The International Championship qualifiers got under way on Wednesday at the Metrodome in Barnsley. Each player must win one match in South Yorkshire in order to ensure their safe passage to the main event in Daqing later in October. Despite the top 64 being seeded against the bottom 64 in[Read More…]
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Barnsley Braced for International Championship Qualifiers
Professional snooker returns on Wednesday with the qualifiers for the International Championship at the Metrodome in Barnsley. 60 matches will be completed over the course of four days in South Yorkshire, where fans are invited to go and watch the action unfold for free. There are 128 players competing in[Read More…]
Second CrossGuns Junior Series Event on Saturday
The second date in the CrossGuns Junior Series will take place this Saturday in Dublin. CrossGuns Snooker Club owner Fin Ruane began the initiative earlier in September, with the promise of staging a single day of dedicated competition for Under-19 and Under-14s alike each month until next May. At that point,[Read More…]
O’Donoghue Continues Winning Habit
Brendan O’Donoghue won the RIBSA Classic on Sunday to claim the first ranking event on the season at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow. By beating TJ Dowling in the final 4-1, O’Donoghue recorded his third straight victory following successes in the final ranker of the last campaign followed by the[Read More…]
Improved Numbers in Irish Ranking Opener
The senior tour of the 2015/16 Irish season gets under way this weekend with the first ranking tournament at the Ivy Rooms in Carlow. There will be six events in total between now and March, before the National Championship weekend takes place at the start of May. After many years[Read More…]
First WDBS Event Staged in Gloucester
The first tournament staged by the new World Disability Billiards and Snooker body will take place in Gloucester in November. The WDBS was launched this week having been created to give more people with disabilities the opportunity to play cue sports. The first event will take place on the weekend[Read More…]
Change the Channel
Yesterday Kyren Wilson became the lowest ranked qualifier in a decade to win a ranking event, overcoming former world no.1 Judd Trump in a titanic tussle that went the distance. It is a moment that the 23 year-old will remember for the rest of his life, as he joins the[Read More…]
World Disability Billiards and Snooker Launched
World Disability Billiards And Snooker (WDBS) is a new body which has been created to give more people with disabilities the opportunity to play cue sports. The WDBS has been set up under the auspices of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, with guidance from the English Federation of[Read More…]
Wilson Wins Shanghai Masters in Thriller
Kyren Wilson has won the 2015 Shanghai Masters after a thrilling 10-9 victory over Judd Trump in China. The 23 year-old withstood a strong fightback from the former world no.1 to collect his maiden ranking event title – the first of what will surely be many. Wilson had never before[Read More…]
Trump and Wilson in Shanghai Masters Final
The 2015 Shanghai Masters final will be contested between Judd Trump and Kyren Wilson – two young players with many years at the top of the sport ahead of them. In contrasting semi-finals, Trump knocked out defending champion Stuart Bingham in a high-scoring affair while Wilson, featuring in his maiden[Read More…]