There has been quite a lot of discussion over the last few weeks in the build up to this year’s UK Championship in York. The anticipation is as high as ever but there has been a sour taste left in many people’s mouths following the decision to alter the format[Read More…]
Snooker News
The latest snooker news, results, rankings, and in-tournament updates from the professional, amateur, women’s, and seniors tours.
World Seniors Championship
The 2011 World Seniors Championship takes place over Saturday and Sunday at the East of England Showground in Peterborough. Crowd favourite Jimmy White will attempt to defend the title he won almost twelve months ago to add to a glittering trophy cabinet that only required the World Championship itself to[Read More…]
Changes to Tour Structure Planned
The busy weekend down in Killarney for the Alex Higgins International Trophy meant that I didn’t have time to report the announcement by World Snooker for planned changes to the structure of the Main Tour. For the 2013/14 campaign, the circuit will be opened up to 128 professionals – an[Read More…]
Robertson Claims Alex Higgins Trophy
Neil Robertson beat Judd Trump 4-1 to win the Alex Higgins International Trophy in Killarney. The Australian’s victory is his second Players Tour Championship event success in recent weeks having claimed the Warsaw Classic earlier in the month. The final was a scrappy affair, not at all what had been[Read More…]
Crafty Ken Through in Killarney
Ken Doherty was the star attraction on day three of the Alex Higgins International Trophy and progressed to round four after three successive deciding-frame victories. The Irishman has been involved in some dramatic encounters down the years – World Championship finals included – but put his home fans through the[Read More…]
Allen Finds Form
Mark Allen reached the last 16 of the Alex Higgins International Trophy to the loss of just one frame on day two in Killarney. The Northern Irishman whitewashed Paul Davison and Mike Dunn before seeing off England’s Dave Gilbert 4-1 to reach the fourth round. The Antrim man has struggled[Read More…]
Killarney Kicks off
The Alex Higgins International Trophy got under way today with the preliminary rounds with mixed day for the Irish amateurs. Recent international representatives Greg Casey, David Cassidy and Colm Gilcreest were all sent tumbling before the main rounds, as was Dubliner Joe Delaney – losing 4-2 to Kyren Wilson near[Read More…]
Power Snooker Returns
It was confirmed a couple of weeks ago that snooker’s revolution of Power Snooker will return to our screens in November. Upon hearing rumours yesterday that invitations would be sent out to all of the Top 16 players in the official world rankings, I was apparently a little quick to[Read More…]
Alex Higgins International Trophy
The eighth Players Tour Championship event of the season gets under way on Thursday with snooker continuing its welcomed return to Ireland. The 2011 PTC Grand Finals at The Helix in Dublin was the first time a professional ranking event had been held in the country in six years and[Read More…]
Snooker Set-up
There was an interesting discussion over on the Snooker Island forum yesterday that proposed the use of a sets format in a ranking event. The use of sets is something that has, to the best of my knowledge, not been tried before in the sport and it is a wonder why[Read More…]