Jimmy White won hist first ranking event match since the start of last August after beating Ali Carter 4-1 on Monday. In doing so, the ten times ranking event champion qualified for the Indian Open in July, where he’ll face fellow veteran Joe Swail. White won only one match in[Read More…]
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Irish Ready for Tough World Championship Qualifiers
The draw for the World Championship qualifiers was made on Monday and it certainly threw up quite a few interesting ties for the Irish. In total there are seven from the Republic, as well as a further three from the North who are attempting to gain one of the coveted[Read More…]
UK Championship Last 16 Preview
From 128 there are now just 16. The UK Championship has reached the fourth round and we are approaching the business end of proceedings as the Barbican Centre transforms into a two-table arena in York. There has already been plenty of drama in 2015’s edition of the second biggest ranking[Read More…]
Ebdon Eliminates World Champion
World no.1 Mark Selby scraped through the third round of the UK Championship on Monday but world champion Stuart Bingham crashed out. Selby looked great in not losing a frame in his opening two ties but had to rely on his battling qualities to cruelly deny Jamie Jones in a[Read More…]
Allen In but Morris Out of International Championship
The International Championship qualifiers got under way on Wednesday at the Metrodome in Barnsley. Each player must win one match in South Yorkshire in order to ensure their safe passage to the main event in Daqing later in October. Despite the top 64 being seeded against the bottom 64 in[Read More…]
Morris Scrapes into Final Qualifying Round
David Morris withheld a spirited fight back from Mark Joyce to march into the final qualifying round of the Shanghai Masters with a 5-4 victory in Barnsley on Saturday. The Irishman opened the contest with a nice break of 83 but the duel became a scrappy affair thereafter, with breaks[Read More…]
Morris Moves Closer to China
David Morris reached the third round of qualifying for the Shanghai Masters after beating Zhou Yuelong 5-3 in Barnsley on Thursday. In a high-scoring affair, Morris countered his Chinese opponent’s breaks of 138, 65 and 57 with runs of 91 and 52 of his own, while also claiming the tighter[Read More…]
World Cup Groups to be Decided
All four groups in the 2015 World Cup will go down to the final round of matches on Friday in Wuxi. Three teams remain in realistic contention in Groups A, B and C, while in Group D there are four nations squabbling for the two coveted spots that grant a[Read More…]
Doherty Through in Oz Qualifiers
Ken Doherty moved into the penultimate qualifying round for the Australian Open after a 5-1 victory over Sanderson Lam in Crawley on Wednesday. The Irishman controlled the contest throughout despite there being a number of tight frames, before knocking in a 108 in the last to seal victory. The 1997[Read More…]
Davis Prevails in Black Ball Thriller
Steve Davis marked his return to the circuit with a thrilling 10-9 victory over Jamie Cope in the first qualifying round for the 2015 World Championship. The six-time world champion dropped off the Main Tour after almost three and a half decades as a professional at the end of last[Read More…]