The 2018 World Open has reached its quarter-final stage with only two top 16 players left in the hunt for glory in Yushan this weekend. World champion Mark Williams fronts an unexpected last eight line-up that will battle it out for the £150,000 top prize over the coming day. The[Read More…]
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Big Names Crash Out of World Open
The 2018 World Open has taken a completely new shape after a purge of the marquee names sent a host of key contenders crashing out at the last 32 stage on Wednesday in Yushan. Defending champion Ding Junhui’s 5-4 defeat to Robert Milkins concluded an evening of upsets as a[Read More…]
Ding Junhui Survives Serious Scare
Defending champion Ding Junhui and world champion Mark Williams both advanced from their heldover World Open qualifying round encounters with tight deciding frame victories on Monday in Yushan. In a busy opening day of action in China, the pair was made to work extremely hard for their places in the[Read More…]
Neil Robertson Wins Riga Masters
Neil Robertson has won the 2018 Riga Masters after a 5-2 victory over Jack Lisowski in the final in Latvia on Sunday. The Australian took advantage of a poor display from his opponent, who was featuring in a ranking event final for the first time in his career, to prevail[Read More…]
Riga Masters Quarter-Finals Preview
Former Riga Masters champion Neil Robertson heads an interesting last eight line-up that will fight it out for the 2018 edition on the final day of action in Latvia on Sunday. The Australian, the winner two years ago in the Eastern European capital city, was in trademark high-scoring form as[Read More…]
Five Players To Watch in the 2018/19 Snooker Season
The new snooker season gets going on Monday with the qualifying round for the Riga Masters taking place at the Preston Guild Hall. With twenty ranking events and a host of other invitational tournaments scheduled between now and the start of next May, it’s sure to be another hectic calendar[Read More…]
World Snooker Championship Second Round Preview
Well, it’s fair to say that the first round predictions didn’t go according to plan. There were a few near misses, like with Shaun Murphy, Ryan Day, and Graeme Dott bowing out in tight affairs with Jamie Jones, Anthony McGill, and Ali Carter respectively. But there were also some shockers,[Read More…]
Ryan Day and Stephen Maguire Book Crucible Spots
Highly-fancied duo Ryan Day and Stephen Maguire safely negotiated their final World Snooker Championship qualifying round encounters on Wednesday at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Former world champion Peter Ebdon won the first three frames of the second session with Day to restore parity in their contest but[Read More…]
Ryan Day and Stephen Maguire Through First Test
The opening round of the World Championship qualifiers reached its conclusion on Saturday with the likes of Ryan Day and Stephen Maguire advancing at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Indeed, every match on a busy day of action was won by a higher ranked player, following the trend[Read More…]
Top 16 Confirmed for the World Snooker Championship
Jack Lisowski’s defeat to Kyren Wilson in the quarter-finals of the China Open means that the 16 players who will qualify automatically for the upcoming World Snooker Championship are now known. Lisowski and fellow Englishman Tom Ford were the only two players who could have still broken into the elite[Read More…]