Stuart Bingham, Judd Trump and Kyren Wilson all qualified for the World Open after emerging from their preliminary encounter in Preston on Wednesday. But Martin Gould is out after the German Masters champion was defeated 5-4 by fellow Englishman Hammad Miah. Trump and Wilson comfortably saw off their amateur opposition[Read More…]
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WDBS Stages Successful Woking Event
World Disability Billiards and Snooker (WDBS) recently held its third event at the Woking Snooker Centre in Surrey. The three-day competition was a landmark event for WDBS, as it was the first open to disability classification groups incorporating visual impairments, hearing impairments and learning disabilities. Following an Open Day at[Read More…]
Aaron Holland Receives CrossGuns Scholarship Award
By Fin Ruane Earlier, I wrote about the final event in the inaugural CrossGuns Junior Series and who captured the two junior titles. But the last award of the series and possibly the most important was the CrossGuns Scholarship Award. It’s an award I wanted to offer to a junior[Read More…]
Mark Selby is the World Champion
Mark Selby is a two-time world champion after beating Ding Junhui 18-14 in an entertaining final at the Crucible. The 32 year-old joins Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis, Ronnie O’Sullivan, John Higgins and Mark Williams as multiple winners in Sheffield. It was a superb final that ebbed and flowed throughout, with[Read More…]
World Championship Snooker in Sheffield until 2027
World Snooker and Sheffield City Council have agreed a momentous deal to keep the sport’s biggest tournament in the city for the next decade. The World Championship will remain in Sheffield until at least 2027. One of the great events in global sport, the World Championship is watched by over[Read More…]
Substance over Style
It’s Day 17 in the Betfred World Snooker Championship. That means that, by the end of tonight (or into tomorrow morning!) we’ll know this year’s worthy champion at the Crucible in Sheffield. The final’s opening day was a dramatic, tense affair which had people split down the middle in terms[Read More…]
World Championship Final Preview: Mark Selby vs Ding Junhui
It’ll be Mark Selby who takes on Ding Junhui in the final of the 2016 Betfred World Championship in Sheffield. After an epic, grueling contest with Marco Fu, the 2014 champion edged into his third final after a titanic 17-15 victory in which the clock was edging near midnight on[Read More…]
Delectable Ding into First World Final
Ding Junhui is into his first World Championship final after defeating Alan McManus 17-11 in the last four in Sheffield. The Chinese superstar compiled an incredible seven centuries – a record in a Crucible match – as he held off a gutsy challenge from the Scottish 45 year-old. Resuming 14-10[Read More…]
Crunch Time in Semi-Finals
By the end of Saturday the two finalists in the 2016 Betfred World Championship will be known. A dramatic penultimate day of semi-final action on Friday has left both encounters delicately poised, but China’s Ding Junhui has one foot in the showpiece final. The 11-time ranking event winner has conjured[Read More…]
Q-School to Provide Four Extra Tour Cards
Following a record level of entries to 2016 Q School, World Snooker has decided to increase the number of tour cards available from eight to 12. A total of 182 players have entered Q School, which runs from May 11 to 22 at the Meadowside Leisure Centre in Burton. The[Read More…]