Judd Trump got back to winning ways yesterday after emerging victorious in the 2014 Championship League at Crondon Park. Trump, who won the event in 2009, beat defending champion Martin Gould 3-1 in the final to collect his first piece of silverware in a year and a half. It will[Read More…]
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Williams Flying Welsh Flag
World no.1 Neil Robertson crashed out of the Welsh Open in the third round to home favourite Mark Williams on Wednesday. The Australian, who did manage to add to his centuries tally to go to 88 for the season, was downed 4-3 by Williams – the only Welshman to have[Read More…]
Long Welsh Open Starts Today
The Welsh Open gets under way today in a revamped format that sees the entire tournament contested in Newport. Now in its 23rd year on the calendar, the Welsh Open is the third longest running ranking event, with only the World and UK Championship in existence for a longer period.[Read More…]
China Open Qualifiers Start Today
The qualifying round – technically the first round – of the China Open takes place today, tomorrow and Tuesday in Gloucester. Most of the top 128 professionals in the world are competing in an effort to win the one match required to book their place on the flight to Beijing[Read More…]
Trump Continues Form in Poland
The last 16 of the Gdynia Open has its first eight competitors after a busy day at the Gdynia Sports Arena in Poland on Friday. The top half of the draw was whittled down to eight in the eighth and final European Tour event on the Players Tour Championship series.[Read More…]
Sensational Ding Continues Success
Ding Junhui became the first player in 23 years to win four ranking event titles in a single season after overcoming Judd Trump in the German Masters final on Sunday. The Chinese collected the trophy in Berlin with a 9-5 triumph over his English rival to add to the silverware[Read More…]
Ding or Trump for German Glory
Ding Junhui and Judd Trump set up a mouth-watering final in the German Masters after contrasting victories in the last four in Berlin. Ding needed all 11 frames to see off the spirited challenge of Welshman Ryan Day whereas Trump surrendered only the solitary frame in his rout of 42[Read More…]
The German Four
A hectic few days in Berlin continues with the semi-finals of the German Masters today at the Tempodrom. After three days of action on multiple tables, proceedings return to more normal custom on Saturday with a single-table set-up for the last four. While there were shocks galore in the early[Read More…]
Did Someone Say Shocks?
There were four major upsets on Wednesday and that was topped by a quartet of even bigger ones yesterday at the German Masters in Berlin. The action comes thick and fast at the Tempodrom with seven tables in the main arena – an eighth one has also been utilised in[Read More…]
2014 German Masters Preview
The seventh main ranking event of a busy season gets under way tomorrow with the German Masters in Berlin. There have been plenty of success stories since the outset of the Barry Hearn era and the influx of new tournaments onto the calendar, but the German Masters is arguably the[Read More…]