An extremely busy opening day in the Welsh Open led to 64 matches being won and lost at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff. However, rather than any of these matches generating headlines, all the talk from day one surrounded Ronnie O’Sullivan’s controversial, but magnificent, 146 break. The ‘Rocket’ effortlessly cleared[Read More…]
Tag: David Morris
Morris Falls in China Qualifiers
David Morris is out of the China Open after losing 5-3 to James Wattana in the qualifying round in Barnsley on Wednesday. The Irishman has now won only one of his last nine matches, a significant drop in form that has resulted in him plummeting down the rankings. Morris has[Read More…]
Q-School Open for Entry
Amid the hullabaloo surrounding Ronnie O’Sullivan’s triumph in the Masters last week, details of this year’sĀ Q-School were also announced by World Snooker. The tournament will start on May 11th and will be staged at the Meadowside Leisure Centre in Burton. Once again there will be eight two-year tour cardsĀ available, given[Read More…]
Selby Survives Morris Match
Mark Selby qualified for the German Masters after overcoming a difficult match with David Morris in Wigan on Saturday. The world no.1 was pushed hard by the Irishman and at 3-3 his progress to the main stages looked in doubt. However, the defending champion made a break of 61 to[Read More…]
German Masters Qualifying Rounds off 2015
Rounding off 2015 on the Main Tour is the qualifying stage for the German Masters, which takes place in Wigan from Thursday. The German Masters follows the flat draw structure but, uniquely, there’ll be two qualifying rounds completed rather than the customary one. That means that there is even more[Read More…]
Duffy Downs Ding in First Round
The UK Championship is only a day old but has already produced a huge upset as Adam Duffy beat Ding Junhui in York on Tuesday. The amateur from Sheffield raced into a 3-0 lead and, despite a mini revival from two-time champion Ding, Duffy reeled off another three frames on[Read More…]
Allen In but Morris Out of International Championship
The International Championship qualifiers got under way on Wednesday at the Metrodome in Barnsley. Each player must win one match in South Yorkshire in order to ensure their safe passage to the main event in Daqing later in October. Despite the top 64 being seeded against the bottom 64 in[Read More…]
Morris Scrapes into Final Qualifying Round
David Morris withheld a spirited fight back from Mark Joyce to march into the final qualifying round of the Shanghai Masters with a 5-4 victory in Barnsley on Saturday. The Irishman opened the contest with a nice break of 83 but the duel became a scrappy affair thereafter, with breaks[Read More…]
Morris Moves Closer to China
David Morris reached the third round of qualifying for the Shanghai Masters after beating Zhou Yuelong 5-3 in Barnsley on Thursday. In a high-scoring affair, Morris countered his Chinese opponent’s breaks of 138, 65 and 57 with runs of 91 and 52 of his own, while also claiming the tighter[Read More…]
Morris Marches but Doherty Denied
David Morris has reached the final qualifying round for the Australian Open after a 5-3 victory over Fraser Patrick on Thursday. Fellow Irishman Ken Doherty crashed out, though, after letting slip a 4-2 lead over Kyren Wilson to be denied by the 23 year-old. Kilkenny’s Morris was in good scoring[Read More…]