There were a lot of close matches in the opening rounds of the Shanghai Masters but that certainly wasn’t the order of day four as the last 16 was played out in China. A rare hat-trick of whitewashes were bandied out to unfortunate opponents while only one of the eight[Read More…]
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Dublin’s Dynamite Duo do it Again
Ken Doherty saw off stern opposition to reach the last 16 of the third Players Tour Championship event of the season at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester. And Fergal O’Brien added gloss to another rare positive day for Irish snooker by winning 12 of his 14 frames to[Read More…]
PTC Trio Poland Bound
The three Players Tour Championship winners from this season so far all booked their seats on the flight to Poland today for the Gdynia Open in October. Stephen Maguire and Martin Gould, champions of the two UK PTCs staged so far, and inaugural Asian PTC winner Stuart Bingham all came[Read More…]
Fin’s Fables: The Season So Far
By Fin Ruane So three months into the new snooker season and with the first ranking cut off last weekend it’s time to run the rule over the winners, movers and shakers of the 2012 /2013 season. With qualifiers starting for the Wuxi Classic and Australian Open just a couple[Read More…]
Premier League Returns
This week sees the return of the Premier League to our screens and I’m not referring to the football on Saturday. Tomorrow, the 2012 Premier League snooker campaign gets under way as ten hopefuls go in search of the coveted league title. In the last decade there has been one[Read More…]
15-Reds Returns in Oz
Tomorrow sees the return of regular snooker to the calendar after a week of 6-Reds action in Thailand. A quick word on that and the brilliant 8-4 success for Mark Davis in the final over countryman Shaun Murphy. The shorter format is obviously one that agrees with Davis, who added[Read More…]
Walden Proves Battling Worth
So the first ranking event of the season has come and gone with Ricky Walden emerging victorious at the Wuxi Classic in China. It gave Walden his second ranking event title, four years after his maiden glory which also came in the Far East country at the Shanghai Masters. Walden[Read More…]
Wuxi Classic Preview
The Wuxi Classic gets under way on Monday as the 2012/13 campaign picks up pace with the first major ranking event of the season. This week saw the first ranking points fought for with the inaugural staging of an Asian Players Tour Championship event, eventually won be Stuart Bingham. Bingham[Read More…]
Back-to-Back Wins for Bingham
Stuart Bingham walked away with his second trophy of the season today after following up his victory in the Pink Ribbon Pro-Am with a 4-3 triumph over Stephen Lee at the first APTC event of the season in China. In an exciting and what seemed to be high-quality final, Bingham[Read More…]
White Making his Mark
Michael White is announcing himself as a big-time player after reaching the semi-finals of the first Asian Players Tour Championship event of the season in China. The 20 year-old has been widely tipped as a star of the future and many believe that the beginning of a potentially illustrious career[Read More…]