The new snooker season gets going on Monday with the qualifying round for the Riga Masters taking place at the Preston Guild Hall. With twenty ranking events and a host of other invitational tournaments scheduled between now and the start of next May, it’s sure to be another hectic calendar[Read More…]
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Riga Masters and World Open Qualifiers Kickstart Campaign
The 2018/19 snooker season gets under way on Monday with the qualifying rounds for both the Riga Masters and World Open set to take place at the Preston Guild Hall. The pair of rankers will be the first in a campaign that will boast a total of at least 20,[Read More…]
Betting Sponsors Renew Ties with Snooker Events
Ladbrokes has renewed its sponsorship of snooker’s World Grand Prix and Players Championship, and added the new Tour Championship to the series. Those three events will make up the Ladbrokes Series of world ranking events in 2019. The Ladbrokes World Grand Prix will run from February 4-10 in Cheltenham, followed[Read More…]
Belgium to Host European Women’s Masters
World Ladies Billiards and Snooker (WLBS) announced the first staging of the European Women’s Masters on Thursday. To be held at the De Maxx club in Neerpelt, Belgium, the tournament will take place over three days in October and feature the world’s best women players, each vying for ranking points[Read More…]
Snooker Season Set for Break Off
Well, that was a nice little break – excuse the pun. After practically a month off, snooker returns next week with the start of the 2018/19 campaign as the qualifying rounds for the Riga Masters and World Open take place at the Preston Guild Hall. It’s been a much-welcomed period[Read More…]
Brandon Sargeant Wins Challenge Tour 1
Brandon Sargeant beat fellow Englishman Luke Simmonds 3-1 to capture the inaugural Challenge Tour event in Burton on Sunday. The new Challenge Tour is a series consisting of ten tournaments that are set to be staged throughout the UK and across Europe during the 2018/19 campaign. A prize fund of[Read More…]
Snooker’s New Challenge Tour to Commence
The inaugural season of the new Challenge Tour is to get under way today at the Meadowside Leisure Centre in Burton. There has been much excitement and a general feeling of progression in the sport since the announcement of a new Challenge Tour for amateur players was announced more than[Read More…]
European Masters Gets D88.com Sponsor
World Snooker has announced that the European Masters world ranking event will be sponsored by D88.com for the first time this season. The D88.com European Masters will run from October 1st to 7th in Lommel, Belgium. The tournament was staged in Lommel for the first time last season and Judd[Read More…]
Thor Chuan Leong Hammers Home in Q School
Thor Chuan Leong regained his place on the Main Tour by emerging with one of the final four spots from this year’s Q School in Burton on Thursday. The Malaysian, who dropped off the circuit at the conclusion of the last campaign, ended the hopes of Ireland’s Greg Casey 4-0[Read More…]
Michael Judge and Greg Casey Threatening at Q School 3
Michael Judge and Greg Casey are just two wins away from becoming professional players as Q School heads into its final day of action in Burton on Thursday. After more than two weeks of intense snooker at the Meodowside Leisure Centre, just 16 players remain in the hunt for the[Read More…]