World Snooker News Release: Preston’s Guild Hall will stage a major snooker tournament for the first time in nine years next month, as the Players Championship Grand Final comes to the city. Many of the world’s leading players will be at the £300,000 five-day world ranking event which runs from[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Allen Survives Scare
Mark Allen came from 3-0 down to eventually scrape past amateur Sydney Wilson in the first round of the Welsh Open on Thursday. Despite claiming a brace of European Tour events this season, Allen has actually had a rather indifferent campaign and it looked like his poor form in main[Read More…]
O’Sullivan and Ding Safely Through
The opening day of the Welsh Open went by without too much of note happening. With 64 opening round encounters to be played over the short, PTC-like, best of seven format, one would expect there to be a higher number of early shocks than usual. However, most of the bigger[Read More…]
Long Welsh Open Starts Today
The Welsh Open gets under way today in a revamped format that sees the entire tournament contested in Newport. Now in its 23rd year on the calendar, the Welsh Open is the third longest running ranking event, with only the World and UK Championship in existence for a longer period.[Read More…]
Wonderful White Strengthens Tour Survival
Does Jimmy White want to stay on the Main Tour? You can bet your bottom dollar he does. The ‘Whirlwind’ produced arguably one of his best performances in seasons to beat Joe Swail 5-2 and qualify for the China Open on Tuesday. White is currently just inside the world’s top[Read More…]
Morris Through to China
David Morris booked another flight to the Far East as he qualified for the China Open in Beijing with an excellent 5-1 victory over Mark Davis on Monday. The Kilkenny cueist had already reached the final stages of the Wuxi Classic at the outset of the campaign, where he went[Read More…]
Chinese Struggle to Reach Beijing
Several of the Chinese players were dumped out of the China Open before even returning to their homeland on the opening day of qualifiers in Gloucester. The first round is taking place at The Capital Venue before the final 64 players compete in Beijing at the start of April. Seven[Read More…]
China Open Qualifiers Start Today
The qualifying round – technically the first round – of the China Open takes place today, tomorrow and Tuesday in Gloucester. Most of the top 128 professionals in the world are competing in an effort to win the one match required to book their place on the flight to Beijing[Read More…]
Murphy Continues Form in Championship League
Shaun Murphy followed up his win in the Gdynia Open with victory in Group Five of the Championship League in Crondon Park on Tuesday. It took the Englishman almost three years to capture his latest silverware when he emerged victorious in the eighth European Tour event of the season in[Read More…]
Big Interview: Ron Florax of CueTracker.net
Just as there has been an influx of new tournaments over the last few seasons, so too has the online presence of snooker increased on the internet. One of the best of these websites to have surfaced is CueTracker – which has quickly become the most concise online database for[Read More…]