Steve Davis and Ken Doherty both kept their places as directors of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association at the Annual General Meeting of snooker’s governing body in Sheffield today.
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International Championship 2012: Tournament Preview
This Sunday sees the start of the 2012 International Championship in Chengdu, arguably the biggest tournament ever to be staged in China and dubbed by some as snooker’s new fourth major.
As the final event before the season’s second seedings revision there is of course added importance for some players, as already detailed here, though with a top prize of £125,000, you can be sure that everyone will be doing everything that they can to win it…
UKPTC3: My Final Thoughts
Due to the recent blog downtime commencing during the UKPTC3 event in Gloucester, at the time I was unable to talk about my experience at the penultimate professional event to be staged at the South West Snooker Academy, so without further ado, click below for my belated thoughts from the tournament…
ET1: Doherty Ends Maximum Wait
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Congratulations to Ireland’s Ken Doherty, who today made the 90th maximum break in professional competition and the first of his 22-year professional career.
The max came during frame three of his 4-0 victory against Germany’s Julian Treiber, and provided it is not equalled during the remaining two days of the event, will earn the former world champion £1,500 from the rolling prize fund…
International Championship 2012: Qualifying Review
Over the last four days, the EIS in Sheffield has played host to the qualifying rounds of the inaugural International Championship tournament, arguably snooker’s newest ‘major’ given the significant amount of prize money and ranking points on offer. As a result, every match has counted but as far as headline stories are concerned, there is only one place to start, click below for my review of the action…
Ken Doherty Joins WPBSA Board
Ken Doherty, one of snooker’s most experienced players, has joined the board of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA)…
Crucible Diary 2012: Day One
Well what about that for an opening day at the 2012 World Championship? John Higgins has survived a real scare from Chinese number two Liang Wenbo, but unquestionably the highlight had to be Stephen Hendry’s 11th career maximum break which came during his match against Stuart Bingham this afternoon. Click below to read the first instalment of my daily blog from the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield…
World Championship Qualifying 2012: Doherty Edges Thriller, Chinese Duo Progress
Saturday evening saw the first six players book their places at the Crucible, with a further ten to follow this Sunday. Click below for a round-up of the day’s action with quotes from three of the qualifiers…