Belgian youngster Luca Brecel today created history by defeating Mark King 10-8 and in the process ensuring that he will soon become the youngest ever player to play at the Crucible Theatre in a World Championship match. Though he has taken that record from Stephen Hendry, it has not been all bad for the Scot today as he too secured his place at the venue for a 27th successive season…
Following last night’s tremendous max from Mike Dunn, the actioned resumed today at the EISS as the likes of Rory McLeod, James Wattana and Andrew Pagett were among those to progress to the second round today. Click below for a summary on the opening two sessions of the day…
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…
After his revival of 2009/10 it has been a tough 12 months or so for 1997 world champion Ken Doherty but today he recorded his best win in some time as he overcome Scotland’s Stephen Maguire 5-2 in one of the day’s opening matches. Click for more on that and the day’s other action…
Congratulations to Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo who have today defeated Northern Irish duo Mark Allen and Gerard Greene 4-2 to win the revived World Cup tournament for China. Click below for more on that as well as my tournament reflections…
So we are down to two, from 3:30pm UK time the World Cup final will be contested between China and Northern Ireland after the two teams came through their semi-finals this morning against Wales and Hong Kong respectively…
World Snooker have today announced both the line-up and the match schedule for this year’s Wuxi Classic, the tournament won in 2010 by world number seven Shaun Murphy…
Welshman Matthew Stevens today became the final man to book his place in the winners group of this season’s Championship League with a 3-0 victory against Liang Wenbo. And what a winners group it is going to be…