It’s going to be a late one in Sheffield. The third round of this first PTC event of 2011/12 began at 9am this morning and at the time of writing (11pm), the action continues. Click below for selected highlights from the day’s action.
Note that due to time constraints (and the lateness of the results), my projected seedings page will be updated at the conclusion of the event.
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…
As promised, here are a selection of my best photos so far from the 2011 Pink Ribbon tournament that is currently in progress at the Southwest Snooker Academy in Gloucester…
Saturday from the Academy and today will see the field cut from 64 to 16 as the rest of the top players enter the fray. Click below for updates and photos throughout the day…
So that’s a wrap from Crucible 2011 and as life slowly goes back to normal after a truly memorable 17 days both on a personal level and from the point of view of the sport, here are a few of my thoughts on that return to normality as well as a few thank yous to those who helped to make the week what it was…
Bit of an unusual one today (my regular blog will follow tomorrow during my rest day), but today I learned that Martin Gould is currently looking for footage of his recent run to the final of the PTC Grand Finals in Dublin.
He has tried Eurosport HQ but to no avail and so the best place to turn in such a situation is often to the fans, surely there is someone out there who was able to record the matches?
If that person is you then we should be grateful if you could please get in touch with me via my regular email address at prosnookerblog@gmail.com and hopefully we can get the footage on to Martin. To clarify he is looking for footage of all of his matches from the week so anything would be appreciated!
Day seven and today we learned the identity of this year’s first quarter-finalist as Mark Williams polished off a below part Jamie Cope to progress. Click below for a short blog of my day…
Day six from Sheffield saw the conclusion of the first round as well as the start of two of the last 16 matches, both of which could not have panned out more differently…