The 2018/19 domestic Irish campaign gets under way for the senior players this weekend with the Barracks Classic set to be staged at the Northwest Snooker Club in Letterkenny, County Donegal. For the first time in several years, ranking events throughout the season will be played at various clubs around[Read More…]
Snooker News
The latest snooker news, results, rankings, and in-tournament updates from the professional, amateur, women’s, and seniors tours.
David Lilley Wins Challenge Tour Event 5
David Lilley beat Brandon Sargeant 3-1 to win the fifth Challenge Tour event of the season at the Cueball Snooker Club in Derby. Former European amateur champion Lilley won his first three matches with ease courtesy of whitewash scorelines, before passing his first proper test in the quarter-finals with a[Read More…]
QUIZ! Snooker in the 2000s: Second Edition
There’s a small lull in activity this week in between the two big events in China. Ronnie O’Sullivan earned a hefty £200,000 sum for capturing the Shanghai Masters invitational title at the weekend while next week sees the next ranking event of the campaign courtesy of the China Championship in[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan Offers Shanghai Masters Trophy to Fan
Ronnie O’Sullivan became the first player to win the Shanghai Masters three times on Sunday with an entertaining 11-9 triumph over Barry Hawkins at the Regal International East Asia Hotel. The massive £200,000 champion’s cheque that the “Rocket” pocketed for his efforts, the joint biggest amount to ever be awarded[Read More…]
Ng On Yee Retains UK Women’s Championship
Ng On Yee’s recent dominance of the women’s game continued at the weekend as she kickstarted her 2018/19 campaign by successfully defending the LITEtask UK Women’s Championship in Leeds. The world champion, who was seeded through to the last 16 of the competition, edged Suzie Opacic in a tight initial[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan Defends Shanghai Masters
Ronnie O’Sullivan superbly fought back from behind to beat Barry Hawkins 11-9 and claim the Shanghai Masters for the second successive season in China. The Englishman lifted the trophy aloft ten months ago when it was last staged as a ranking event and duly repeated the trick in its reincarnation[Read More…]
Shanghai Masters Final: Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins fought back from two frames down to deny home favourite Ding Junhui a place in the Shanghai Masters final with a deciding frame victory in China on Saturday. In a topsy-turvy affair that swung one way and then the other, Hawkins recovered from losing five frames in succession[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan Ends Kyren Wilson’s Streak
Ronnie O’Sullivan continued his defence of the Shanghai Masters with a 10-6 defeat of the in-form Kyren Wilson – in doing so advancing to Sunday’s final in China. The world number three won the tournament’s last staging as a ranking event ten months ago and is now one victory from[Read More…]
Ding Junhui Plays Barry Hawkins in Second Shanghai Semi-Final
China’s Ding Junhui delighted the home crowd late on Thursday by hanging on for a 6-5 victory over world number one Mark Selby in the Shanghai Masters quarter-finals. Ding was never behind in the contest but was typically pegged back on numerous occasions by Selby, who almost repeated his trademark[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Kyren Wilson into Final Four
Ronnie O’Sullivan will play the in-form Kyren Wilson in the semi-finals of the Shanghai Masters after both players emerged from contrasting quarter-final ties in China on Thursday. O’Sullivan, playing in his first tournament of the season, dusted off the cobwebs with an assured opening victory over Neil Robertson and looked[Read More…]