Congratulations to Ronnie O’Sullivan, who has defeated Barry Hawkins 18-12 to win the 2013 Betfair World Championship at the Crucible Theatre this evening. His fifth title of all, the victory sees O’Sullivan become the first man to successfully defend this title since Stephen Hendry back in 1996, as well as see him take home the top prize of £250,000.
So the end is in sight and the 2013 World Championship final is no underway, as Barry Hawkins looks to complete mission impossible and take down the defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan, himself going for a fifth Crucible crown…
Day fifteen at the 2013 World Championship and day three of the semi-final marathon, today we will find out who will contest this year’s Crucible final, as Ronnie O’Sullivan and Ricky Walden look to convert their overnight leads into victories today…
As the World Championship prepares to enter its final phase, today sees the quarter-finals played to a conclusion, as the identities of the last four players remaining at this year’s tournament are revealed.
Click below for updates throughout the day, with quotes from the players and my thoughts on the matches…
Day Two from the Crucible as today will see the conclusion of four more first-round matches, including those involving Shaun Murphy, Barry Hawkins and Ricky Walden…
So it begins, the 2013 World Championship in underway, Ronnie O’Sullivan having entered the arena this morning to a rapturous round of applause for the start of his match with Marcus Campbell.
Click below for the first part of my daily World Championship diary from the Crucible, which during the course of the 17 days will contain the latest post-match quotes, as well other other snippets of insight from what promises to be another thrilling tournament…
Hot on the heels of the conclusion of the PTC Grand Finals yesterday, today sees the start of the final four days of the 2013 Championship League, with Group 7 being followed by the Winners’ Group on Wednesday and Thursday…
Little over a month since the season’s previous seedings revision, the UK Championship marks the third cut-off of the season, as Mark Selby replaces Judd Trump at the head of the rankings, while there have been various other changes up and down the list.
This seeding list will now be used for all of the remaining tournaments this season, with the exception of the 2013 World Championship.
As ever, I have also now produced the new projected seedings list, which will eventually determine the seedings for the Crucible. You may notice that the table is a slightly different format this time, as you can now highlight particular rows by hovering your cursor on the table, whilst you can now sort the players by different columns.
Unfortunately the sorting appears to have a mind of its own in places, but I will see what I can do about that!
A final point to note is that at this stage I have not yet added minimum points earned for the PTC Finals and will do so once the 32 players involved have been confirmed, following the Munich Open.
Click below for a round-up of all of the changes to the seeding list and the usual handy links…