By Jonathan Williams The Grand Prix for me went better than expected. It wasn’t necessarily the best in terms of a last eight appearance, but more the fact that I beat Robert Murphy for what I think was the first time in around 12 years. Now, I may have only played[Read More…]
Tag: Mark Tuite
Sniper’s Snippets: Irish Masters
By Jonathan Williams My Douglas Jewellers Irish Masters was very short lived. It was not the best first round draw against Colm Gilcreest, but I didn’t feel confident going into this event and hadn’t really been playing so got the result I expected. I missed the last ranking event after[Read More…]
Sniper’s Snippets: The Presidents Cup
By Jonathan Williams I had prepared well coming up to the Presidents Cup – by that I mean I played most days. However, rather than actually practicing potting, I was picking out balls for John Sutton in Potters Drogheda for a few hours each day. Being totally honest I was very low[Read More…]
Round-Up: Tuite, Mann, Lines and Carter
The last couple of weeks has been quiet enough on the snooker front but that doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been some action on the baize of late. Indeed, it’s difficult to find any period of the year nowadays when absolutely nothing is going on. Despite this, even us hardy[Read More…]
Irish Performing Well in World Amateurs
The IBSF World Amateur Championship has been taking place in Latvia since last week with all three Irish players emerging unscathed from the group stage. 119 hopeful players were separated into 20 groups comprising either six or seven players at the outset but that field has now been whittled down[Read More…]
Sniper’s Diary: The World After
By Johnny ‘Sniper’ Williams I know I said before the tournament that if I didn’t make the last 32 I would be upset, and in a way I am because I was one frame away, but then again in another sense I’m not. The standard was incredibly high and I[Read More…]
World Amateurs: Sniper’s Diary 3
By Johnny ‘Sniper’ Williams So yesterday I played my final group match. I was a bit nervous to start with and a bit tired so I didn’t play great. I knew if I won this match I was guaranteed to finish third in my group, which I knew would be[Read More…]
World Amateurs: Sniper’s Diary 2
By Johnny ‘Sniper’ Williams So today’s encounter against last year’s semi-finalist Kamal Chawla was very tight. I played my best snooker so far, my safety was good but I just didn’t get a real clear-cut opening in the final two frames. His safety was also very good and he is[Read More…]
World Amateurs: Sniper’s Diary 1
The World Amateur Championship got under way in Sofia on Saturday with five Irishmen over competing for top honours – three in the Men’s event and two in the Masters. Regular SnookerHQ contributor Johnny ‘Sniper’ Williams is competing in the Men’s and has had a mixed bag of results so far from[Read More…]
Irish Scene: O’Donoghue On Course for Number 1
Brendan O’Donoghue beat Joe Delaney 5-2 to claim the fifth ranking event of the Irish Senior campaign yesterday in Celbridge. The Nenagh player impressively surrendered only three frames in his last three matches for his second success this season and puts him to within touching distance of top place in[Read More…]