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…]
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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…]
Morris Moves Closer to Australian Qualification
Ireland’s David Morris moved into the penultimate qualifying round for the Australian Open after beating Lu Ning 5-2 in Crawley on Tuesday. Morris found himself 2-1 down to the Chinese early on but rattled off four consecutive frames, including a break of 130, to set up a clash with Scotland’s[Read More…]
Mixed Fortunes for Irish Duo
Ken Doherty survived a scare before seeing off 10-time ladies world champion Reanne Evans 10-8 in the opening qualifying round for the World Championship on Thursday. The 1997 Crucible champion began nervously and found himself trailing 3-1 at the first mid-session interval as Evans took advantage of her big opportunity[Read More…]
A Sniper in China
By Johnny ‘Sniper’ Williams – Living in China Chinese ‘Pooker’ Star When I came over to China at first, I literally expected to see snooker tables in every casino or amusements type venue. I was soon to find out this was not the case. I had taken my snooker cue[Read More…]
Morris Wins Opener in Mumbai
David Morris is through to the last 32 of the Indian Open after a convincing 4-0 win over David Gilbert on Wednesday. Defending champion Ding Junhui is out, though, after suffering yet another early exit in a ranking event – this time at the hands of Thepchaiya Un-Nooh. Irishman Morris[Read More…]
Morris Mounts Shoot-Out Challenge
Ireland’s Davy Morris is into the last 16 of the Sky Shoot-Out after winning his opening two matches in Blackpool. The competition sees 64 competitors invited to play in a single-frame knockout format that includes shot-clocks and other variations from the general rules of the traditional game. Morris comfortably beat[Read More…]
Doherty, O’Brien, Morris China Bound
After emerging successfully from the Indian Open qualifiers before the weekend, Irish trio Ken Doherty, Fergal O’Brien and David Morris repeated the trick at the Barnsley Metrodome for the China Open on Saturday and Sunday. 1997 world champion Doherty needed all seven frames to overcome Sanderson Lam and book his[Read More…]
