Jack Lisowski will more than likely have woken up this morning feeling disappointed after his tight defeat to Stephen Maguire in the opening UK PTC event of the season. His deflated emotions will be natural having come so close to win his maiden professional title in only his second final.[Read More…]
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Back Home for PTC 1
After a month of action on the other side of the world, snooker is back in England for the first UK Players Tour Championship event of the season. Not all of the top players made the trips to China, Thailand and Australia for the opening tournaments of 2012/13 but those[Read More…]
Hawkins Captures Australian Open Title
A superb performance from Barry Hawkins gave the Englishman his maiden ranking event title at the Australian Open in Bendigo today. The 33 year-old produced an excellent display to comfortably see off the challenge of countryman Peter Ebdon in fine style 9-3. Before the final, many had Ebdon as the[Read More…]
Ebdon and Hawkins to Duel Down Under
Peter Ebdon and Barry Hawkins will contest the final of the Australian Open after contrasting wins in the semi-finals in Bendigo. Ebdon once again produced a professional performance that we have grown accustomed to seeing over the years and made relatively light work of Marco Fu in a 6-2 triumph.[Read More…]
Hawk Eyeing First Final
For the last decade, Barry Hawkins has been a player who has performed well below his potential. While still forking out a decent career for himself, the 33 year-old has failed to ever really establish himself as one of the main men on Tour. He was ranked as high as[Read More…]
Pedantic Peter
It took almost five hours but Peter Ebdon finally got the better of Ding Junhui in their Australian Open second round clash in Bendigo. Ebdon has been widely ridiculed for his slow style of play, a method which gave him his ninth world ranking title at the China Open in[Read More…]
Selby Buried by Burnett
Mark Selby suffered first round defeat in the Australian Open after a shock 5-3 loss to Jamie Burnett in Bendigo today. The world no.1 had come into the event with a great chance of extending his lead at the top of the world rankings given the absence of nearest rivals[Read More…]
Selt Savours Australia
Matthew Selt has knocked out defending champion Stuart Bingham 5-4 to reach the last 16 of the Australian Open in Bendigo. The Englishman evidently has a love affair with Oz after the tournament gave him his first quarter-final place at a ranking event this time last year. In that run,[Read More…]
Robertson Batters Bond
Neil Robertson produced a stellar performance to reach the second round of the Australian Open in Bendigo. The local favourite wasted little time in dispatching of former World Championship finalist Nigel Bond, knocking in five breaks above 80 in a 5-1 thumping. Two of those breaks included a 113 and[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…]