While the majority of the snooker fraternity is battling it out in Antwerp this weekend, a six-time world champion is lapping it up in a luxurious 5-star hotel in Australia. Of course, that will only last for a couple more days as Steve Davis will begin his quest to become[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Antwerp Open Preview
The tournaments are coming thick and fast and the next stop is Belgium for the third annual Antwerp Open. Mark Allen is the defending champion and enters the event in good form having captured the last two Players Tour Championship titles on the European Tour – in Ruhr and Gloucester.[Read More…]
Irish Scene: McCrudden wins Event Two
Martin McCrudden won the second Premier Tour event of the Irish season after a crushing 4-0 defeat of Robert Murphy in the final on Sunday. McCrudden joins Rodney Goggins on the champions list so far this season after coming through unscathed at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow. In the early[Read More…]
Jimmy White’s Tour Survival at Breaking Point
Jimmy White has been a professional on the Main Tour since 1980. In those 33 years, he has won almost everything that the game has to offer. He has delighted a legion of followers who have supported him through thick and thin. He went through many, many ups and downs[Read More…]
It’s a Young Man’s Game After All
Mark Allen won the Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup in Gloucester yesterday, making it back-to-back European Tour titles. The Northern Irishman was rarely troubled throughout the weekend as he collected a second trophy in a month following his success in October’s Ruhr Open in Germany. Allen overcame Judd Trump in the[Read More…]
Finals Day in Gloucester
The last 16 line-up for the Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup was confirmed on Saturday at the Capital Venue in Gloucester. The likes of David Morris and Judd Trump already booked their place on Friday and were joined by eight further players yesterday. World no.1 Neil Robertson was banging in more[Read More…]
Morris Mounts Gloucester Challenge
David Morris got back to winning ways in Gloucester as he won three matches at the Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup on Friday. The Kilkenny cueist was pushed to the wire in his opening bout with Malta’s Alex Borg, needing all seven frames to finally prevail in a decider 4-3. However,[Read More…]
Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup Preview
The Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup takes place this weekend at The Capital Venue in Gloucester. In fact, the annual tournament now in its third year in the Players Tour Championship series, began yesterday with the preliminary amateur rounds. Those come to a conclusion today with Irish former professional Leo Fernandez[Read More…]
New Venue for World Championship Qualifiers
The qualifying rounds of snooker’s biggest tournament, the World Championship, will be held at the prestigious Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield next year. Ponds Forge stages a range of national and international sporting events every year and will host snooker for the first time with the World Championship[Read More…]
What We Learned from the International Championship
Yesterday saw the conclusion of the 2013 International Championship, the second year of the event held in Chengdu, China. It was another successful staging of a tournament that is quickly becoming one of the most prestigious on the calendar. Even though it is still a fledgling initiative, the International has[Read More…]