Dubliners Ken Doherty and Fergal O’Brien comfortably qualified for the Australian Open yesterday – making it successive events the pair have reached early this season. Last week, the veteran duo, who have long flown the tricolour flag, won the solitary match necessary to make the venue stage of the Wuxi[Read More…]
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The latest snooker news, results, rankings, and in-tournament updates from the professional, amateur, women’s, and seniors tours.
Who’s Going to Australia?
The final qualifying round for the Australian Open takes place later today as 16 players seek to book their trip to Bendigo next month. For many reasons, the Australian Open hasn’t really captured the imagination of most of the top competitors. One reason for this is the low prize fund[Read More…]
Irish Trio Wuxi Bound
All three Irishmen on the Main Tour will be making the trip to China for the Wuxi Classic after respective victories for Ken Doherty, Fergal O’Brien and David Morris in Gloucester. Despite some good performances from the veteran Dublin duo of Doherty and O’Brien, last season will go down as[Read More…]
Evans Shows Girl Power
Reanne Evans became the first woman to qualify for the venue stage of a ranking tournament when she overcame Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5-4 in the Wuxi Classic qualifiers in Gloucester on Tuesday. The Englishwoman has been the overwhelming star of the women’s game for the last decade – capturing an incredible[Read More…]
And We’re Back…
But did we ever really go away? The World Championship ended just three weeks ago and in the meantime there was the highly competitive Q-School that saw a dozen newcomers join the Main Tour. On Monday, the 2013/14 campaign officially got under way with the first day of Wuxi Classic[Read More…]
Irish Scene: Judge Wins National Championship
Michael Judge beat Robert Redmond 8-5 in the final of Irish National Championship to claim the title for the first time. The 38 year-old, who has reached the last 16 of the World Championship, returned to the sport after a year out, a decision that now seems fully justified as[Read More…]
2013 SHQ Awards
The new campaign is just a matter of days away but let’s first take a look back at the highlights of the 2012/13 campaign with the second annual SHQ Awards. As was the case twelve months ago, I am lucky enough to be joined by regular contributors Fin Ruane and[Read More…]
Morris Regains Professional Status
Irishman David Morris yesterday came through the third and final Q-School event in Sheffield to rejoin the professional Main Tour following a one year absence. The Kilkenny cueist had been one of the most consistent players throughout all of the Q-School series this year but fell at the penultimate stage[Read More…]
Snooker in Dublin Documentary
Around Christmas time, I produced a radio documentary for Irish station NearFM about snooker in Ireland – and specifically Dublin. The feature was not aired until the first day of the 2013 World Championship but most of it is still relevant to this day and the podcast was made available earlier in[Read More…]
Irish Scene: Irish Championship Down to Final Eight
The 2013 Irish National Senior Championship was whittled down to the final eight players at the weekend in Carlow. Most of the country’s best players went head-to-head for the annual end-of-season bragging rights and it was indeed several of the leading names that advanced to the quarter-finals in a couple[Read More…]