Mark Selby has struggled to find his best form in recent events, but today he responded in fine style by defeating surprise finalist Joe Swail 4-1 in the final of the Paul Hunter Classic, to successfully defend the title which he won twelve months ago in Furth. Click below for a round-up of the day’s events…
Today is the final day of the first UKPTC event of 2012 and at the time of writing we are down to four as Jack Lisowski, Mark Williams, Andrew Higginson and Stephen Maguire have made it through to the semi-finals. Click below for a round-up of the day’s action so far, as well as the news from the semi-finals and final…
Congratulations to world number 23 Barry Hawkins who today produced a terrific performance to defeat a below-par Peter Ebdon 9-3 and capture his first ranking event title in Bendigo.
Day three in Australia saw a real shock as world number one Mark Selby exited the tournament at the hands of Scotland’s Jamie Burnett, a result that sees Jamie through to the last 16 stage of a second successive ranking event…
Well what about that for an afternoon session? Just as the drama of the opening round was beginning to wear off, today brought us another Crucible classic as Ali Carter recovered from 12-9 down to defeat pre-tournament favourite Judd Trump in an absolute thriller. Matthew Stevens is also through to his first quarter-final since 2006, a 13-11 winner against Barry Hawkins. Click below for my perspective of the action as viewed from the media seats in the Crucible…
Day nine at the Crucible as we hit the second Sunday with two new matches getting underway this morning, while the afternoon session sees the resumption of the match between Mark Williams and Ronnie O’Sullivan, as well as the intriguing match between Judd Trump and Ali Carter…
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Day five at the Crucible as the last of the first round matches get underway, while already the first of the morning matches has been concluded with Joe Perry easing past an out of sorts Graeme Dott…
Today sees the final qualifying round for the 2012 China Open come to a conclusion and already we have seen victories for the likes of Stephen Hendry and Jimmy White, while Barry Hawkins maintained his recent strong form with a whitewash…