World Snooker today announced that this season’s Players Tour Championship Grand Finals will be staged in Thailand. It is good news for the South East Asian country, which has a long history hosting snooker tournament dating back to the 1980s. But it is a major blow for professional snooker in[Read More…]
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Steve Davis Set For Jungle
While the majority of the snooker fraternity is battling it out in Antwerp this weekend, a six-time world champion is lapping it up in a luxurious 5-star hotel in Australia. Of course, that will only last for a couple more days as Steve Davis will begin his quest to become[Read More…]
Ronnie in Limelight Again
Ronnie O’Sullivan is rarely out of the papers, whether it’s for his snooker ability on the table, his temperamental behaviour off it, or his ability to crop up when the limelight should be on somebody else. Stephen Lee on Monday was found guilty of match fixing, to which he is[Read More…]
Barnsley Opens Doors for Free
From World Snooker: Fans in Barnsley will be able to watch snooker’s top players in action for FREE at the Metrodome in October. The Barnsley Metrodome will stage World Snooker tournaments for the first time this season, starting with the International Championship qualifiers on October 1st and 2nd. The South[Read More…]
Champion of Champions Unveiled
There was exciting news yesterday as a new Champion of Champions event was revealed by Barry Hearn at the Crucible. The tournament, to be staged in Coventry between the 19th and 24th of November, will see the winners of all the big events this season go head-to-head for bragging rights[Read More…]
BBC Deal Extended
The BBC will continue to broadcast snooker’s biggest domestic tournaments until at least 2017, extending the current agreement by three years. The BBC will continue as host broadcaster of the World Championship, the UK Championship and the Masters until the end of the 2016/17 season, and there is also the[Read More…]
The Semi Spat
The debate is revisited nearly every year and once again chatter among journalists and bloggers, players and fans has resorted back to the format of the World Championship semi-finals. Many have their own personal view and a lot of these have been shared on other blogs, Twitter and Facebook over[Read More…]
Hearn Announces Asian PTCs
Barry Hearn made a wave of announcements for the second week in a row after another exciting press conference at the World Championship in Sheffield today. Last week, the European market was discussed as well as alterations made to the format of the Welsh Open and German Masters – not[Read More…]
Barry Hearn Announces Changes
World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn held a press conference at the World Championship today that will have an overbearing impact for the sport across various platforms. Although any one issue could be deemed as a major headline, probably the biggest revelation was the confirmation of a change in format for[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…]