The penultimate ranking event of the season gets under way on Monday with the start of the China Open in Beijing. The revamped tournament — China’s longest running ranking event – now boasts an impressive total prize fund of £1 million and will see next week’s champion collect a cool £225,000.[Read More…]
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Fab Five for Ronnie O’Sullivan
Ronnie O’Sullivan once again wrote himself into the history books after beating Shaun Murphy 10-4 to win the Players Championship on Sunday. The Englishman’s latest ranking event triumph was his fifth of a magnificent season, equalling the record jointly held by Stephen Hendry, Ding Junhui, and Mark Selby. O’Sullivan hasn’t[Read More…]
Players Championship Final: Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Shaun Murphy
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Shaun Murphy will meet in a title decider on UK soil for the third time this season at the Players Championship on Sunday. The English pair emerged from contrasting semi-finals over the last couple of days to set up an intriguing season decider against one another. Murphy[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan into Final After Classic
Ronnie O’Sullivan won the last two frames of a gripping encounter to beat Judd Trump 6-5 on Saturday and move into the final of the Players Championship in Wales. In a clash that fully lived up to its billing with big breaks, high drama, and a thrilling conclusion conjuring up[Read More…]
Players Championship: Semi-Final Preview
The Players Championship is down to its final four contenders and it promises to be a cracking conclusion at the Venue Cymru in Llandudno this weekend. Pre-tournament favourite Ronnie O’Sullivan faces the defending champion Judd Trump later on Friday while the second semi-final takes place on Saturday evening between Mark[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan into Players Championship Semi-Finals
Favourite Ronnie O’Sullivan fought back from 2-0 down to beat Ding Junhui 6-3 with a powerful performance in the quarter-finals of the Players Championship on Wednesday. The world number two was well tested early on in the showdown, which was a repeat of the World Grand Prix final from last[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan Advances in Players Championship
Ronnie O’Sullivan produced another dominant display, in a season full of them, to beat Graeme Dott in the last 16 of the Players Championship on Tuesday. The “Rocket” is in search of a record-equalling fifth ranking event title of the season after previous successes in the English Open, Shanghai Masters,[Read More…]
Players Championship: Preview and Draw
The third last ranking event of a busy campaign gets under way on Monday with the start of the Ladbrokes Players Championship in Llandudno. A high-quality field of 16 players will assemble in north Wales, with the £125,000 champion’s cheque providing the fourth biggest prize on offer for events staged[Read More…]
O’Sullivan, Higgins, Williams: Snooker’s Trinity
Often written off. Yet, still going strong. There will come a time when snooker’s Trinity will inevitably have to put away their cues and call it a day, but that day still seems a long way off yet. Tennis has had the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic-Murray story arc, which is probably just about[Read More…]
QUIZ! World Snooker Championship Moments
Fifty days and counting. That’s right – only 50! As we move into March, there is the exciting realization that the season-ending World Snooker Championship starts next month, with less than six weeks until the qualifiers and a cool half century of days until the main event itself at the[Read More…]