Following the conclusion of the 2014 Haikou World Open yesterday, the picture is now somewhat clearer as far as the World Championship seedings are concerned, with the identity of the top 16 players seeded through to the Crucible Theatre now confirmed.
Still, there are still changes that can occur during the upcoming Players Championship Grand Finals tournament in Preston, both to the placing of the seeds in the main draw and also the top 64 bracket…
Four days and eight matches into the 2014 Masters, we are now down to the last eight in London, with the quarter-finals set to get underway tomorrow. Click below for a round-up of the results from the past couple of days…
Hot on the heels of the Gloucester-Antwerp European Tour double-header, this week sees the start of the all-new Champion of Champions event, from the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
Click below for my thoughts ahead of the event…
Keen observers of the tournament calendar for the 2013/14 season will have noticed a week’s gap between the 6 Reds World Championship and the venue stages of the Shanghai Masters in September.
Not every player will have the week off however, as eight top 32 players, including defending champion Neil Robertson and Shaun Murphy will head to Hong Kong, for the fifth staging of the General Cup International event in Hong Kong…
Following the conclusion of the Australian Goldfields Open yesterday, there is just one more event between now the season’s first seedings revision, ahead of next month’s Shanghai Masters qualifiers.
The event in question is the Rotterdam Open, which will take place this coming weekend and see those in contention battle it out to avoid having to qualify for Shanghai, or at least reduce the amount of matches required to do so.
Click below for an updated look at my blog from earlier in the month…
Day one of the 2013 Australian Goldfields Open in Bendigo saw victories for local favourite Neil Robertson, as well as former champions Stuart Bingham and Barry Hawkins in the early hours. Click below for a round-up of the action…
Joe Perry was crowned the 2013 Pink Ribbon Champion, after a high quality 4-3 win over Barry Hawkins in the final.
After five days of play, featuring 328 players, Joe Perry lifted the magnificent Pink Ribbon Trophy at South West snooker Academy.
It might only be June in the 2013/14 season, but already the first seeding revision of the new campaign is fast approaching, with just two more events to come before the places are set for the Shanghai Masters.
While such seedings revisions will take on less significance in this new era of snooker, the Shanghai Masters remains one of the three ranking events to be played under the old system this season, this cut-off is one to keep an eye on.
Click below for a summary of who has to do what in Australia and Rotterdam, to secure a better seeding for Shanghai…