Three days in to the Wuxi Classic and we are down to the last 16 stage, with world champion Mark Selby the most notable casualty so far, not withstanding Ding’s qualifying exit last month in Gloucester.
Click below for a round-up of the main stories so far, as well as a reminder of all of the useful links to follow…
A few days ago, fellow blogger Snookerbacker flagged up his ‘ten to follow’ across the course of the ongoing 2014/15 season, which you can read here.
In the interests of bloggers solidarity…or something, I decided to chip in with my ten to keep an eye on next season and today ahead of the start of the Wuxi Classic tomorrow (usual links on the right), I thought I would expand upon that and detail my choices here…
A brief line of news that came out on World Snooker’s Twitter feed yesterday was that Swiss starlet Alexander Ursenbacher has been forced to withdraw from the upcoming Wuxi Classic due to visa problems…
Yesterday saw the conclusion of five days of qualifying matches in Gloucester for the 2014 Wuxi Classic and there was a mix of strong wins for the established names, as well as shocks at the South West Snooker Academy.
Click below for a round-up of the main stories from the event…
Five years ago following John Higgins’ victory at the 2009 World Championship at the Crucible, following a similar feature prepared by the BBC, I wrote a blog, predicting how the top eight of the world rankings would look in 2014.
Having been reminded of the article earlier during this year’s World Championship, now exactly five years on I take a look back at accurate my predictions were, all well as attempting to predict how the top eight will look in another five years in 2019…
Though Mark Selby’s World Championship victory may remain fresh in the memory, already amateur snooker has moved on at least with the start of the 2014 Q School, while the professionals will be back in action before the end of the month with the first qualifiers of the 2014/15 season in Gloucester.
Click below then for a few of my final thoughts on the events of the Crucible and talking points to have arisen from it…
As the dust settles on Mark Selby’s memorable World Championship victory at the Crucible Theatre, it’s time to look back on the best of my photos from this year’s tournament, including those of the venue, backstage and the people involved in the action…
Congratulations to Neil Robertson yesterday, who with a break of 101 finally completed his quest for his 100th century break of the season, a fantastic achievement and one that both seeing his celebration up close and listening to him in his post-match press conference, clearly meant the world to him.
But how exactly has he done it? Click below for a full breakdown of all 100 century breaks…