Today marks the first ‘middle Thursday’ of the World Championship where as is tradition, the first round will come to an end and the second round gets underway.
Now that we have seen all of the seeds in action, click below for a few impressions and thoughts about the tournament, with the field now almost halved since last Saturday…
Following eight days of qualifying and months of anticipation, the draw for the 2015 World Championship is now known and as was the case last year, former world number 3 and leading snooker analyst Neal Foulds has taken time out to cast his eye through the opening round ties and pick his players to watch at the Crucible this year.
Click below then to read this year’s bumper Crucible preview…
It did not always look like it was going to go his way, but Judd Trump has defeated Ronnie O’Sullivan 10-7 this evening to win the 2015 World Grand Prix in Llandudno, taking home the winner’s cheque of £100,000 and breaking his duck against the Rocket in major finals.
They did it in somewhat contrasting circumstances, but Judd Trump and Ronnie O’Sullivan both came through their semi-finals today in Llandudno to make it to the final of the new World Grand Prix.
Congratulations to Judd Trump, who has this evening lit up the Tempodrom in Berlin by making his second career maximum break during his quarter-final match with Mark Selby.
Day two of the German Masters and already we are at the conclusion of the last 32 stage, with world number one Ding Junhui one of four top 16 players to fall at the first hurdle in Berlin.
Click below for my round-up of the opening round action at the venue and confirmation as to why Ding will now lose the sport’s top ranking for a second time after the event…
Over the Christmas period I published my annual series of ‘best of’ polls, looking to find your best match, best player and most improved players of the 2014 calendar year and what a response I had here at PSB, as the awards received significantly more votes than ever before.
Click below then for a round-up of the results, including some of the best ‘other’ votes received…
With professional snooker all but over for another year, it is time again to begin my mostly-annual series of ‘best of’ polls for you to vote in.
First up, I consider what has been the best match of 2014 and offer my suggestions below, while you can also enter your own selection in the poll or comment section below…