The three Players Tour Championship winners from this season so far all booked their seats on the flight to Poland today for the Gdynia Open in October. Stephen Maguire and Martin Gould, champions of the two UK PTCs staged so far, and inaugural Asian PTC winner Stuart Bingham all came[Read More…]
Author: David Caulfield
Premier League Back With a Bang
The 2012 Premier League got off to an excellent start tonight as four of the ten competitors got their league campaigns under way in Skegness. In front of a packed crowd, the foursome provided a night of thorough entertainment and high-quality snooker – with star attraction Judd Trump producing the[Read More…]
Premier League Returns
This week sees the return of the Premier League to our screens and I’m not referring to the football on Saturday. Tomorrow, the 2012 Premier League snooker campaign gets under way as ten hopefuls go in search of the coveted league title. In the last decade there has been one[Read More…]
A Goulden Moment
As the Olympic Games Closing Ceremony encapsulated the worldwide audience last night, Martin Gould claimed his maiden professional title with a 4-3 victory over Stephen Maguire at UKPTC2 in Gloucester. Gould had of course won Power Snooker at the tail end of 2011 but this was in a brutalised and widely[Read More…]
SWSA Statement
When we opened the South West Snooker Academy, just over two years ago, we had ambitions to work with as many organisations as possible to help develop the sport of snooker at all levels One of our aims was to provide promoters and external organisations the opportunity to host[Read More…]
UK PTC 2 Under Way
The second UK Players Tour Championship has been up and running since yesterday as the top pros join the fold tomorrow in Gloucester. In the midst of the mayhem and madness that is the Olympics Games in London – coming to its conclusion this weekend – snooker’s long season continues[Read More…]
Never in Doubt
Ronnie O’Sullivan last night confirmed his return to the sport by signing the WSL Players Contract and thus enabling him to be eligible to compete in the sport’s biggest events once again. By refusing to sign the contract at the outset of the new campaign world champion O’Sullivan had first[Read More…]
Doherty Denies Thepchaiya
Ken Doherty edged into the final round of qualifying for the Shanghai Masters after a 5-4 victory over Thailand’s Thepchaiya Un-Nooh. The veteran Dubliner has enjoyed a decent run of form at the start of this campaign and, despite a strong effort from his inexperienced opponent to force a decider[Read More…]
TT Races Through as Others Lag Behind
Yesterday, Luca Brecel was briefly discussed as one of the game’s rising stars but today he fell 5-1 at the hands of Andy Hicks in the second qualifying round for the 2012 Shanghai Masters. Instead, it was another teenager in Thailand’s Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon – or TT, which is inevitably going[Read More…]
Joe Jogia Banned for Two Seasons
Joe Jogia has been banned from professional snooker for two seasons after a disciplinary hearing today found him guilty of an alleged attempt at match-fixing. Unusual betting patterns had been reported prior to his match with fellow Englishman Matthew Selt at the Sky Shoot-Out in Blackpool last January. Amidst the[Read More…]