Eight years after his breakthrough victory in Beijing, Ding Junhui has won his second full-ranking event title in his homeland China with a 10-6 victory against compatriot Xiao Guodong this afternoon.
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Xiao To Face Ding In Historic All-Chinese Final
For the first time, tomorrow will see an all-Chinese ranking event final between Ding Junhui and Xiao Guodong, after the pair came through their respective semi-finals against Barry Hawkins and Michael Holt earlier today.
Click below for more…
Shanghai Masters 2013: The Last 16
With the fallout from the Stephen Lee verdict still fresh in the air, it is easy to forget that there is a ranking event currently in progress as the third day of the Shanghai Masters saw the line-up for the last 16 finalised today.
Click below for a round-up of the key stories so far…
Cao Captures Gold In South Korea
Ahead of next week’s Australian Goldfields Open, there was success in South Korea today for China’s Cao Yupeng, who defeated countryman Ding Junhui to win the men’s singles event for snooker at the 2013 Asian Indoor Games…
Closing In On The Cut: July 2013
It might only be June in the 2013/14 season, but already the first seeding revision of the new campaign is fast approaching, with just two more events to come before the places are set for the Shanghai Masters.
While such seedings revisions will take on less significance in this new era of snooker, the Shanghai Masters remains one of the three ranking events to be played under the old system this season, this cut-off is one to keep an eye on.
Click below for a summary of who has to do what in Australia and Rotterdam, to secure a better seeding for Shanghai…
Australian Goldfields Open 2013: Qualifying Wrap
Hot on the heels of last week’s Wuxi Classic qualifiers at the South West Snooker Academy, the past five days have seen the early rounds of the 2013 Australian Goldfields Open tournament take place at the same venue.
Click below for my round-up of the key stories from the qualifiers, together with links to the results in full and latest projected seedings…
PTC Finals 2013: Draw Released, Xiao Replaces Lee
As posted over at snookerbacker.com this morning, yesterday saw the draw made for the 2013 PTC Grand Finals and contrary to the entry list posted recently, defending champion Stephen Lee will not be among the 32-man field, replaced instead by Xiao Guodong, as the next player down on the APTC Order of Merit.
Click here to see the line-up here at PSB, while you can also view the order of play here. The event will again be staged in Galway, starting on 12th March 2013.
I have also amended the latest projected seedings to reflect Lee’s absence, while they will be updated throughout today as the Welsh Open qualifiers continue at the EIS.
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…