John Higgins is into the final of the International Championship after a 9-4 victory over Mark Selby on Saturday in China. The four-time world champion was in punishing form throughout the semi-final clash with the world no.1, capitalising on most of Selby’s errors with hard match snooker. Although it came[Read More…]
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Gilbert into Maiden Ranking Final
David Gilbert is the first man into the International Championship final after a 9-5 victory over Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in China on Friday. In doing so, the Englishman reaches his maiden ranking event final at the age of 34 having been a professional player since 2002. The fact that this week[Read More…]
Contrasting Semi-Finals in Store for International Championship
World no.1 Mark Selby remains on course to claim the International Championship for the first time as he reached the semi-finals on Thursday in Daqing. Selby prevailed in a lengthy quarter-final bout with Neil Robertson 6-4 to set up an intriguing tie against John Higgins – a repeat of the[Read More…]
Rory Roars to Ruhr Open Success
Rory McLeod won his first minor-ranking event title after beating Tian Pengfei 4-2 in the Ruhr Open final on Sunday. All four semi-finalists were in uncharted territory as not one of them had ever got their hands on any professional silverware carrying ranking points. McLeod saw off Mike Dunn in[Read More…]
Murphy On Course for Ruhr Double
Some big names will be battling it out for the Ruhr Open title after the last 16 line-up was completed on Saturday in Germany. Defending champion Shaun Murphy remains in the hunt to continue his reign in Mulheim after emerging from some tricky tests with David Grace, Sam Craigie and[Read More…]
Xiao Completes Championship League Winners Group Line-up
Xiao Guodong won the seventh group of the 2015 Championship League to seal the final place in the Winners Group at Crondon Park. The former Shanghai Masters finalist won four out of his six round-robin encounters to advance from the league format into the play-offs, where a brace of 3-0[Read More…]
Woollaston into Championship League Winners Group
Ben Woollaston won the penultimate Championship League group in Crondon Park yesterday to become the sixth player through to the Winners Group next month. The Englishman sneaked into the semi-finals after narrowly pipping Fergal O’Brien to fourth place following the round-robin phase. Both competitors won three out of their six[Read More…]
Davis Ousts O’Sullivan in Championship League
Mark Davis avoided losing a hat-trick of Championship League finals when he came from 2-0 down to beat Ronnie O’Sullivan 3-2 to win Group 5 on Tuesday. The Englishman had already been defeated twice by 3-1 scorelines in the finals of both of the last two groups, to Ali Carter[Read More…]
Walden Winds Down Wilson’s Challenge
Ricky Walden narrowly avoided becoming another early seeded casualty after coming through a tough battle with debutant Kyren Wilson 10-7. The Chester cueist, semi-finalist at the Crucible in 2013, appeared to be cruising to a relatively comfortable victory when he led 22 year-old 8-5. However, Wilson fought back gallantly to[Read More…]
2014 World Championship: The Big Preview
The draw for the first round of the 2014 World Championship was made on Thursday and as ever it threw up some interesting ties. The qualification stage is complete and all that is left is the small matter of the 17 days required for one of the 32 competitors[Read More…]