Ding Junhui won the Scottish Players Tour Championship event by beating home favourite Anthony McGill 4-2 in the final at Ravenscraig. It puts a gloss to what has been a topsy-turvy year for the Chinese number one having won the Welsh Open at the outset but then subsequently struggled for[Read More…]
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Higgins Foils Trump Again
John Higgins beat Judd Trump 4-2 to claim the Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup at the South West Snooker Academy tonight in Gloucester. The fourth Players Tour Championship event in the United Kingdom this season ended with two of the world’s best players going head to head once again in what[Read More…]
Davis Denies Williams
There was a mixed bag of results today in the International Championship as the first round came to a close in Chengdu. Eight matches were contested on Tuesday and the balance between expected victories and unlikely outcomes was rather even. The biggest shock of the day saw Mark Williams, so[Read More…]
PL Wins for Ding and Higgins
Ding Junhui and John Higgins both moved a step closer to the semi-finals of the Premier League with respective 4-2 victories over Mark Selby and Stephen Lee in Great Malvern. As the tournament begins to edge toward the business end of the season, every victory and every frame won could[Read More…]
Maguire Ends White Run
Stephen Maguire became the first player into the semi-finals of the Gdynia Open after a brace of 4-1 victories sealed his last four berth in Poland. Maguire, who has performed very well in the PTC series since its introduction in 2010, winning twice alongside three runners-up spots, looked in good[Read More…]
Lee’s Glee with the PTCs
Stephen Lee won the second Asian Players Tour Championship event of the season this morning after a comprehensive 4-0 victory over home favourite Ding Junhui in the final. Earlier, the Englishman had beaten another local hero in Cao Yupeng 4-2 while Ding defeated compatriot Xiao Guodong by the same scoreline[Read More…]
Selby and Ding Dumped Out
World no.1 Mark Selby and home favourite Ding Junhui recorded unexpected losses on day two of the Shanghai Masters in China today. Defending champion Selby had come into the event seemingly in good form having claimed the second UK Players Tour Championship event of the season a few weeks ago[Read More…]
Premier League Back With a Bang
The 2012 Premier League got off to an excellent start tonight as four of the ten competitors got their league campaigns under way in Skegness. In front of a packed crowd, the foursome provided a night of thorough entertainment and high-quality snooker – with star attraction Judd Trump producing the[Read More…]
Premier League Returns
This week sees the return of the Premier League to our screens and I’m not referring to the football on Saturday. Tomorrow, the 2012 Premier League snooker campaign gets under way as ten hopefuls go in search of the coveted league title. In the last decade there has been one[Read More…]
Selby Buried by Burnett
Mark Selby suffered first round defeat in the Australian Open after a shock 5-3 loss to Jamie Burnett in Bendigo today. The world no.1 had come into the event with a great chance of extending his lead at the top of the world rankings given the absence of nearest rivals[Read More…]