With the second annual Champion of Champions set for the prestigious Ricoh Arena, Coventry, the four seeded players for this year’s event are Ronnie O’Sullivan (1), Mark Selby (2), Neil Robertson (3) and Ding Junhui (4). Taking place from Monday 3rd to Sunday 9th November, the Champion of Champions features[Read More…]
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General Cup Starts Sunday
The 2014 General Cup gets under way in Hong Kong on Sunday as the snooker season enjoys another mini leg in China. First contested in 2004, The General Cup has been an almost permanent fixture on the calendar since 2009. For one reason or another, there never seems to be[Read More…]
Ding’s Defence of International Over
Ding Junhui has been sent crashing from the International Championship after a 6-5 defeat to fellow Chinese player Wang Zepeng in Barnsley. The qualifying round to get back to Chengdu had been expected to be a formality for Ding, who was coming up against an amateur countryman. But just to[Read More…]
Big Names Feature in Paul Hunter Classic Final Day
A strong field at the Paul Hunter Classic will contest the last 16 in Furth on Sunday. World champion Mark Selby, defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan, Neil Robertson and Judd Trump are all still in with a chance of claiming the coveted European Tour event title. While these satellite minor ranking[Read More…]
Riga Open Marks Snooker’s Return
The first European Tour event of the 2014/15 campaign gets under way tomorrow as the Players Championship series welcomes Latvia as a destination for the first time. Capital city Riga will play host as snooker welcomes its newest addition to its growing family as the sport continues its long-term ambition[Read More…]
Snooker Returns in August
Snooker’s summer hiatus is almost at an end with just a week until the players return for the inaugural Riga Open in Latvia. There’ll be no excuses of burnout necessary, instead there may be some who have benefited a little too much from the break before the first European Tour[Read More…]
Stinted Season Opener Damaging to Snooker
The Australian Goldfields Open ended on Sunday and thus concluded the unusual entrée to the new season. There was less than three weeks of a break in between the climax of the 2013/14 campaign, in which Mark Selby captured his maiden World Championship crown in Sheffield, and the opening segment[Read More…]
Trump Denies Robertson in Australia
Judd Trump has won the 2014 Australian Goldfields Open after a 9-5 victory over Neil Robertson in Bendigo. It marks the Englishman’s first ranking event title success since he captured the International Championship, where he also overcame Robertson in the final, almost two years ago. It was an unexpected[Read More…]
Australian Open Final Preview
Neil Robertson and Judd Trump will contest the Australian Goldfields Open final after emerging from their last four clashes unscathed in Bendigo. Trump’s prolific scoring power proved too much for challenger Xiao Guodong as he compiled big breaks of 114, 101, 94, 69 and two 67s en route to a[Read More…]
Four Left in Australia
Neil Robertson continued his quest on Thursday to capture glory in his home event, the Australian Open in Bendigo. The 32 year-old was in a tough encounter with Englishman Robert Milkins in his quarter-final bout today when the scores were locked at 2-2 at the interval. Yet, Robbo was able[Read More…]