Veteran Dubliners Ken Doherty and Fergal O’Brien secured two deciding frame victories on the second day of the Welsh Open to reach the third round. The Irish pair, who together have more than half a century of professional years on the Main Tour under their belt, edged out David Gilbert[Read More…]
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Are You Not Entertained?
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…]
Williams out of China Open
The China Open qualifying round concluded on Thursday but not before another top name fell foul of the system at the Metrodome in Barnsley. Mark Allen had been the biggest casualty of the tournament so far when he lost his opening tie on Wednesday while another Mark, this time Williams,[Read More…]
German Masters Preview
The German Masters gets under way on Wednesday at the Tempodrom in Berlin. This ranking event has become one of the favourites for both players and fans alike since its return to the calendar in 2011. The wonderful venue which has a capacity of 2500, coupled with the German fans who[Read More…]
Round Two Preview
Friday sees no action in the 2015 UK Championship with the players granted a rest day ahead of the remainder of the tournament in York. That’ll give suitable enough time for the television cables to be assembled ahead of the start of the coverage on BBC and Eurosport tomorrow. 64[Read More…]
Maguire Denies Whirlwind in Decider
Stephen Maguire edged Jimmy White in a 6-5 thriller to deny the 1992 champion a place in the UK Championship second round at the Barbican Centre. In a high-scoring affair, White looked on course to record what would have been his biggest victory in years when he led the struggling[Read More…]
O’Brien Battles Through in Bulgarian Open
Fergal O’Brien is into the fourth round of the Bulgarian Open after winning his opening three bouts in Sofia on Friday. The Irish no.1 was made to work hard but in typical ‘Ferginator’ fashion emerged from a trio of tough ties to reach Sunday’s last 16. The 43 year-old first[Read More…]
Walden’s International Championship Reign Ended Early
Ricky Walden’s defence of the International Championship ended before it really began as he was dumped out of the competition by Tian Pengfei on the opening day in Daqing. Walden’s qualifying round with the Chinese player was held over from Barnsley to the main event but the Englishman probably wishes[Read More…]
Selby and Williams on the Mark
World no.1 Mark Selby and former world champion Mark Williams will meet in the fourth round of the Ruhr Open after emerging from their opening three bouts unscathed in Germany. Neither had it all their own way, though, with Selby needing a brace of deciding frame victories to seal the[Read More…]
O’Brien Reaches Daqing
Another 16 players booked their places in the International Championship first round after coming through qualifying on a routine day in Barnsley. 2012 runner-up Neil Robertson was the highest profile player in action and survived a brief scare before coming from 3-1 down to beat amateur Kuldesh Johal 6-3. The Australian[Read More…]