Details for the criteria that will be used to determine the Main Tour players for the 2019/20 season were published on Wednesday.
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2018 Highs and Lows – Part One
As 2018 draws to a close for snooker players and fans alike, it’s time to reflect on what has been another enthralling year in the game.
Betting Companies Ban on TV Poses Possible Future Threat to Snooker
Remember the days when the World Championship was sponsored by Embassy and the Masters was otherwise know as the Benson & Hedges?
Coral Cup Replaces Ladbrokes Series
This season’s World Grand Prix, Players Championship, and Tour Championship have been rebranded as the Coral Cup ahead of the series launch in the new year. These tournaments were previously sponsored by Ladbrokes but the Ladbrokes Coral Group has taken a strategic decision to make the change to the Coral[Read More…]
Barry Hearn: “prize money has grown from £3.5 million to £15 million.”
World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn has taken apparent swipe at recent comments made by Ronnie O’Sullivan, saying that snooker “is a land of opportunity.” In recent days, O’Sullivan has taken to social media platform Twitter to voice his discontent with the current state of the game. The world number three,[Read More…]
World Snooker Postpones Indian Open
World Snooker has decided to postpone next month’s Indian Open in the wake of the floods that have devastated parts of the country last week. It has yet to be determined when the tournament will now take place, with the qualifying round already completed in Preston a week ago. “It[Read More…]
Challenge Tour Event in Hungary
The European city of Budapest will stage a tournament on snooker’s new Challenge Tour later this season. The Challenge Tour event in Hungary, which will be the eighth of the season, will run on November 24 and 25 at the Snooker Terminal academy in Budapest. The new Challenge Tour is[Read More…]
Betting Sponsors Renew Ties with Snooker Events
Ladbrokes has renewed its sponsorship of snooker’s World Grand Prix and Players Championship, and added the new Tour Championship to the series. Those three events will make up the Ladbrokes Series of world ranking events in 2019. The Ladbrokes World Grand Prix will run from February 4-10 in Cheltenham, followed[Read More…]
European Masters Gets D88.com Sponsor
World Snooker has announced that the European Masters world ranking event will be sponsored by D88.com for the first time this season. The D88.com European Masters will run from October 1st to 7th in Lommel, Belgium. The tournament was staged in Lommel for the first time last season and Judd[Read More…]
English Open Coming to Crawley
Crawley will welcome the best snooker players in the world later this year when the English Open comes to the town. Taking place at K2 Crawley from October 15th to 21st, it will be the first world ranking event ever staged in the West Sussex town. The English Open is[Read More…]