Defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan was knocked out of the Welsh Open on Wednesday after a 4-3 loss to home hopeful Matthew Stevens. O’Sullivan looked erratic throughout the contest, following up some cracking pots with mediocre efforts that must have left his fans somewhat bemused. The ‘Rocket’ raced into a 2-0[Read More…]
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Ding Downed Again
Ding Junhui’s season to forget continued on Tuesday as he was dumped in the opening round of the Welsh Open by Lee Walker in Cardiff. At this point of the last campaign, Ding had already tallied four ranking event titles and would finish runner-up in this event to an equally rampant[Read More…]
O’Sullivan Through But Slams Welsh Venue
Ronnie O’Sullivan negated his way into the third round of the Welsh Open on Monday but expressed his discontent at the state of the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff. ‘Car boot sale’ and ‘shopping mall’ were just two ways that the defending champion described the venue, which changed from Newport this[Read More…]
Doherty, O’Brien, Morris China Bound
After emerging successfully from the Indian Open qualifiers before the weekend, Irish trio Ken Doherty, Fergal O’Brien and David Morris repeated the trick at the Barnsley Metrodome for the China Open on Saturday and Sunday. 1997 world champion Doherty needed all seven frames to overcome Sanderson Lam and book his[Read More…]
Welsh Open Preview
The 2015 BetVictor Welsh Open gets under way on Monday as the long-established ranking event moves back to Cardiff for the first time since 2004. That year, Ronnie O’Sullivan came from 8-5 down in the final to beat Steve Davis in a deciding frame thriller before going on to collect[Read More…]
Judge Wins RIBSA Masters
Michael Judge won his second Irish ranking event of the season with a dramatic 4-3 victory over Rodney Goggins in the RIBSA Masters on Saturday. The 40 year-old was a stalwart of the professional Main Tour for 20 years before dropping off the circuit in 2011. The following year Judge[Read More…]
Irish Trio into India
Ken Doherty, Fergal O’Brien and David Morris all qualified for the Indian Open after winning the one match necessary in Barnsley. Doherty needed all seven frames to overcome Sanderson Lam 4-3 while fellow veteran Dubliner O’Brien had a much easier time of it in his whitewash win over William Lemons.[Read More…]
Players Set for RIBSA Masters
The RIBSA Masters, the fifth senior ranking event of the Irish season, takes places this weekend at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow. Again, a relatively low number of players have entered the tournament with only 41 due take part. Of these participants, Rodney Goggins will be hoping to consolidate his[Read More…]
Bingham Wins Championship League
Stuart Bingham won the 2015 Championship League yesterday after a 3-2 victory in the final over Mark Davis in Crondon Park. With the seven players involved, the Winners Group was expected to be a tight affair and that duly was the case as only two points separated the entire field[Read More…]
Should Snooker Lose Bookie Sponsorship?
Irish amateur John Sutton’s suspension pending a hearing into an alleged betting scandal once again threw the sport of snooker into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Last week’s German Masters was a superb spectacle, in particular Fantastic Friday’s evening session which produced four out of four deciding frame[Read More…]