The main draw of the third UK Players Tour Championship event of the season got under way today with the top half whittled down from 64 players to 8 at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester. Judd Trump showed a little bit of form in stringing together a trio[Read More…]
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Ebdon and Hawkins to Duel Down Under
Peter Ebdon and Barry Hawkins will contest the final of the Australian Open after contrasting wins in the semi-finals in Bendigo. Ebdon once again produced a professional performance that we have grown accustomed to seeing over the years and made relatively light work of Marco Fu in a 6-2 triumph.[Read More…]
Hawk Eyeing First Final
For the last decade, Barry Hawkins has been a player who has performed well below his potential. While still forking out a decent career for himself, the 33 year-old has failed to ever really establish himself as one of the main men on Tour. He was ranked as high as[Read More…]
Mighty Max for Fu
Marco Fu got in on the 147 action during the final round of the World Open qualifiers today after knocking in the break during his 5-2 victory over Matthew Selt. It is the Hong Kong native’s second maximum, coming twelve years after his first against Ken Doherty at the 2000[Read More…]
Fu Shocks Selby
Wednesday served up a day of shocks as both the world number one and two were sent crashing at the second round of the UK Championship in York. A pair of surprise 6-3 defeats were the undoing of Shanghai Masters champion Mark Selby and German Masters winner Mark Williams. Selby[Read More…]
O’Sullivan Downs Davis
Ronnie O’Sullivan beat fellow living legend Steve Davis 6-1 today to advance to the second round of the UK Championship in York. Six-time champion Davis had come through two rounds of qualifying to be in the last 32 and set up a dream tie with ‘The Rocket’ – himself a[Read More…]
Northern Ireland Stun Scotland
Northern Ireland continued their excellent form in the quarter-finals of the 2011 Snooker World Cup by edging out ‘Dream Team’ Scotland 4-3 in Bangkok. There was no such luck for south of the border, though, as Republic of Ireland’s erratic journey came to an end with a disappointing 4-1 defeat[Read More…]
World Cup: China, Australia, Hong Kong
Five of the top eight seeds in next week’s revival of the Snooker World Cup are from Britain and Ireland. The remaining three reside in the Southern Hemisphere and I will now take a look at the prospects of the two-man teams put forward from China, Australia and Hong Kong.[Read More…]
