The inaugural European Masters got under way on Monday as Romania stages a professional snooker tournament for the first time this week. The final 34 competitors following the initial qualifying stages in Preston a week ago have descended on Bucharest in hunt of the €75,000 winner’s cheque. Crowd levels at[Read More…]
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European Masters to Kick Start Romanian Romance
The inaugural staging of a ranking event in Romania begins on Monday as the European Masters gets under way in Bucharest. Professional snooker has been successfully introduced to many new countries over the last half dozen seasons – Latvia, Bulgaria and Poland to name just three. Romania is the next[Read More…]
Shaun Murphy Compiles 147 as European Masters Qualifiers Conclude
Shaun Murphy compiled his fifth 147 break as he routed Allan Taylor to qualify for the European Masters in Romania next week. The Englishman, who recently became a father for the first time, made the break in the second frame of a 4-0 drubbing on Wednesday. The maximum feat also[Read More…]
Mixed Day for Seeds in European Masters Qualifiers
Mark Selby and Ronnie O’Sullivan both won their opening qualifying round encounters for the European Masters in Preston on Tuesday. Day two at the Guild Hall, however, claimed many casualties as the players attempted to move a step closer to the inaugural staging of a ranking event in Romania. In[Read More…]
Josh Boileau Earns First Win Against Jimmy White
Ireland’s Josh Boileau won his first match as a professional as he beat Jimmy White 4-2 in the first qualifying round of the new European Masters. Boileau, the European Under-21 champion, had began the campaign as one of Ireland’s new bright hopes but struggled initially to find positive results. The[Read More…]
Preston Guild Hall to Stage Ranking Event Qualifiers
Top snooker stars including Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Selby, John Higgins, Judd Trump, Shaun Murphy and Neil Robertson will be playing in the qualifying rounds of two world ranking events at the Guild Hall in Preston later this month. The European Masters qualifiers run from September 26 to 28 with all[Read More…]