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Final qualifying round time at the Academy for the 2010 Shanghai Masters qualifiers and it has so far been a good day for the seeds as all bar two have managed to come through, although not without a fight as 1997 world champion Ken Doherty will testify… When Irish duo Ken Doherty and Fergal O’Brien [...]
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Alfie Burden (photo courtesy of On Q Promotions) Day Three from the Academy in Sheffield and it has so far been a strong day for the seeds, all but three of them emerging victorious today from the first eleven matches played. Click below to read quotes from Alfie Burden following his win today together with [...]
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Click to view the draw… After yesterday’s run of relatively predictable results, the qualifiers at the Academy caught fire today as with 11 of the day’s 16 matches completed, six unseeded players are through to the third round, four following deciding frames… Update: In the pick of the evening matches, talented youngster Liam Highfield recorded [...]
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On Q Promotions Malta’s Tony Drago flew into the second round of the 2010 Shanghai Masters after beating China’s Xiao Guodong 5-2 at the EIS in Sheffield. Drago whistled into a 1-0 lead with a break of 73 and then followed it up with a sublime century, compiled in just five minutes 26 seconds. The [...]
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It will not have escaped the attention of the many Alex Higgins fans across the world that today marked the day when he was finally laid to rest over in Belfast. Click above to watch a video from the day.
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Global Snooker The season starts here. Well, sort of anyway, and unsurprisingly it has so far been experience that has won out over youth with five matches still to complete at the time of writing… One newcomer to buck the trend however was Scottish youngster Anthony McGill who has followed up his impressive run during [...]
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Peter Ebdon defies his own low expectations to beat Michael White 5-1 and qualify for the Shanghai Masters.
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Stars from the world of snooker join hundreds of people at the funeral of the two-time world champion Alex Higgins in Belfast.
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Click to view the draw… We may already have had two events this season that have carried ranking points but the upcoming Shanghai Masters qualifiers will for many mark the real start to the season. Click below for my preview of the week’s action… Round One With many of the players in action either new [...]
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Having considered the prospects of Scotland’s professional players last week, this time the spotlight falls on the Welsh players who are once again headed by double world champion Mark Williams… Having struggled during the years following his unprecedented BBC ‘Grand Slam’, Mark Williams showed signs of recapturing something like his old form during 2008/9. Last [...]
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As a number of you have already pointed out to me yesterday, with today’s publication of the draw for the inaugural World Open it is now looking highly probable that Australia’s Neil Robertson will become just the eighth player to be ranked number one since the introduction of the world rankings back in 1976… It [...]
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Click below for a summary of the day’s news including the latest on John Higgins and a very bizarre press release from Peter Ebdon which was published on the World Snooker website earlier on… It may be commonplace for a player when interviewed between tournaments to say that they are not in the best form [...]
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After weeks of speculation World Snooker have today released the full draw for the season’s first major event, the Shanghai Masters… To view the qualifying draw please click here. To view the last 32 draw please click here. I will post a full preview on the both the qualifying draw and the last 32 draw [...]
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We talk to the world’s youngest female snooker referee 18-year-old Molly Newbold. Molly, from Derby, has officiated at matches featuring cue stars Ronnie O’Sullivan and Jimmy White. Molly is sponsored by Rileys, the UK’s largest pool and snooker operator with 120 clubs nationwide. Molly, will you please bring us up to date with the latest [...]
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Snooker superstar ‘Rocket’ Ronnie O’Sullivan is giving away 147,000 Junior Memberships to Rileys pool and snooker clubs… Ronnie and Rileys, the UK’s largest cue sports operator, are determined to give youngsters aged 12 to 18 the chance to start developing their cue skills when the summer holidays get under way. Rileys Ambassador Ronnie said: “I’m [...]
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As revealed by the excellent Nick Harris over at the Sporting Intelligence website it appears as though the end may be in sight for the John Higgins saga, while there is also the twist that the News of the World appear to be holding on to the unedited version of the infamous video until they [...]
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Congratulations to Stephen Lee who has tonight defeated Bjorn Haneveer in a high quality tussle to take the Vienna Open 2010 title… Stephen Lee 5-4 Bjorn Haneveer 74-40, 104(101)-4, 9-110(98), 74-7, 0-127(107), 31-49, 96(56)-0, 64-23 It has been a difficult few years for Stephen Lee since he dropped out of the top 16 at the [...]
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Congratulations to China’s Tian Pengfei who has continued his run of impressive form by defeating world number 12 Ryan Day today to capture the biggest title of his career to date, the 2010 BTV Cup… Details are sketchy as the 110sport website has not yet been updated to reflect the news, but according to this [...]
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In a moment of unusual candour, former world champion Peter Ebdon releases a statement playing down his Shanghai Masters chances.
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Tributes are paid to former world snooker champion Alex Higgins, who has died aged 61 after a long battle against throat cancer.
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