The 2015/16 campaign kicked off on Monday as the Australian Open qualifiers began in Crawley, England. It has only been four weeks since the conclusion of the World Championship but we’re already back under way with a new season. Some like the wall-to-wall snooker and when the Barry Hearn era[Read More…]
Tag: Jimmy White
It’s There! Can you Keep the Noise Down, Please!?
Over the course of the World Championship I’ve challenged one snooker aficionado to highlight the best quirky, outlandish, unusual, laughable and questionable observations of each day. As if to further enhance his (or her!) alter ego as snooker’s sleeper, this spy has elected to go through the tournament in disguise. Read[Read More…]
Doherty and O’Brien One Win Away from Crucible
Dubliners Ken Doherty and Fergal O’Brien moved one step closer to a Crucible place after coming through their penultimate World Championship qualifying rounds in Sheffield. Snooker legends Steve Davis and Jimmy White are out, though, after contrasting but equally crushing defeats in Ponds Forge International Sports Centre. 1997 world champion[Read More…]
White Beats Wattana in World Qualifiers
Jimmy White eased into the second round of World Championship qualifying after a comprehensive 10-3 victory over James Wattana on Saturday. The six-time world finalist lost the opening two frames against Wattana, a regular foe at the top of the game during the 1990s, but won ten out of the next[Read More…]
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…]
O’Sullivan Through But Slams Welsh Venue
Ronnie O’Sullivan negated his way into the third round of the Welsh Open on Monday but expressed his discontent at the state of the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff. ‘Car boot sale’ and ‘shopping mall’ were just two ways that the defending champion described the venue, which changed from Newport this[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…]
Snooker Back in Goffs as England Beat Ireland
Snooker returned to Goffs on Monday and Tuesday in the form of the Irish Legends Cup, another event in the Snooker Legends series. Based on the Ryder Cup it pitched two teams of four against each other in a series of Doubles and Singles. Captaining England was Jimmy White who[Read More…]
Top 10 Most Read Stories of 2014
2014 is quickly coming to a close and what a memorable year it has been on SnookerHQ. This post will represent the 270th published in what has been the busiest and best year yet for the website. A major makeover in the summer, which included the accompaniment of photos with each[Read More…]
White Draws Doherty in World Seniors
Jimmy White and Ken Doherty have been drawn to play each other in the last 16 of the 2015 World Seniors Championship. The ‘Whirlwind’, winner of 2010 edition, takes on his good Irish friend, who will be taking part in the oldies tournament for the first time. Both will probably[Read More…]