The fourth annual Snooker Shoot-Out will take place this weekend at the Circus Arena in Blackpool. The Sky Sports event has been pretty successful over its tenure on the calendar so far and this promises to be no different with tickets all but sold out for the three days of[Read More…]
Tag: Martin Gould
Angry Allen Out as Neil Robs Carter
Neil Robertson became the third player through to the semi-finals of the inaugural Champion of Champions after a hugely dramatic day at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. All three encounters went to a deciding frame, with the world no.1 just about getting the better of Ali Carter in the third[Read More…]
Gould Wins Championship League
Martin Gould won the 2013 Championship League last night at Crondon Park after edging Ali Carter 3-2 in the final. The Winners Group saw seven players who had already emerged successful in previous qualifying groups com together to fight it out for the main prize. The round-robin stage was a[Read More…]
Gould Wins C’ship Lge 5
Martin Gould advanced to the Winners Group of the Championship League after victory in Group 5 at Crondon Park. The Englishman had got off to the worst possible start on Monday after losing his opening three matches to Barry Hawkins, Ricky Walden and Stephen Maguire to place bottom of the[Read More…]
Weekend Round-up
Sky Shoot-Out Martin Gould emerged victorious in the third annual Sky Shoot-Out competition yesterday after a convincing 104-0 win over Mark Allen in the final in Blackpool. Northern Ireland’s Allen had been many people’s pre-tournament favourite despite the Shoot-Out being one of the most unpredictable formats imaginable in snooker. Yet,[Read More…]
Consistently Consistent
In the 1980s Steve Davis dominated snooker and won the majority of the titles each season. The very same, even more so perhaps, could be said about Stephen Hendry’s dominance in the following decade – particularly the first half of it. With the emergence of Ronnie O’Sullivan, John Higgins and[Read More…]
Dublin’s Dynamite Duo do it Again
Ken Doherty saw off stern opposition to reach the last 16 of the third Players Tour Championship event of the season at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester. And Fergal O’Brien added gloss to another rare positive day for Irish snooker by winning 12 of his 14 frames to[Read More…]
PTC Trio Poland Bound
The three Players Tour Championship winners from this season so far all booked their seats on the flight to Poland today for the Gdynia Open in October. Stephen Maguire and Martin Gould, champions of the two UK PTCs staged so far, and inaugural Asian PTC winner Stuart Bingham all came[Read More…]
Fin’s Fables: The Season So Far
By Fin Ruane So three months into the new snooker season and with the first ranking cut off last weekend it’s time to run the rule over the winners, movers and shakers of the 2012 /2013 season. With qualifiers starting for the Wuxi Classic and Australian Open just a couple[Read More…]
A Goulden Moment
As the Olympic Games Closing Ceremony encapsulated the worldwide audience last night, Martin Gould claimed his maiden professional title with a 4-3 victory over Stephen Maguire at UKPTC2 in Gloucester. Gould had of course won Power Snooker at the tail end of 2011 but this was in a brutalised and widely[Read More…]