There have been a few interesting comments circling around in the last 24 hours surrounding the standard of today’s game. For some, it is almost a prerequisite that they have to praise without fault no matter the situation such is the blinded desire to promote the sport in every way[Read More…]
Tag: Stephen Hendry
2013 Masters Preview
The 2013 Masters gets under way on Sunday as the 16 best ranked players in the world do battle at the Alexandra Palace in London. First staged in 1975, the Masters is now the second longest running professional tournament on the annual calendar – behind only the World Championship itself[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…]
Fin’s Fables: The Greatest Match Ever
By Fin Ruane With the snooker road show descending on Antwerp this weekend for the third instalment of the European Players Tour Championship, one recalls last season’s event in Belgium and to the final which many commentators claimed to be the finest they had witnessed in many a year. It[Read More…]
Fin’s Fables: The Home Internationals
By Fin Ruane The Republic of Ireland snooker team this week won the 2012 Home Internationals. This brings to four the number of times Ireland has now won the Prince Of Wales Shield following the successes in 1993, 2000 and 2001. The series that is held every Autumn has always[Read More…]
Fin’s Fables: Surviving the Cut
By Fin Ruane The retirement of Stephen Hendry during last season’s World Championship raised quite a few eyebrows. The seven-time world champion stunned the snooker community with his announcement after his quarter-final defeat to Stephen Maguire. Many thought, including myself, that he still had a lot to offer the game[Read More…]
Maguire Ends Hendry Career
Stephen Maguire demolished countryman Stephen Hendry 13-2 to reach the semi-finals of the World Championship in Sheffield for the second time. But the breaking news on day 11 of this year’s tournament is that King of the Crucible Stephen Hendry has officially announced his retirement from professional snooker. The Scot[Read More…]
Hendry Ousts Hapless Higgins
Stephen Hendry wasted little time in completing his demolition job on defending champion John Higgins to reach the quarter-finals of the World Championship for the 19th time. Hendry won seven of the eight frames in last night’s second session – one in which Higgins arguably played the worst snooker of[Read More…]
Robertson Rampant, Hell for Higgins
Neil Robertson became the first player to book his place in the quarter-finals of the World Championship after a hard-fought 13-9 victory over David Gilbert. The players resumed this morning at 5-3 in favour of the Australian and Gilbert missed a huge chance to get back on level terms at[Read More…]
Hendry and Robertson Progress
Stephen Hendry and Neil Robertson both came through their first round matches unscathed with 10-4 victories at the World Championship in Sheffield. Hendry had played superbly, compiling a maximum 147, in opening up an 8-1 advantage over Stuart Bingham yesterday but began this evening’s session poorly, dropping the opening three[Read More…]