The action returns on Sunday with the start of the International Championship in Daqing. The lucrative ranking event, arguably the most prestigious in China, is back on the calendar for the sixth time with a whopping £150,000 again on offer for the champion. Mark Selby is the defending champion and[Read More…]
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Ronnie O’Sullivan Runs Away With English Open Success
Ronnie O’Sullivan has won the English Open after an impressive 9-2 victory over Kyren Wilson at the Barnsley Metrodome on Sunday. By lifting the Steve Davis Trophy in front of a big crowd on home soil, O’Sullivan collects his 29th ranking event title – taking him above the six-time world[Read More…]
English Open Final: Ronnie O’Sullivan vs Kyren Wilson
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Kyren Wilson will contest the final of the English Open after emerging from tough semi-final encounters on Saturday in Barnsley. O’Sullivan withstood a spirited comeback from Anthony McGill to eventually prevail 6-4 against the Scotsman, while earlier in the day Wilson reeled off the last four frames[Read More…]
English Open: Semi-Final Preview
Four remain in the hunt for the English Open title as the first Home Nations event of the season reaches the business end of proceedings in Barnsley. An interesting quartet is left battling it out for glory at the Metrodom, with one proven star of the sport attempting to hold[Read More…]
English Open: Quarter-Final Preview
Ronnie O’Sullivan is the senior statesman as he heads a distinctly young English Open quarter-final line-up in Barnsley. There have been signs over the past year or so that a changing of the guard is potentially imminent, highlighted by several new ranking event champions and the emergence of many new[Read More…]
Maximum Magic from Liang Wenbo in English Open
Liang Wenbo fired in a maximum 147 as he fought from behind to beat Tom Ford in the English Open on Wednesday. The defending champion looked in trouble when he trailed 3-1 but forced a deciding frame with the perfect break that pocketed the Chinese number two a neat £40,000 from[Read More…]
Mark Selby Survives Scare in Metrodome
World champion Mark Selby avoided an early exit from the English Open by coming from 3-2 down to beat Scott Donaldson in a decider on Tuesday. The world number one has struggled to find his top form this season after a record-equalling last campaign that brought him five ranking titles,[Read More…]
Preview: Home Nations English Open
The Home Nations series gets under way on Monday with the first of its four tournaments in the United Kingdom and Ireland – the English Open. The series was successfully launched last year, bringing more snooker to fans in the traditional home of the sport. Tournament in Northern Ireland, Scotland,[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan Coasts Through Shanghai Masters Qualifier
Ronnie O’Sullivan scored his second successive whitewash win in qualifying after a 5-0 schooling of Christopher Keogan on Friday. The 41 year-old made it a Chinese double, reaching the main event of the Shanghai Masters after last week inflicting a heavy 6-0 defeat on Gerard Greene to similarly make the[Read More…]
Ronnie O’Sullivan and Judd Trump Coast into International
Ronnie O’Sullivan breezed into the main draw of the International Championship as the qualifiers reached its conclusion in Preston on Friday. The “Rocket” wasted little time as he demolished Gerard Greene 6-0 in less than 90 minutes at the Guild Hall. O’Sullivan, without a ranking event victory since the 2016[Read More…]