The 2014 Shanghai Masters gets under way on Monday as 15-Red snooker returns to our screens. Now in its eighth year on the calendar, the Chinese ranking event is firmly becoming one of the most important. All the top players are keen to get their hands on the trophy, highlighted[Read More…]
Tag: Stephen Maguire
Maguire Crowned Six Red World Champion
Stephen Maguire has won the 2014 Six Red World Championship after a thrilling 8-7 victory over Ricky Walden in Thailand. The Scot came from 5-2 and 7-5 down to pip his English opponent in an exciting affair that would befit any major final. Maguire started the match slowly, going down[Read More…]
Maguire and Walden Gunning for Six Red Glory
Ricky Walden and Stephen Maguire will contest the 2014 Six Red World Championship final in Bangkok on Saturday. The Top 16 ranked players on the Main Tour emerged after a grueling five days of short-format snooker and will compete over the best of 15 frames tomorrow for the tidy sum[Read More…]
Stevens Ousts O’Brien in Oz
Matthew Stevens was the first man to the reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open today as he overcame Ireland’s Fergal O’Brien 5-2 in Bendigo. With there being such a short period in between this ranking event and the Wuxi Classic which only concluded on Sunday, the format was slightly[Read More…]
High Quality Last 8 in Wuxi
Eight remain in the hunt to win the first ranking event of the season at the Wuxi Classic in China. One would have been forgiven to have presumed that some of those contesting the latter stages of an early season tournament would have been lesser known players capitalising on the[Read More…]
Irish Out in Wuxi
The seeds enjoyed a good second day at the opening ranking event of the season, the Wuxi Classic. But the same could not be said of the Irish challenge as Ken Doherty and David Morris joined Fergal O’Brien in the departure lounge. Last year’s quarter-finalist Morris pushed Robert Milkins all[Read More…]
Decidedly Dramatic Opening in Sheffield
The first three days of the World Championship have come and gone amid a host of dramatic contests at the Crucible. The standard of play hasn’t always been at the highest but the start of the 2014 edition in Sheffield must go down as one of the best ever. There[Read More…]
Ronnie Safely into Second Round
Ronnie O’Sullivan has reached the second round of the World Championship after a 10-4 victory over Robin Hull on the opening day at the Crucible. The two-time defending champion was made to work harder than the scoreline would suggest, though, as Hull fought well but ultimately was left to rue a[Read More…]
2014 World Championship: The Big Preview
The draw for the first round of the 2014 World Championship was made on Thursday and as ever it threw up some interesting ties. The qualification stage is complete and all that is left is the small matter of the 17 days required for one of the 32 competitors[Read More…]
Allen Begins Hunt for Hat-Trick
Mark Allen’s love affair with the Haikou World Open continued as he beat Mike Dunn in the last 64 on the opening day’s action in China on Monday. The two-time defending champion has never lost a match in the event since it went out east and will be hoping that[Read More…]