Fergal O’Brien failed in his bid to qualify for the World Grand Prix as he lost in the third round of the Gdynia Open in Poland on Friday. The Irishman is left agonisingly placed at 33rd in the one-year money list, with only the top 32 players gaining an invite[Read More…]
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Players Prepare for Important Gdynia Open
The sixth and final European Tour event of the season gets under way on Wednesday with the Gdynia Open in Poland. Now in its third year, the Gdynia Open has established itself as a regular fixture on the satellite minor ranking event series. While the 200-plus competitors who have entered[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…]
Irish Trio into India
Ken Doherty, Fergal O’Brien and David Morris all qualified for the Indian Open after winning the one match necessary in Barnsley. Doherty needed all seven frames to overcome Sanderson Lam 4-3 while fellow veteran Dubliner O’Brien had a much easier time of it in his whitewash win over William Lemons.[Read More…]
Xiao Completes Championship League Winners Group Line-up
Xiao Guodong won the seventh group of the 2015 Championship League to seal the final place in the Winners Group at Crondon Park. The former Shanghai Masters finalist won four out of his six round-robin encounters to advance from the league format into the play-offs, where a brace of 3-0[Read More…]
Woollaston into Championship League Winners Group
Ben Woollaston won the penultimate Championship League group in Crondon Park yesterday to become the sixth player through to the Winners Group next month. The Englishman sneaked into the semi-finals after narrowly pipping Fergal O’Brien to fourth place following the round-robin phase. Both competitors won three out of their six[Read More…]
Davis Ousts O’Sullivan in Championship League
Mark Davis avoided losing a hat-trick of Championship League finals when he came from 2-0 down to beat Ronnie O’Sullivan 3-2 to win Group 5 on Tuesday. The Englishman had already been defeated twice by 3-1 scorelines in the finals of both of the last two groups, to Ali Carter[Read More…]
O’Brien Reaches World Seniors Championship
Fergal O’Brien won four matches at the weekend in Wigan to qualify for the World Seniors Championship in March. The 42 year-old Dubliner saw off Jimmy O’Shea in the opening round before a brace of 2-0 victories over fellow Main Tour professionals Mark Davis and Joe Swail. In the final[Read More…]
Walden and Dott Dumped out German Masters
Ricky Walden and Graeme Dott were two big-name casualties as the German Masters qualifiers got under way in Wigan yesterday. The final piece of action on the Main Tour in 2014 sees the 128-strong field whittled down to the last 32 who will be on the flight to Berlin in[Read More…]
Lisbon the Port of Call
Portugal will become the 11th country to host a European Tour event when the Lisbon Open gets under way on Thursday. It marks another major step into unknown territory as the sport’s efforts to become more global continue. Continental Europe has already seen successful satellite minor-ranking tournaments staged in the[Read More…]