Read More…]
Blackpool Week of Snooker
Blackpool will stage a sensational week of snooker next March with the World Seniors Championship followed by the dramatic Shoot-Out. The World Seniors will take place at the Blackpool Tower Circus Arena for the first time, on Monday 2 March and Tuesday 3 March, 2015. Then the Shoot-Out returns to[Read More…]
Stinted Season Opener Damaging to Snooker
The Australian Goldfields Open ended on Sunday and thus concluded the unusual entrée to the new season. There was less than three weeks of a break in between the climax of the 2013/14 campaign, in which Mark Selby captured his maiden World Championship crown in Sheffield, and the opening segment[Read More…]
Trump Denies Robertson in Australia
Judd Trump has won the 2014 Australian Goldfields Open after a 9-5 victory over Neil Robertson in Bendigo. It marks the Englishman’s first ranking event title success since he captured the International Championship, where he also overcame Robertson in the final, almost two years ago. It was an unexpected[Read More…]
Australian Open Final Preview
Neil Robertson and Judd Trump will contest the Australian Goldfields Open final after emerging from their last four clashes unscathed in Bendigo. Trump’s prolific scoring power proved too much for challenger Xiao Guodong as he compiled big breaks of 114, 101, 94, 69 and two 67s en route to a[Read More…]
Four Left in Australia
Neil Robertson continued his quest on Thursday to capture glory in his home event, the Australian Open in Bendigo. The 32 year-old was in a tough encounter with Englishman Robert Milkins in his quarter-final bout today when the scores were locked at 2-2 at the interval. Yet, Robbo was able[Read More…]
Rampant Robertson Destroys Jones
Neil Robertson continued his fine start to the season as he easily dismantled the challenge of Jamie Jones to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Goldfields Open in Bendigo. Robertson has already begun the campaign in the same fashion as he did this time last year by capturing the opening[Read More…]