Today marks the final of the International Championship between Mark Allen and Ricky Walden in Chengdu. The pair will fight it out for the fourth ranking event title of the campaign with a neat £125,000 top prize for the winner. Both players couldn’t have played in more contrasting semi-finals to[Read More…]
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Williams Back at the Top
Mark Williams caused a major upset yesterday when he beat Ronnie O’Sullivan for the first time in 12 years at the International Championship in Chengdu. His 6-5 victory over the five-time world champion, his long-term bogey player, earned him a semi-final berth in one of the sport’s most lucrative ranking[Read More…]
O’Sullivan On Course for International Success
The International Championship has reached the quarter-final stage with a relatively unexpected line-up still gunning for the title in Chengdu. Ronnie O’Sullivan remains the heavy favourite as he made light enough work of Li Hang’s challenge in the last 16 on Wednesday. The five-time world champion didn’t score as heavily[Read More…]
Ronnie Up and Running in Chengdu
Pre-tournament favourite Ronnie O’Sullivan is into the last 32 of the International Championship after a come-from-behind victory over Ben Woollaston in Chengdu. The ‘Rocket’ started slowly and found himself 3-1 down at the mid-session interval but he fought back strongly to win the contest 6-4. After reducing the deficit to[Read More…]
Ruhr Open Welcomes New Sponsor
World Snooker is delighted to announce Kreativ Dental as the new title sponsor of the Ruhr Open European Tour event. The tournament will take place in the city of Mulheim in the Ruhr region of Germany fromNovember 19 to 23. Many of snooker’s top stars will enter at the last[Read More…]
Masters Favourites Following Shanghai
By Steve Dixon International sports and gaming freelance blogger We’ve seen some surprise event winners since the start of the 2014-15 snooker season in May. Peter Lines winning the Pink Ribbon pro-am was seen by some as an unexpected result back in June, and not many expected Stephen Maguire’s recent[Read More…]
Shanghai Delight for Bingham
Stuart Bingham has won the 2014 Shanghai Masters after thrashing Mark Allen 10-3 in China. The final didn’t live up to any expectation and was a dour affair throughout that suffered from a lot of drawn out, scrappy frames that were bereft of good play. England’s Bingham didn’t play that[Read More…]
Allen and Bingham Stun Top Seeds in Shanghai
Mark Allen and Stuart Bingham will contest the 2014 Shanghai Masters final on Sunday in China. Defending champion Ding Junhui was involved in a tough encounter with Bingham and the Chinese Sensation let a 4-2 lead slip as he succumbed to a 6-4 defeat in front of his home crowd. Semi-final[Read More…]
Shanghai Masters Semi-Final Preview
The Shanghai Masters has reached the semi-final stage with a quartet of top players gunning for the title in China. The 2014 edition of the event got under an unusual start with many of the favoured players falling by the wayside early on, including the likes of Ronnie O’Sullivan, Judd[Read More…]
Allen Wins Paul Hunter Classic
Mark Allen put behind him the disappointment of failing to win the Riga Open earlier this month by capturing the Paul Hunter Classic title with a 4-2 victory over Judd Trump on Sunday. The Northern Irishman had led Mark Selby 3-0 in Latvia’s final only to be narrowly pipped to[Read More…]