Little over a day after the final match of the 2011 UK Championship qualifiers concluded in Gloucester, the first full day of the PTC9 event in Antwerp has been played through to the last 16 as the likes of Ronnie O’Sullivan, Neil Robertson and Michael White (pictured), emerged victorious. Click below for more included updated projected seedings…
So that is it, we now know exactly who will be at the Masters and the Shootout come January as the first mid-season seedings revision takes place today. Click below for a full round-up of all the key changes to the start of season seedings…
So the dust is now settling on what was a fabulous event staged at the South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester, namely the PTC2 as won in style by Judd Trump. Click below for my thoughts on Judd and a few other issues and observations from behind the scenes…
One of the 16 successful qualifiers for the Shanghai Masters last week was 20-year-old Jack Lisowski and I am pleased to say that he will this season be sharing his story here at PSB. In his first entry he reviews his successful run this week as well as taking a final look back at last season and outlining his targets for the new campaign amongst other things. Over to Jack…
Day four from the Shanghai qualifiers as the 32 players involved fight it out for the right to play at the venue stage next month and already through is Jack Lisowski after another terrific performance…
Day three from Sheffield and it has been a bit of a shocker for a number of veteran players as Steve Davis, Tony Drago and Jimmy White have all exited the tournament. There was though another win for Thailand’s James Wattana…
Day two from the Academy saw Jimmy White come through his opener early on but the star of the show was undoubtedly Tian Pengfei, click below to read why as well as an update on the situation regarding starter points in the rankings…
It feels somewhat strange to be talking about the start of a new snooker season in the middle of June but just weeks on from John Higgins’ latest Crucible triumph we stand on the eve of another season of professional snooker. Rather than come up with a set of coherent preview articles as Dave H has at Snooker Scene Blog, I thought I would think out loud for a moment as to what we have in store and consider some of the questions to be answered…