The second Asian Tour event of the season is taking place this week in China, known as the Haining Open. Already down to the last 32 stage, Jimmy White has continued his promising form of late as a brace of victories has sent him into the third round. The ‘Whirlwind’,[Read More…]
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Seeds and Schedule for Champion of Champions
With the second annual Champion of Champions set for the prestigious Ricoh Arena, Coventry, the four seeded players for this year’s event are Ronnie O’Sullivan (1), Mark Selby (2), Neil Robertson (3) and Ding Junhui (4). Taking place from Monday 3rd to Sunday 9th November, the Champion of Champions features[Read More…]
Snooker in October
From the start of the season in May until now at the end of September, the snooker season has been a stop-start motion right the way through. This is in stark contrast to last season when it felt like there was no respite almost from beginning to end, until Mark[Read More…]
Ding’s Defence of International Over
Ding Junhui has been sent crashing from the International Championship after a 6-5 defeat to fellow Chinese player Wang Zepeng in Barnsley. The qualifying round to get back to Chengdu had been expected to be a formality for Ding, who was coming up against an amateur countryman. But just to[Read More…]
Monday Start for International Championship Qualifier
After yet another week without any snooker on our screens, the International Championship qualifiers – or first round if you will – gets under way on Monday in Barnsley. The postponement of the Indian Open until March of next year meant that the scheduled qualifiers for that event was moved[Read More…]
Allen and Bingham Stun Top Seeds in Shanghai
Mark Allen and Stuart Bingham will contest the 2014 Shanghai Masters final on Sunday in China. Defending champion Ding Junhui was involved in a tough encounter with Bingham and the Chinese Sensation let a 4-2 lead slip as he succumbed to a 6-4 defeat in front of his home crowd. Semi-final[Read More…]
Shanghai Masters Semi-Final Preview
The Shanghai Masters has reached the semi-final stage with a quartet of top players gunning for the title in China. The 2014 edition of the event got under an unusual start with many of the favoured players falling by the wayside early on, including the likes of Ronnie O’Sullivan, Judd[Read More…]
Dale Dumps Trump
Australian Open champion Judd Trump is out of the Shanghai Masters after a shock 5-2 defeat at the hands of Dominic Dale in China. Trump had been many people’s pre-tournament favourite to lift the title following his early season form but was powerless to stop his Welsh Opponent after the[Read More…]
Shanghai Masters Preview
The 2014 Shanghai Masters gets under way on Monday as 15-Red snooker returns to our screens. Now in its eighth year on the calendar, the Chinese ranking event is firmly becoming one of the most important. All the top players are keen to get their hands on the trophy, highlighted[Read More…]
Snooker Returns in August
Snooker’s summer hiatus is almost at an end with just a week until the players return for the inaugural Riga Open in Latvia. There’ll be no excuses of burnout necessary, instead there may be some who have benefited a little too much from the break before the first European Tour[Read More…]