International Championship The International Championship returns for a second year as the qualifiers take place in Barnsley today and tomorrow. Last year’s event in Chengdu was recognised as an overall success, with a slightly longer format and increased prize money appeasing the wishes of both fans and players alike. Judd[Read More…]
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UKPTC3 Set for Kick-off
The amateur rounds of the third UK Players Tour Championship event of the season came to a conclusion this evening in Gloucester as most of the more well-known names progressed to the event proper – as is becoming the norm. Ben Harrison dropped just one frame in both of his[Read More…]
UK PTC 2 Under Way
The second UK Players Tour Championship has been up and running since yesterday as the top pros join the fold tomorrow in Gloucester. In the midst of the mayhem and madness that is the Olympics Games in London – coming to its conclusion this weekend – snooker’s long season continues[Read More…]
Back Home for PTC 1
After a month of action on the other side of the world, snooker is back in England for the first UK Players Tour Championship event of the season. Not all of the top players made the trips to China, Thailand and Australia for the opening tournaments of 2012/13 but those[Read More…]
Gray and O’Donnell Advance in SB Classic
David Gray and Martin O’Donnell have become the third and fourth players to advance to the Snookerbacker Classic Grand Finals. The English duo overcame a strong field of 32 players in the second qualifying event, this time held at South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester, and will join Allan Taylor[Read More…]
Delaney and Sutton Qualify
It was a good day for the Irish amateur contingent at the Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy as Joe Delaney and John Sutton progressed to the first round proper in Gloucester. Delaney has reached the main draw in each Players Tour Championship event he has played in this season but has[Read More…]
Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy
The seventh Players Tour Championship event of the season commenced today at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester. As the events come thick and fast in a marathon year, the 2011/12 campaign is in frenzy mode from now until the end of the season next May. However, while there[Read More…]
Warsaw Classic
The sixth Players Tour Championship event of the season gets under way tomorrow as the season gathers momentum. From now until next May the 2011/12 campaign will be action-packed as the majority of the remainder of the PTC series is contested before Christmas. This weekend, the players travel to Poland[Read More…]
New Season Under Way
The 2011/12 season is officially under way as the amateur rounds of the first Players Tour Championship event took place this weekend. Tomorrow, the qualifiers lock horns with the professionals as the first round proper gets under way and the rollercoaster of the new campaign begins. Last year the Players[Read More…]