The Riga Masters qualifying round got under way on Friday with half the field earning their place in Latvia later this month. Unlike most ranking events, the Riga Masters follows an open draw structure so there was no protection for the higher seeds in the early stages. Arguably the match[Read More…]
Snooker News
The latest snooker news, results, rankings, and in-tournament updates from the professional, amateur, women’s, and seniors tours.
Boileau Loses on Pro Debut
Josh Boileau couldn’t get his professional career off to a dream start as he was defeated by Matthew Stevens in the World Open qualifying at Preston. Boileau compiled the highest break of the match, a 51 in the fourth frame, but that was as good as it got as the[Read More…]
World Open Wins for Trump and Bingham
Stuart Bingham, Judd Trump and Kyren Wilson all qualified for the World Open after emerging from their preliminary encounter in Preston on Wednesday. But Martin Gould is out after the German Masters champion was defeated 5-4 by fellow Englishman Hammad Miah. Trump and Wilson comfortably saw off their amateur opposition[Read More…]
WDBS Stages Successful Woking Event
World Disability Billiards and Snooker (WDBS) recently held its third event at the Woking Snooker Centre in Surrey. The three-day competition was a landmark event for WDBS, as it was the first open to disability classification groups incorporating visual impairments, hearing impairments and learning disabilities. Following an Open Day at[Read More…]
Aaron Holland Receives CrossGuns Scholarship Award
By Fin Ruane Earlier, I wrote about the final event in the inaugural CrossGuns Junior Series and who captured the two junior titles. But the last award of the series and possibly the most important was the CrossGuns Scholarship Award. It’s an award I wanted to offer to a junior[Read More…]
Event 9 Concludes Inaugural CrossGuns Junior Series
By Fin Ruane The ninth and final event of this season’s inaugural CrossGuns Junior Series took place at the Phibsboro club last Saturday. Once again a good entry field in both categories set the tone for a day of quality junior snooker. Both the CrossGuns Junior Player of The Year[Read More…]
Whirlwind Wins First Match in Almost a Year
Jimmy White won hist first ranking event match since the start of last August after beating Ali Carter 4-1 on Monday. In doing so, the ten times ranking event champion qualified for the Indian Open in July, where he’ll face fellow veteran Joe Swail. White won only one match in[Read More…]
The Big Interview: Josh Boileau
By the time the next World Championship comes around in April and May it’ll be 20 years since Ken Doherty’s famous Crucible triumph. Irish snooker is still waiting for a young talent to emerge and compete with the records that the Dubliner set – a world champion, a six times[Read More…]
High Five
Happy Birthday to, well, me! Or rather, SnookerHQ. The website is five years old today and I would just like to take this opportunity to once again thank all of you for continuing to make it such a success. Year on year traffic has increased with the recent 2015/16 campaign[Read More…]
Indian Open Qualifiers Gets New Season Under Way
The 2016/17 campaign got well under way at the weekend with the beginning of the Indian Open qualifiers at the Guild Hall. 128 players descended on Preston in an attempt to win the one match necessary to reach the venue stages of the returning ranking event. Indeed, there are three[Read More…]