The race for the final few main tour spots for next week is really hotting up now and this coming week sees the start of another major amateur tournament, the 2010 European Championships. Click below for more…
Category: Amateur
Kachaiwong Captures Asian Crown
Congratulations to Thailand’s Issara Kachaiwong who has today regained the Asian Championship crown that he first took back in 2006 and in the process ensured that he will return to the main tour for a third season among the professionals…
Lisowski heads PIOS top 8
Congratulations to 18-year-old Jack Lisowski who today won what looks like being the final ever event of the PIOS to confirm his promotion to the main tour and in doing so break Kuldesh Johal’s all-time points record. Click below to read who the other seven qualifiers are…
Davison and Chuang book main tour returns
Congratulations to both Liu Chuang and Paul S Davison who by winning the Asian U-21 Championship and PIOS Event 7 tournaments this week have ensured that they will both make an immediate return to the main tour next season having lost their place at the end of 2008/9.
You can see the full results from the two events over at Global here and here. Apologies for the lack of detailed reports, unfortunately time is short with the World Championship imminent.
Jones books tour place with European Success
Photo courtesy of Janie Watkins
Congratulations to Welsh youngster Jak Jones who defeated Scotland’s Anthony McGill 6-4 in the final of the European Under-19’s Championship yesterday to book his place on the main tour for the 2010/11 season. To read about how the 16-year-old managed to do it, click here for the full story over at Global Snooker.
PIOS 2009/10: Wilson Takes Event Six Title
Congratulations to 18-year-old Kyren Wilson who this week took his first PIOS event victory to move himself up to third in the rankings and almost certainly book his place on the main tour next season… Read More
Burden bags IBSF crown
Congratulations to Paddington’s Alfie Burden who earlier today won the 2009 IBSF World Championship with a 10-8 victory over Brazilian Igor Figueiredo. This means that he should become the second player after Thailand’s Noppon Saengkham to secure his place on the 2010/2011 main tour…
IBSF, PIOS and Premier League Snippets
The 2008 IBSF World Champion Thepchaiya un-Nooh
It has been a strange week so far on the snooker front in so far as very little has actually been going on, aside from the PIOS at Prestatyn. Still, I have managed to find a few topics to post on…