Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Selby, and Judd Trump are among the eight players who have reached the Northern Ireland Open quarter-finals at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. The trio of stars emerged from two rounds on Thursday to reach Friday’s last eight, where the format will increase from the best of[Read More…]
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Defending Champion Mark Williams Beaten by Ali Carter
Defending champion Mark Williams is out of the Northern Ireland Open after a scrappy 4-3 defeat to Ali Carter at the Waterfront Hall on Wednesday. The Welshman captured a first ranking title in almost seven years when he edged Yan Bingtao in a dramatic final twelve months ago, a victory[Read More…]
Barry Hearn: “prize money has grown from £3.5 million to £15 million.”
World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn has taken apparent swipe at recent comments made by Ronnie O’Sullivan, saying that snooker “is a land of opportunity.” In recent days, O’Sullivan has taken to social media platform Twitter to voice his discontent with the current state of the game. The world number three,[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan Starts Strongly in Belfast
Ronnie O’Sullivan produced another scintillating display of scoring to comfortably beat Soheil Vahedi 4-0 in the first round of the Northern Ireland Open on Tuesday in Belfast. O’Sullivan had spent much of the morning before his game on social media complaining about the current state of the sport. In particular,[Read More…]
Mark Allen Beaten in Northern Ireland Open
Mark Allen’s bid to claim a title on home soil ended in immediate disappointment as he exited the Northern Ireland Open in the first round on Monday. In a day full of upsets, Stuart Bingham’s bid for an unlikely million pound bonus for capturing all four Home Nations trophies in[Read More…]
Northern Ireland Open Draw and Preview
The next stop on the snooker roadshow is Belfast with the return of the Northern Ireland Open draw to the Waterfront Hall this week from Monday. Mark Williams is the defending champion after his dramatic 9-8 triumph over teenager Yan Bingtao in last year’s final. It was a win that[Read More…]
Stuart Bingham Claims English Open Title
Stuart Bingham denied Mark Davis a maiden ranking event title after overcoming his countryman 9-7 in the final of the English Open in Crawley on Sunday. There was never more than a frame between them until the very end, when Bingham crucially strung together a three-frame charge to the winning[Read More…]
English Open Final: Stuart Bingham vs Mark Davis
The English Open final will be contested between two home players but one of them won’t be Ronnie O’Sullivan after the defending champion crashed out to Mark Davis on Saturday in Crawley. O’Sullivan had been the overwhelming favourite to continue his unbeaten streak this season, following his previous triumph in[Read More…]
Preview: English Open Semi-Final
Ronnie O’Sullivan remains undefeated this season after beating Luo Honghao in a high-scoring affair to reach the English Open semi-final at the K2 in Crawley on Friday. The defending champion opened the contest with superb runs of 118 and 90 but lost three frames on the spin as the WSF[Read More…]
Preview: English Open Quarter-Final
Ronnie O’Sullivan remains on course to defend his English Open crown after coasting through another couple of rounds at the K2 in Crawley on Thursday. The world number three has already been in the headlines this week for good and bad reasons, with his boorish criticism of the venue, which[Read More…]