Fergal O’Brien has qualified for the World Championship for the first time in seven years after a marathon 10-9 victory over David Gilbert on Wednesday. Trailing 6-3 overnight, O’Brien won the first four frames of the second session to lead 7-6 only to lose the following three to go to[Read More…]
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Mark Williams Struggling to Qualify from Final Round
Mark Williams has left himself with work to do in the final qualifying round for the World Championship in Ponds Forge. The two-time former world champion trails Stuart Carrington 6-3 after the opening session on Tuesday. Williams began the encounter well, compiling a break of 112 in the first frame,[Read More…]
Welsh Open: Quarter Final Preview
Eight remain in the hunt for the Welsh Open title as the last event in the Home Nations series reaches the business end in Cardiff. There’s guaranteed to be a new name etched on the trophy after a tournament of shocks has developed an unlikely last eight line-up. Only three[Read More…]
Ryan Day Rumbles Robertson
Neil Robertson, Shaun Murphy and Mark Williams crashed out of the Shanghai Masters as the first round came to a conclusion on Wednesday. Robertson, somewhat unusually for him, complained about the conditions as he was downed by Ryan Day in a scrappy affair 5-2. The Australian had been in good[Read More…]
World Championship Preview: Rousing Robertson
The start of the 2015 Betfred World Snooker Championship is just a single day away and, after a long qualifying process and a botched draw, we now know our first round line-up. Here is a look at each of the last 32 encounters that will take place over the coming[Read More…]
Deciding Matters in World Qualifiers
A highly dramatic last session to the final World Championship qualifiers resulted in an amazing five deciding frame thrillers in Ponds Forge. Given the amount of matches played over the last week and the enormity of the consequences of each result, the lack of more 10-9 scorelines earlier on was somewhat[Read More…]
Ebdon and White Out
Former world champion Peter Ebdon is out of this year’s tournament after losing 10-7 to Stuart Carrington in the penultimate qualifying round in Sheffield. Hotly fancied young star Michael White was also an unexpected casualty on Sunday, going down 10-5 to Englishman Craig Steadman. Ebdon’s fate seemed sealed when he[Read More…]
O’Brien Out of World Grand Prix Running
Fergal O’Brien failed in his bid to qualify for the World Grand Prix as he lost in the third round of the Gdynia Open in Poland on Friday. The Irishman is left agonisingly placed at 33rd in the one-year money list, with only the top 32 players gaining an invite[Read More…]
Defending Champion Allen Out of Ruhr Open
The top half of the field at the Ruhr Open got whittled down on Friday as the first eight players booked their last 16 spots in Germany. Read more here.
It’s Friday!
My internet is once again down at the moment – beyond a joke now! – so apologies for not writing a report on day two at the International Championship qualifiers. Most of you will know the results by now but I’ll briefly summarise what happened, and the rest of the[Read More…]